(photo J Conway)
These days with retirements and flex schedules it may not seem that important but it will always be seared in my memory, this importance of Friday. But maybe it was not always so and maybe it won’t be in the future.
There was a funny incident on Downtown Abbey one time involving the old mother, played by Maggie Smith?. You remember the time period was calling for more freedom for the workers. The maids and butlers were proposing that they would get some weekends off. And Maggie said, “What’s a weekend?”
I remember in the service we would have an inspection of us and the quarters before we could go off on our weekend. Of course we all had big plans. Our Commanding Officer was Captain Baer. He would show up in full dress uniform complete with saber. Geez! And most of the time he would like what he saw and we would pass and off we went on our glorious two days. I had a little VW then we put on an average of 1500 miles per week on the poor little thing. But every once in a while there would be something major out of place at the barracks and no one got to go anywhere. Tough Charlie about your plans. So we would say, “Sometimes you got the Baer and sometimes the Baer got you.”
So, I don’t know where that leaves us now except to say it is Friday today and some of us probably have big plans for the weekend. Now with Covid lifting folks are getting out. So the best to you, buckle up.
buckle up loves, Felipé.
Weekends are for people in normal jobs along with public holidays.when I worked for the railways we’d work any of the 7 days in a week on alternate shift patterns.the only days we always had off for sure where December the 25th and 26th..in someways it’s good as if you want to go somewhere you can go midweek and there by avoid the busier weekends.
Kevan ~ yea, the railroad runs 24/7. But the parties are on the weekends and maybe you have a weekend off once in a while. I have had my own business for years and I worked plenty of weekends. Thanks for checking in. Felipé.