Cute, if you could wave your magic wand and be rid of Monday's, then could you wave your magic want and be rid of the month of April? Then we would not have to stress out paying our taxes!
Be safe,
Karen
CJ, you've given expression to the grief of half the workforce in America.
Personally, I solved the problem entirely when I retired in 1991.
First is this: Because I don't leave the house and go to work anymore, I have nothing to fear of jolt-my-system Mondays.
Second: Because I love Saturdays even more than I used to like Friday nights, I've eliminated Fridays altogether. But I'm so accustomed to a 7-day week, I just have two Saturdays in every week.
Exception: During professional football season when the pros play on Sunday, I drop the extra Saturday in favor of two Sundays. That way I can watch sixteen pro games every Sunday-Sunday and never miss any of the action.
But then I had to factor in Monday Night Football. That proved to be no major problem because I didn't have to get up early Tuesday morning and go to work.
Then some TV marketing idiot thought up "Special Thursday Night Edition of Monday Night Football." But that proved to be no insurmountable problem of trying to wake up Friday mornings, either, because Friday mornings didn't exist any longer.
AND since there are only thirty-two pro football teams competing in sixteen weekly games, when they started conducting a Monday Night Football extravaganza, that reduced Sunday-Sunday games to thirty teams playing fifteen games.
AND with the advent of the Special Thursday Night Edition of Monday Night Football, that takes two more teams away from Sunday-Sunday, which means I only have to watch fourteen games on Sunday-Sunday. Stirring in the fact that I have a recording device on my TV, I can record one game which watching another, thus killing two birds with one footballxxxxx with one stone.
However, considering the average game last three full hours and no matter how I cut the football pie, I still have to schedule myself to watch sixteen games a week (times 3 hours each) means, let's see now...figuring...Yes! 48 hours of TV football a week.
That turns out to be no big problem because, first of all, I've got two Sundays to work with. So that means only fourteen Sunday-Sunday games divided by two days of Sunday-Sunday watching time, which equals only 7 games on Sunday1 and 7 games on Sunday2 (or 21 hours each Sunday). Heck sakes, that leaves at least three hours for sleep, honey-do's for my lady companion and a quick run through the sprinkler for a shower. (I get all sweaty with so much football, ya know.)
Then I remembered: There are four TVs in my house (if I include the TV that's built into my treadmill). Now, if I move the three other TVs into my office with the treadmill in the corner--that's where I should leave it parked, anyway--yeah! I can watch four games at once. That's 12 hours of TV football in only three hours! Am I cookin' or what?
Since I don't like Mondays either--but I don't have to leave the house for work on Mondays anymore--I can carry over any unwatched Sunday-Sunday game to Monday afternoon, grab a quick burger and beer and still be ready for MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!
With everything working out great, I thought I was really in heaven. Then some other idiot TV marketing guru came up with SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!
Now, I'm back at the drawing boards working up a new, more efficient TV football schedule.
Well, to make this long story only a mite longer, I finally solved everything. I mean "everything!" You know that bright red canoe I like to take out lake paddling? Yeah, you guessed it: I flooded my family room, drug my canoe inside and now I watch TV and paddle at the same time. Ain't that great? And, of course, you know how much that thrills my wife.
NOW, CJ, before your poet character starts changing Mondays around so there won't be any, perhaps you'd like to suggest my solution of "No Fridays, and doubling up Saturdays and Sunday-Sundays."
See? Poetic problem solved.
That'll be $500, please.
Oh, I already charged Kimmey Van Kooten $500 for solving her "too many kids problem," but she sold me some private information, so now I've got a check in the mail to her for $500. (I told her to be patient with the mail since I don't know her mailing address.) I know she'll be patient. Anyone with that many kids has been putting up with a lot for a lot of years.
Now, I'm going to load a new printing cartridge in my computer and go on to review your next poem. Gee, I'm just getting warmed up. And I know you're hanging on the edge of your seat waiting.
Or is that a rope in your hand and all you could think about is hanging someone?
My novel The Paradise of Revenge is 572 pages long. Now you know why it didn't stop at 350 or so.
Anyway, I love all you guys like crazy.
THE END.
Richard
Words and diagram go beautifully together, CJ, and capture a child's thoughts and meaning just so well. I like how you frame these sentiments within a child's world. I have a friend who wrote a poem which has also always stuck in my mind - about the HB lead pressing the name of a day into coloured sugar paper, marking the shape of tomorrow, holding the world in his hands. You speak to us adult children always, too! TY Kate xx
Kool write CJ
In our community
WE have a saying
"Every Day Is Saturday"
Then Again, we are all Retired
"but over whelmed with activities"
and I don't mean Bingo
WE only do that once a month
I know why they don't like Mondays, because they wake up with a belly ache from candy floss, ice cream and popcorn, filled chocolates bars, cup cakes and jelly beans, and that's a lot!!!!
Una bellissima poesia signora.
