The New Calendar
December 29th 2006 00:25
Having spent the last few days wandering aimlessly in an abyss of call centres and the World Wide Web, desperate to connect with anyone willing to listen to my problems let alone interested in fixing them, I would like to propose a rethink of the existing calendar in order to eliminate the void between Boxing Day and New Years Eve once and for all.
Lets face it, apart from the retail frenzy, which accompanies the post Christmas sales, life during this period enters a temporary stasis anyway. Unfortunately all non-living things like computers, cars, telephones and god forbid, televisions, don’t creating an unwanted and precarious scenario, which I have experienced in the last few days as I’ve tried to repair my computer after an untimely breakdown.
Perhaps its all that time on hold to call centres desperately trying to appear open when they are clearly closed, but I think I have found a solution. Move Christmas! Yes, you’ve read it right, move Christmas!
For those who were kind enough to have read my last few posts you would know that Christmas isn’t exactly my most favourite time of the year and if it was up to me I’d get rid of it completely.
But I understand that such comments would place me directly in the firing line of these commercial giants so here’s my alternative:
December 28 – Christmas Day
December 29 – Boxing Day
December 30 – Post Christmas Sales Day
December 31 – New Years Eve
With some careful planning and a well-constructed hangover, you might even be able to sleep through Christmas and wake up in the New Year. And if anything breaks down on the 28th or 29th there is nothing like a bit of retail therapy on the 30th to help you forget all about it.
This reminds me, if something breaks down and there is no one at the manufacturers call centre to hear about it, is it really a breakdown?
Lets face it, apart from the retail frenzy, which accompanies the post Christmas sales, life during this period enters a temporary stasis anyway. Unfortunately all non-living things like computers, cars, telephones and god forbid, televisions, don’t creating an unwanted and precarious scenario, which I have experienced in the last few days as I’ve tried to repair my computer after an untimely breakdown.
Perhaps its all that time on hold to call centres desperately trying to appear open when they are clearly closed, but I think I have found a solution. Move Christmas! Yes, you’ve read it right, move Christmas!
For those who were kind enough to have read my last few posts you would know that Christmas isn’t exactly my most favourite time of the year and if it was up to me I’d get rid of it completely.
But I understand that such comments would place me directly in the firing line of these commercial giants so here’s my alternative:
December 28 – Christmas Day
December 29 – Boxing Day
December 30 – Post Christmas Sales Day
December 31 – New Years Eve
With some careful planning and a well-constructed hangover, you might even be able to sleep through Christmas and wake up in the New Year. And if anything breaks down on the 28th or 29th there is nothing like a bit of retail therapy on the 30th to help you forget all about it.
This reminds me, if something breaks down and there is no one at the manufacturers call centre to hear about it, is it really a breakdown?
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