What's So Bad About Mondays?
Garfield hates Mondays. So do the Mamas, the Papas, and even the Bangles. Monday is the butt of way too many jokes. Monday is underrated.
Fine, it's the first day back to work for the boring 9-5ers of the world (it's part of my weekend, generally, but I'm a different breed of cat), so those folks have one legitimate complaint. Other than force people who hate their jobs back to a new work week, what has Monday ever done to anyone?
Monday hasn't done anything to me since I graduated from high school. I welcome it. It's a time to let my voice heal from the weekend, it's a good laundry day, a good grocery day, an all around good errand day in general, as well as a good lazy day...
Then, every now and then, you get Monday this week. You think, "I'm gonna go to this comedy show. I don't know why it's on a Monday, but I'm not complaining. Myq Kaplan, and Zach Sherwin, and three of my friends are going to be on stage, and most of my other friends are going to be watching it. It'll be fun..."
But, you had no idea how fun... First of all, you look at the door, wonder if your friend, Mark Bentley, has arrived yet, and you walk to the door and open it. As you do, in walks Myq Kaplan who says to you, "Hi. I'm supposed to talk to somebody here..."
You're the first person in the place Myq has spoken to, and you're trying to contain the fact you're as giddy as a 14-year-old school girl who just got text messaged by Justin Bieber... You don't want him to know that, of course, so you just reply, "You're supposed to talk to Scott Eason. Let me find him for you. There he is."
So, you make your way back to your table, you let your giddiness out, and your friends raz you for a bit, but it's all in fun, and they're really happy for you. Then the show starts. It's funnier than you expected and, near the end, Myq addresses you from the stage, and then does a 10-minute improv bit just on you! You feel special that you're being roasted on the spot by such a big name...
Then, at the very end, Myq wants to do an epic rap battle with Zach, and he once again calls on you for the topic and does another ten minutes on your idea, which was Super Mario Bros., joined later by Ice Tea (the part of Ice Tea is played by Patrick Cunningham who, IMO, is better than the real Ice Tea).
And you're having quite possibly the best night you've had in over a year (which says a lot after the nights you had at the Coppertopia Roast Of Patrick Cunningham and the New Years show), but it's not over yet...
You meet Myq and Zach after the show and make friends with them! And you have the most amazing conversation you've had with a celebrity, even more amazing than the ones with Weird Al! They not only let you get your picture with them, but Myq even asks for your business card! Terra Jeffrey even says you should use that picture for your Facebook avatar...
And, so, on the drive home, you're afraid you're going to get pulled over for DUI. You imagine saying, "No, Officer, I'm not drunk. I'm high. On dopamine!" But, you still drive really careful because you know he won't believe you. After all, it's Monday. And everybody knows Monday sucks.
But, maybe this is all just me...
I've included the picture I referred to, and I'm gonna need a topic. So, tell me about the best Monday you've ever had.
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Master of the Fork
Originally Posted by Noire
Well, 8-5 actually. And as much as I'd love a job where I go "woohoo! Time for work!" those seem rather rare and so like many I am stuck disliking 5/7ths of my life but acknowledging it as necessarily for existing and for enjoying the other 2/7ths.
