Sunday Afternoons

I used to hate Sundays, I'll be honest. It was the day before I had to go back to school, the whole thing passes so quickly, and it just seems to drip with an air of doom, you can almost hear it ( Monday's coming, Monday's coming, Monday's coming) but now, I have come to truly appreciate a Sunday. It is the only day when we don't have to get up and go somewhere the minute we're awake. Saturday is great, don't get me wrong, but there is always so much to be done on a Saturday that the whole thing passes in a blur. But Sunday, ahh. I usually go to church on Saturday nights, so that leaves my whole Sunday stretched out like a gorgeous piece of beach that no one is on at the moment. It is paradise. Today I am enjoying my day but it wasn't always like that. There was a time when I had to go to the happiest retailer on earth for most of my Sundays. Why is it that Walmart who purports to be a family company, is so determined to keep associates' families apart on Sundays? Would it kill the biggest company in the world to be closed on this one day? Probably. But wouldn't that be a wonderful signal to the rest of society if Walmart were to give stores the option of being closed on Sundays so that their associates could spend the day with their families? I think so too. It's not going to happen, mind you. Store managers get very nice bonuses based on their sales, and the likelihood of them giving those up are akin to the odds of a pig at a Lu-Au. Slim and none. But it is a wonderful pipe dream isn't it? Of course, if communities put enough pressure on stores, say, by not shopping on Sundays, it wouldn't hurt either. Give it a try. See if you can't avoid Walmart on Sundays, and maybe other people could have the day off also. You'll thank me later.