Rescheduling Christmas

Let's make him a moving target

I'm of the generation that grew up with Lincoln's Birthday, Washington's Birthday, Veteran's Day, and so forth, scheduled as calendar holidays. No President's Day. No moving holidays here and there in order to achieve a 3 day weekend. No, if Washington's birthday was on a Wednesday then there would be no mail on that Wednesday. Period. Just as God intended.

We'll I'm over it. In fact I'm so over it that I am formally proposing that Christmas be tossed on the convenience heap. Having Christmas fall on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday does nothing for the collective social psyche. This past Wednesday, December 26th, no Christmas celebrant wanted to be at work. No one wanted to be sitting in a doctor's office (unless they really needed a Vicodin refill). No one wanted to be doing anything other than relaxing, cleaning up the house, and/or returning gifts. Everything was open but no one was interested.

So, in as much as Jesus probably was not born on December 25th anyway, (and even if he was, what the heck,we've asked our founding fathers to make concessions) let's get Christmas out of the way. Let's move Christmas to the third Friday in December. We can all work a half day on that Thursday and then have the 3 day weekend.  Three days to play and no glum faces on Monday.

Just think, retailers can ramp up Black Saturday sales. They can even start opening on Christmas night at 10 PM! Now that's getting in the spirit of the season!