Arlo: It's over 3 months from Washington's birthday to Memorial Day!
Arlo: It is, by far, our longest period with no holiday!
Janis: So?
Arlo: So, where's the outrage?!
What about Mother’s day? We just celebrated it. Every month has a holiday except August. Not all are days off, and some are barely acknowledged, but they are there. In the US this is.
In Nebraska we have Arbor Day… Schools have Easter or Spring Break. Arlo and Janis must live in one of those progressive, sophisticated places where no one gets to have fun.
Curiously we also have a long stretch without a long weekend from the Queen’s birthday on the 2nd Monday in June through to Melbourne Cup (the horse race that stops a nation) on the first Tuesday in November. But that’s winter; three months without long weekends over Spring/Summer is daft.
I’ve been outraged by this for years, Arlo. Almost all of the work holidays are during the cold months of October through February yet during the spring, when we are all itching from spring fever, there is not a single work holiday.
Stray over 8 years ago
You didn’t get Easter as a holiday?
Olddog1 over 8 years ago
Arlo works?
carlosrivers over 8 years ago
some people get good friday off
Varnes over 8 years ago
We’ll call it Arlo’s Day…..
Red Phantom over 8 years ago
What about Mother’s day? We just celebrated it. Every month has a holiday except August. Not all are days off, and some are barely acknowledged, but they are there. In the US this is.
dvoyack over 8 years ago
How about St.Patrick’s Day, Easter, Mother’s Day.
warhamster52 Premium Member over 8 years ago
Those aren’t federal holidays, I suppose.
djlupfer Premium Member over 8 years ago
Massachusetts has Patriot’s Day in April, always on a Monday and the day of the Marathon. Move to MA, Arlo!
water_moon over 8 years ago
That must be why the drinking holidays (st. pat’s & cinco de mayo) are so popular. The younger set has spring break, too.
DDrazen over 8 years ago
Why doesn’t he count Cinco de Mayo?
LaRue Manning Premium Member over 8 years ago
How about Easter and Passover?
Rwill over 8 years ago
We need to get one of those Golden weeks.
J. Krysl over 8 years ago
In Nebraska we have Arbor Day… Schools have Easter or Spring Break. Arlo and Janis must live in one of those progressive, sophisticated places where no one gets to have fun.
eepeqez over 8 years ago
Curiously we also have a long stretch without a long weekend from the Queen’s birthday on the 2nd Monday in June through to Melbourne Cup (the horse race that stops a nation) on the first Tuesday in November. But that’s winter; three months without long weekends over Spring/Summer is daft.
pearlsbs over 8 years ago
I don’t get presidents day off, but I do get Good Friday off.
bryan42 over 8 years ago
I’ve been outraged by this for years, Arlo. Almost all of the work holidays are during the cold months of October through February yet during the spring, when we are all itching from spring fever, there is not a single work holiday.
Let’s move Columbus Day to April!
hippogriff over 8 years ago
Llywus42Or make April 1 a holiday to celebrate all the fools looking for a holiday to celebrate instead of working to end the abundance of injustices.
Ralph Newbill over 8 years ago
Easter, Arlo, Easter….
Rrhain over 8 years ago
For the 10 federal holidays, 7 of them are within four months of each other:
Columbus Day, Veteran’s Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas, New Year’s, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and President’s Day.
That leaves Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day for the other 8 months.