A MEDITATION ON LABOR DAY ———— by Steve Nadis
This month’s featured Blog Title of the Month is “Things I Wonder About” (see link on right), which has a simple but effective formula: The author, “OldRoses,” lists in serial fashion the things she wonders about. But there are things I wonder about too, and this one seems particularly timely (and would have been even more timely had I posted it a few minutes earlier, but what the heck. I’m not punching a clock here…) But getting back to the thing I wonder about–or, in fact, one of the many things I wonder about (as I have an inquisitive, or should I say inquiring, mind)–which is this: How come they call it Labor Day when hardly anyone works? I might even ask how come they don’t call it “Goof Off Day,” were it not for the fact that I think I know the answer to that one. (They don’t call me “Bright Boy” for nuthin’.) The answer being: Who’s going to give someone a paid day off from work for “Goof Off Day” or “Screw Around Day” or “Screw Around Month” for that matter, unless, of course, you have one of those no-show jobs like President of the United States?
Posted by in 05:09:10
The way you worked that thing in about the President, that was what they call a cheap shot. Or maybe a sucker punch. Well, I’m not sure what they call it, but it was definitely below the belt. And if it was not below the belt, it was definitely not aboveboard. Let’s just say it was somewhere between below the belt and belowboard, and leave it at that. This I believe.
Why thanks Burt for the compliment. I couldn’t have put it more coherently if I tried.
Thanks for the plug and the link! Isn’t Labor Day one of those commie holidays celebrating the working man (person?) by giving him a day off from working? I’m surprised the Republicans haven’t gotten rid of it or replaced it with something more patriotic like Filthy Rich People Day.
Thanks for the note. You could be right (or should I say left) about commie day. I’ll remember to wear pink next year.
Or perhaps it started as a day of recognition for all the pain women go through in child birth.
That’s an intriguing possibility, not to belabor the obvious.