Sundays

I remember in the UK in the Seventies EVERYTHING used to be shut. All the shops, pubs etc. Sundays really used to drag. All you had to do was wait for school or work the next day. And get dragged along to a boring church service and Sunday school if you were really unlucky. Now it's just another free day unless you work weekends. Do you pack much into a Sunday, or kick back after Saturday night? A pub lunch and a walk can be nice. Or just wandering around town, meetings friends for a coffee. I don't do much shopping apart from food. Not a fan of retail therapy. I have to admit housework comes last on the list. But I do like to get out of the house.

Here's Morrissey moaning about how Sundays used to be:

 

sunday used to be beach day for me, but my primary beach-going friend got a job where he works every sunday. and since around here everything is still closed on sundays, i pretty much just spend the day at home playing video games or something like that. assuming i don't have to work of course.

 

sundays are the worst for public transportation, for reasons that are not good, and the fault of the culture.

i would imagine, where there is a different religion that has a different day, it would be that other day.
i was once active in one, who's day was once every 19.
and then there are some who go by phases of the moon.

being retired, other then the bus, one day is the same as another.
i don't go for that day of the week having to be a way for that day.

when i was little growing up, my dad's weekends tended to be in the middle of the week.
it depended on which shift he was working. two days in a row came with all of them,
but different shifts had different days off.

i liked that, so i grew up with it seeming normal to me.
everyone wanting to work the same hours and days, does not.

 

sunday sessions

 

Some of us remember:-

• Half day closing for shops on Wednesday's too,
• Bank Holiday saw all shops closing - and late night shopping meant somebody forgot the time
• ((Not to mention, Pubs (with their food fare being pork scratching, crisps and peanuts on the bar) opening at 12 mid-day, closing at 3 PM, (Early doors) re-opening 6 PM until closing 10:30 PM Sun to Thursdays (11 PM Fri/Sat).))

- It is certainly a lot more convenient these days although I have to make the observation that it mean a loss of economic discipline, - you bought what you needed and waste of grocery items were a lot less
((Not to mention the lack of Community liaison - when Public houses was the main point of social interaction))
- Too often these days it is the case where one doesn't have to leave the house for Shopping, Entertainment and Social interaction (all done through IT)
But on the other hand, Sundays should be a time of freedom were family gatherings, walks, sports and other things of personal interests can take place because of this.
Sadly, in a lot of cases- that I am aware of, there is a waste of opportunity to do so, it seems the words of ex British Prime Minister of yester-year Harold MacMillan -"You've never had it so good" is relevant - what once were deemed luxuries are now looked at as necessities - although in truth how can later generations understand such(?)

 

Morrissey is such a wanker fag.

I do love a good Smiths tune tho.

 

i wish these kinds of things were still just a memory where i live too. oh sure, the casinos are open 24/7, but big deal, what good is that?

sorry it doesn't feel like freedom, but the exact opposite, to have reductions in the availability of public transportation or being able to get to a store.

everyone should have two consecutive days off every week, at least, but everyone doesn't have to have the SAME two.

if we didn't have this cultural nonsense of everyone wanting to work the same hours and days, we wouldn't have rush hour traffic,
and everyone would be able to shop leasurely on their days off, if people took turns having them (instead of having to have unemployed partners to do this for them, or rush to do so on their ways home, exausted from work and thinking poorly, which is how corporate greed wants us all to be, so it can keep its hands in our pockets).

if you live some place where all this has changed, great, i'm still a prisoner of an american culture where it hasn't.

 

I'm okay with everything being closed on Sundays (it isn't though).

Everything you need to do or buy, you can do on Saturday.

Sundays are for resting.

And family and church, if you're into that.

 

unless you're at work all day on saturday too.

 

Also, going to malls on Sundays is the worst.

 

Yeah, I forgot about that

 

Interesting.
I wasn't aware some places are/used to be like that.

 

I like having a coffee and checking out vinyl in milk crates.