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Except this year, as you may have noticed, the 4th falls on a Saturday anyway, so to make up for it they decided to take Friday off instead and run the 3rd on a Saturday schedule. And lots of people got the 3rd off anyway, because the 4th falls on a weekend.
So far so good, and the pizza place confirmed when I stopped in yesterday that Thursday was packed "like Friday usually" because, of course, lots of people are taking advantage of the de facto three day weekend.
I have no problem with any of this, but I draw the line at referring to Friday as "Independence Day (observed)" as so many signs did when informing us of schedule changes and the like. You can't do that. It's not like Memorial Day or Columbus Day or something. It's the Fourth of freaking July. The third isn't "observed" anything, it's just lagniappe.
Text from Superheroes for the occasion.
On a more serious note, fireworks can upset veterans who have PTSD. I hadn't thought of that before, but it makes sense. From now on, whenever it comes up, I don't need to defend myself, I can just say that fireworks are not patriotic. Do well by doing good, that's my motto.
So far so good, and the pizza place confirmed when I stopped in yesterday that Thursday was packed "like Friday usually" because, of course, lots of people are taking advantage of the de facto three day weekend.
I have no problem with any of this, but I draw the line at referring to Friday as "Independence Day (observed)" as so many signs did when informing us of schedule changes and the like. You can't do that. It's not like Memorial Day or Columbus Day or something. It's the Fourth of freaking July. The third isn't "observed" anything, it's just lagniappe.
Text from Superheroes for the occasion.
On a more serious note, fireworks can upset veterans who have PTSD. I hadn't thought of that before, but it makes sense. From now on, whenever it comes up, I don't need to defend myself, I can just say that fireworks are not patriotic. Do well by doing good, that's my motto.