Georg
Reviewed by Michael Mathieu (Reader)
Reviewed on March 12, 2007
Great write,We'll just act as ther's no more monday's and see how it goes,Ha Ha
Children should love every day and if they don't, we must wonder why? I know adults say TGIF, but little children should not even think of the days of the week, but rather the joys of the moment.
Sorry, I guess I got carried away on the feelings your poem sparked. I've always heard that a good poem will ignite feelings, and yours certainly did. Thanks.
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Be safe,
Karen
Personally, I solved the problem entirely when I retired in 1991.
First is this: Because I don't leave the house and go to work anymore, I have nothing to fear of jolt-my-system Mondays.
Second: Because I love Saturdays even more than I used to like Friday nights, I've eliminated Fridays altogether. But I'm so accustomed to a 7-day week, I just have two Saturdays in every week.
Exception: During professional football season when the pros play on Sunday, I drop the extra Saturday in favor of two Sundays. That way I can watch sixteen pro games every Sunday-Sunday and never miss any of the action.
But then I had to factor in Monday Night Football. That proved to be no major problem because I didn't have to get up early Tuesday morning and go to work.
Then some TV marketing idiot thought up "Special Thursday Night Edition of Monday Night Football." But that proved to be no insurmountable problem of trying to wake up Friday mornings, either, because Friday mornings didn't exist any longer.
AND since there are only thirty-two pro football teams competing in sixteen weekly games, when they started conducting a Monday Night Football extravaganza, that reduced Sunday-Sunday games to thirty teams playing fifteen games.
AND with the advent of the Special Thursday Night Edition of Monday Night Football, that takes two more teams away from Sunday-Sunday, which means I only have to watch fourteen games on Sunday-Sunday. Stirring in the fact that I have a recording device on my TV, I can record one game which watching another, thus killing two birds with one footballxxxxx with one stone.
However, considering the average game last three full hours and no matter how I cut the football pie, I still have to schedule myself to watch sixteen games a week (times 3 hours each) means, let's see now...figuring...Yes! 48 hours of TV football a week.
That turns out to be no big problem because, first of all, I've got two Sundays to work with. So that means only fourteen Sunday-Sunday games divided by two days of Sunday-Sunday watching time, which equals only 7 games on Sunday1 and 7 games on Sunday2 (or 21 hours each Sunday). Heck sakes, that leaves at least three hours for sleep, honey-do's for my lady companion and a quick run through the sprinkler for a shower. (I get all sweaty with so much football, ya know.)
Then I remembered: There are four TVs in my house (if I include the TV that's built into my treadmill). Now, if I move the three other TVs into my office with the treadmill in the corner--that's where I should leave it parked, anyway--yeah! I can watch four games at once. That's 12 hours of TV football in only three hours! Am I cookin' or what?
Since I don't like Mondays either--but I don't have to leave the house for work on Mondays anymore--I can carry over any unwatched Sunday-Sunday game to Monday afternoon, grab a quick burger and beer and still be ready for MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!
With everything working out great, I thought I was really in heaven. Then some other idiot TV marketing guru came up with SUNDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!
Now, I'm back at the drawing boards working up a new, more efficient TV football schedule.
Well, to make this long story only a mite longer, I finally solved everything. I mean "everything!" You know that bright red canoe I like to take out lake paddling? Yeah, you guessed it: I flooded my family room, drug my canoe inside and now I watch TV and paddle at the same time. Ain't that great? And, of course, you know how much that thrills my wife.
NOW, CJ, before your poet character starts changing Mondays around so there won't be any, perhaps you'd like to suggest my solution of "No Fridays, and doubling up Saturdays and Sunday-Sundays."
See? Poetic problem solved.
That'll be $500, please.
Oh, I already charged Kimmey Van Kooten $500 for solving her "too many kids problem," but she sold me some private information, so now I've got a check in the mail to her for $500. (I told her to be patient with the mail since I don't know her mailing address.) I know she'll be patient. Anyone with that many kids has been putting up with a lot for a lot of years.
Now, I'm going to load a new printing cartridge in my computer and go on to review your next poem. Gee, I'm just getting warmed up. And I know you're hanging on the edge of your seat waiting.
Or is that a rope in your hand and all you could think about is hanging someone?
My novel The Paradise of Revenge is 572 pages long. Now you know why it didn't stop at 350 or so.
Anyway, I love all you guys like crazy.
THE END.
Richard
wonderful share!!!
Blessings,
Joselyn
Expository exegisis:) CJ.
Regards
Dai
Though, nowadays, I have no idea what day it is.
Elizabeth
In our community
WE have a saying
"Every Day Is Saturday"
Then Again, we are all Retired
"but over whelmed with activities"
and I don't mean Bingo
WE only do that once a month
Love & Peace
William
Reindeer
Hugs,Laura
Una bellissima poesia signora.
Georg
Michael
Love Tinka
George
loveya
Rusty
Sorry, I guess I got carried away on the feelings your poem sparked. I've always heard that a good poem will ignite feelings, and yours certainly did. Thanks.
For that matter we might as well get rid of Tues, Wed, Thur & Fri. also. (lol)