I think it was the Boomtown Rats who once penned a cheerful song about a child who went on a massacre in her school and when asked she said simply'because I don't like Mondays'. This is of course an extreme reaction to not liking a day, however I do no like Sundays. The first problem with Sunday is that it is the waiting room for the first day of the working week, so it nags at you all day. The second thing is that there is nothing to do if you can't be bothered to go for a pub lunch. I always found the worst aspects of my life were always amplified on Sunday. Friday for example is not on Sunday's radar, television is so poor as it is full of people selling antiques that they hope are worth millions and then being told that your Aunty Ethel's Toby jug is worth 50p, get over it. (Poor sod has spent over 100 quid just to bring it down to be valued) Songs of Praise is another bugbear. It is clear half of the congregation are only there because they are on the television, the church next week will go back to its usual state of affairs, like the away end of a football match between Rochdale and Accrington Stanley. Then Midsomer murders, the smallest village in the Western Hemisphere, yet they never run out of people to murder. The Colonel always gets murdered for his rare stamp collection, why does the sight of a first class stamp send laid back villagers into out of control murderers?
Anyway I have worked out that on Sunday in three weeks time I will have endured 16200 Sundays and if I live to 90 this will be over 30,000 sundays, of roast dinner, rubbish television and innane boredom. My idea is that we should have a day of the week schedule that goes mon, tue, wed, thur, fri, sat, sat, and back to Monday. The only people who like Sundays are the sort of people who listen to Classic FM because they like the lyrics, yes you see it makes no sense.
John
Aw, John! Sundays are my lazy days! Hectic week at work, social fun and late nights on Fridays and/or Saturdays and then lazing around on Sunday reading, watching TV without guilt, not making any specific meals. I do force myself not to think of the week ahead until 05:20 on Monday morning when I get up for the worst day of the week ;)
ReplyDeleteI suppose i am just being a very negative person Jane. I know when in school and teachers say thank God it is Friday, I tell them they should be saying Thank God it is Monday. I suppose Sundays remind me of my childhood, no shops open, early to bed and not a proper tea (I think they call it dinner these days)
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