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I noticed a while ago that even retired people look forward to the weekend. Why?
You have all week to do anything you want, why is the weekend special?
Full disclosure: I was always self-employed and weekends never meant ANYTHING to us because we worked 6 days a week and sometime Sundays. Only Sunday morning was non-working and we didn't go to church lol.
I'm just curious whether people get in the habit of "weekends" being for fun or there is a deep psychological reason for TGIF and then looking forward to Saturday. Seems like there would be fewer crowds eating out on Monday-Tuesday-etc...Or maybe people like being out when everyone else is out.
Weekends mean nothing to me since I retired. The only way I even notice it's the weekend is because the neighbors are home, shooting their guns. It's quiet during the week when the neighbors are at work, so weekdays are what I look forward to these days, not the weekend.
Weekends are the days I tend to stay home, away from the crowds and the traffic. There are a few scheduled events on the weekend that I occasionally participate in, but not often. So, I guess the weekends are STILL somewhat my days off to rest, but to rest from running around having fun rather than from resting from a tiring and tedious JOB.
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