Everybody's Working For The Weekend

I'm thankful for the people that work weekends when I need something, but I do not like working weekends. Thankfully, I have a job that only requires this about once every six months. I firmly believe that weekends are for relaxation, but I'm glad that retail places are open so I can get what little shopping I do done.

I actually remember the days when businesses were closed on Sundays. Restaurants opened so you could take your family out to dinner or people from church would gather for dinner with you. You could go to the grocery store between noon and 5pm, too. Everything else was closed. It was great knowing this because you had a day just to do nothing but spend with friends and family.

Now everyone feels they have to do business every single day of the week and it has helped ruin a lot of families and taken away from the values many of us hold dear. I'm grateful for the Fareway grocery store that closes for Sunday. I'm grateful for the financial institutions that close on Sunday and keep short days if they are open at all on Saturdays. I'm hopeful that it's still possible for our country to get back to that sort of thing. There are more important things than working 7 days a week.

Just a quick story from where I currently work. There was a guy that called the Help Desk for assistance on an early Saturday afternoon. He happend to get someone who was on-call at their home to help him out. While the on-call person was logging on to his laptop, he asked where the caller was from. This caller was from California and started describing what a beautiful day it was. Our on-call person asked him what he was doing indoors on such a beautiful day when he could be enjoying a day like that with his family. Before our on-call person could finish logging in, the caller said the on call person was right and he said to forget the assistance because he was going to go enjoy the day as suggested. At least he was able to realize that his priorities were out of whack and he straightened them out.

Will the rest of the country ever realize this? Is there a petition we can sign to bring back the blue law?