OK. So most everyone gets Sundays off. Except priests. But I’m not a priest. And that doesn’t mean I automatically get Sundays off.
So I get to figuring. Lent is forty days. Of sacrifice. But if you actually count the days from Ash Wednesday (when Lent begins), to Easter Sunday (when Lent ends), it’s not 40 days. It’s 46 days. And why is that? Because everyone gets Sundays off in Lent. So why shouldn’t I? Why do I have to write 100 words on a Sunday?
Because I said I would write 100 words a day.
So here they are.
It used to be mainly workers in emergency and essential public services that didn’t get Sundays off – police, firemen, hospital workers, public transport and the like. Now everyone is scared that if they aren’t open on Sundays profits will fall, and shopping malls often have a clause in their leases saying that tenants must open on Sundays.
I know this isn’t what you were getting at, but I thought it was worth mentioning.
Steve, thanks for your input. Yes, isn’t it incredible how things have changed? It’s a real killer for smaller retailers in the malls – increase your wagebill or lose out on family life.
I find it charming that there are still shops in big cities that close every day at lunch time. (Except when I forget, and arrive on their doorstep at lunch time.)