Monday, November 23, 2009

My Holiday!

This is a good one! I thought about it for a few days, and one of my ideas stands out way over the other ones! My holiday is this:

It takes place one day a year, between in close proximity to the christmas season. It has two rather outrageous components: The first is a complete reversal between daytime and nighttime activities for one 24 hour cycle: All but the most essential of services and businesses will be closed during the day on a particular friday, but rather than celebrate and be proactive like on a christmas or thanksgiving, we are encouraged to rest for the coming night. Once the sun starts to set, all businesses, restaurants, shops will proceed to open as usual and people will carry on with their usual routine from the hours of about 6pm till around 4am. Then, as the sun starts to rise on Saturday morning, as the bars and nightclubs will open for business, all major telecommunications companies will temporarily shut down the use of the internet except for those that have filled out a painful 38-page form in triplicate requesting a special exemption for business or emergency use. The spiritual crux of the holiday will be for people to gather with friends and family for these reverse-night-morning hours and LEAVE YOUR CELL PHONE AT HOME. It's not that crazy, 1996 didn't feel like the stone age when you lived through it, did it? Anyone caught with a phone will be chastised, and ribbed and humiliated. Perhaps for a few brief hours, people might stop worrying about what they could be doing and just do something... like have a conversation with friends without checking and writing text messages every 15 minutes. Just a thought.

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