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I had a whole weekend off about a month ago so my girlfriend spent it over at my place. I was sick and not able to do much. Sunday rolled around and I had to take her home. We put it off until about 10:30 at night, but she did have to get back because she had to work the next morning. I was sad because it felt like the whole weekend had been pissed away. I told her how I have never liked Sundays. She said it’s because Sundays are for goodbyes.
 
She is right. Almost nothing good comes of Sunday, God forgive me. As a child, my parents were divorced. Sunday meant leaving the fun weekend spent with one parent to return to the boring monotony of life with the other. It also meant a return to school. Vacations always end on Sundays, whether work or school. I have no fond memories of the last day of any Summer Vacation as a child, and they always fall on Sundays. Even as an adult, vacations always end on the same day of the week because most people work the conventional Monday-Friday job. Both Labor Day and Memorial Day are on Sundays. Mother’s and Father’s Days are on Sundays. Explosive fun and then back to the grind. Ugh.
 
As an adult myself, I can’t think of how many times during college where I was sitting at my computer writing a paper all day on a Sunday. Sure, to some Sunday equals football. To me, it just reminds me that baseball season is over and that depresses me even more.
 
TV sucks on Sundays. Megachurch telecasts all morning, and then pure shit TV at night. Al has a couple of old David Letterman clips from the 1980’s. As a kid, I lived for Johnny Carson and David Letterman when I stayed up late during vacations. There was no TiVo, or DVDs, or Internet to past the time, only a handful of television channels. Back then, on Sunday nights, there was sometimes literally nothing on a channel besides a test pattern. You’d be lucky if news played all night, especially if you didn’t have cable. Back then, before Fox or even when Fox was new, all the Big Three stations would play some crappy Movie of the Week from 9-11PM on Sundays.
 
While we do have many more choices nowadays, Sunday night TV still goes to shit after the 11 o’ clock news. Sports bloopers and infomercials. Actually, that’s about how it was when I was a kid.
 
I remember when I had Sundays and Mondays off while in the army in Germany. It meant that I couldn’t get a haircut on either of my days off. Barbershops are closed Sundays.

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