Quote Originally Posted by sparks19 View Post
I have never had anyone get upset that I didn't acknowledge their holiday but apparently others have had that experience. I have also never had anyone get mad for an seemingly inappropriately worded acknowledgement of their holiday either but apparently those people also exsist. It does take all kinds.

All kinds of sayings out there. I don't really live my day to day life based on quote snippets. I just go day to day trying to be as kind as I can to others.
I don't think it the idea of not acknowledging a day, it's more about the way that people have missed the true meaning of the 'holiday'.

When I worked and was part of a union, the holidays became a way to get time off or extra pay.

Between a three day weekend or double time and a half, it became a fight between employees to get one or the other.

A night shift on a holiday - back in the day - was pretty lucrative. If you earned 10 bucks an hour and a 35 cent incentive for the evening shift?

If you had a family, no amount of money could make up for time away from them.

The one thing I learned from doing a holiday shift was you really didn't benefit from the extra money, the gov't. taxed the crap out of it anyway.

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My peeve as time has gone by, is the fact that people DO NOT KNOW ANYTHING about holidays.

Another great example is St. Patrick's Day.

While not a general holiday, the Catholic religion used to emphasize remembering the Saints.

Hokay,

But why did it turn into a day where people dress in green, wear buttons "Kiss me, I'm Irish" and get shiat faced drunk?

Same with Cinco de Mayo.

So, now we get into the three day weekend deals.

Once upon a time, we used to commemorate 'holidays' on the day they happened.

Now we lump president's days together, make it a three day weekend and grill dead meat, get sunburned and come back to work on Tuesday with not a whit of ambition. No one cares about dead presidents.

Unless we get a day off or a piece of paper with their picture on it.

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I am not against celebrating anything for anyone, any religion or anything.

It's just the way we have lost the meaning of any holiday.