last time I checked, Sunday was a day in the week

[Computer_God]

Just thought of something that irks me. People ask our hours all the time.

We're open six days a week - every day but Monday.

And when asked, that's what I say: we're open every day of the week except Monday.

Here's a conversation I typically have 6 or 7 times a week:

me: we're open every day except Monday. (let's assume it's a Friday)
SC: I'll try to bring my computer in tomorrow. If I can't make it, I'll be here Tuesday.
me: you won't be around on Sunday?
SC: Oh - you're open Sunday?
me: (for the thousandth time) yes - we're open every day of the week except Monday.

sigh. sometimes I think we should just close Sundays, too (it would be nice to have 2 days off instead of 1 - one of the downsides of owning your own business) but you know if we did, people would complain: "oh - I thought you were open Sundays."

[Bramblerose]

Understood. I once gave a spelling test (school and age withheld for all kinds of reasons) where the final was write the days of the week. It was depressing how many kids only wrote down five.

After I collected them, I pointed out the week had *7* days, and got a class of "D'oh!"

It's teh only blue law I miss.

[LifeCarnie]

Understood. I once gave a spelling test (school and age withheld for all kinds of reasons) where the final was write the days of the week. It was depressing how many kids only wrote down five.

After I collected them, I pointed out the week had *7* days, and got a class of "D'oh!"

It's teh only blue law I miss.

That's a trick question though.

There are only five week days, Saturday and Sunday are prodominately referred to as weekend days.

If you really want to blow people's minds, try using "business days" as a term.

[LibraryLady]

I get this all the time. I work in a Museum Library. We're open to the public on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 10 AM to Noon and from 1 PM to 4:30 PM. People just don't get it. They ask our hours. I tell them when we're open and 9 times out of ten the caller will say, "O.K. I'll be there 2 PM on Saturday."

We explain things carefully. We're not open on Weekends. We're open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 10 AM to noon and from 1 PM to 4:30 PM.

"OK" the caller says, "I'll be there at 9 AM on Monday."

We're not open on Monday or Tuesday or Saturday or Sunday. Lather, rinse, repeat and still, they don't get it.

"You really make it hard for working people to get to your Library, don't you?"

Well yes, perhaps we do. Like you, we're people who have homes and families to go to. We also have our own interests when our work is done. We're not going to be at your disposal whenever you want us. We don't sleep on a vacant shelf in the stacks. If you want to do research you have to adapt your schedule to ours.

Most researchers seem able to make the adjustment but there are the unchosen few who refuse to listen.

[greensinestro]

Understood. I once gave a spelling test (school and age withheld for all kinds of reasons) where the final was write the days of the week. It was depressing how many kids only wrote down five.

After I collected them, I pointed out the week had *7* days, and got a class of "D'oh!"

It's teh only blue law I miss.

It's kind of like the trick question, "How many months have 28 days?", and most would answer "One, being February." All of the months have 28 days. When I was asked this in my tenth grade Algebra class as an extra credit question, I of course missed it, and from that day on, have always remembered to answer it correctly.

[draftermatt]

It's kind of like the trick question, "How many months have 28 days?", and most would answer "One, being February." All of the months have 28 days. When I was asked this in my tenth grade Algebra class as an extra credit question, I of course missed it, and from that day on, have always remembered to answer it correctly.

Well that is a trick question. Asking someone "Write down the names of the days in a week" isn't. If it asked "Write down the names of the week days" it would be.