Public Holidayay!!

Public holidays are grand things! Marked out carefully on calendars and watched by reddened, stress-filled eyes as they come closer and closer to breaking the monotony and releasing us from our constraints for 24 hours of blessed freedom!

I will admit I seldom actually take notice of what the day is supposedly celebrating:- Youth Day, Woman's Day, Baboon's Backside Day... it's all good my side as long as I get the holiday and all it's perks! This might seem a bit apathetic but I like to think my joy and blissful state still add to the world's karmic bounty as a whole, sort of like a Get-out-of-jail-free card!

One of the best parts of a public holiday is being able to sleep late! Remember that? Where no alarm clocks are involved and the city won't go into crisis because you caught an extra 40mins REM time? Of course you never do get the extra Z's because you always wake up normal time anyway, (you pre-programed robot you!), or get squashed beneath pets demanding breakfast, kids demanding breakfast or a partner demanding, well, sometimes breakfast...

I do remember once, back in my day when dinosaurs roamed and unicorns frolicked, how a public holiday used to be a BIG THING!!! You had to do your shopping the day before because all the shops would be closed up tighter then a ninja's fist, and if you suddenly ran out of toilet paper you had to hope either your neighbours were the giving sort or that you had the bowel-muscle control of a God!

Back then we didn't plan to sit around talking to friends and drinking beer! A public holiday was time to do chores about the household that hadn't you hadn't managed to get around to yet! Then the public holiday dawned and we spent it mostly talking to friends and drinking beer.
Some traditions have stood the test of time.

But still! Regardless of how you spend the day, at the end of it all you still get to sit back and relax and know you managed to pull one off over "The Man!" (Even if technically 'He' let you have this holiday and you really don't get a say in the matter. Technicalities are overrated.)

So here's to public holidays and all the glorious inactivity they inspire!
Happy Baboon's Backside Day!!
CHEERS!!!