One of the most amazing things happens each year on the 4th in the US. We celebrate the signing of the constitution - literally penning into creation a new country!
Each year, about a week prior, we start off with firework stands, star-spangled sales, and brightly colored, patriotic favors wending their way throughout our stores and down the streets. And yet...
AND YET!
Here I sit, at work, and I answer the phone at the local hospital, and take calls asking WHY the clinics are closed today?! I am absolutely amazed that, for all the professed "patriots" here in the area where I live, apparently they are completely oblivious to the 4th of July and the reasons that everything that is NON-ESSENTIAL to the hospital will be closed for the weekend... Why!!!?
Are they completely mental?
Is it that they are patriotic, unless it inconveniences them?
Honestly. Really. Let's think about this, here. If you are going to play the patriot card, then do it full blast. Don't wander around in red, white, and blue, spouting the first verse of the Star-Spangled Banner (because you can't remember the 2nd one), and then be confused because nothing is open!
Honestly, we don't actually have THAT many holidays that affect our daily lives. It's not THAT much of an inconvenience, as long as you learn to plan ahead. Especially with dr appointments. This is not a life-or-death issue. Don't act like it is. Life-and-death are allergic reactions, spurting blood, passing out, heart attacks, or other things which would immediately cause the quality (not to mention quantity) of life to be greatly reduced within the next half hour. Be real.
~M
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