You would think it was Christmas Eve in Honolulu. Traffic is backed up, stores in Ala Moana Center are packed, restaurants are booked. Blame it on another holiday designed to part people from their money.
It’s not that there’s no pleasure in chocolate, or a card from an admirer, or dinner out. What are they tied to a particular holiday? Can it be that we’re so insensitive that we require a calendar to tell us when and how to be nice to loved ones?
Not that I have a problem with an extra day off here and there, but look at the majority of publicly celebrated holidays. Each of them cause money to leave the pocketbook, or, in the case that there’s no money to begin with, cause charges to be added to credit cards.
However you look at it, holidays mean that you have less money than before. Valentine’s Day, though not Christmas or Mother’s Day or Thanksgiving, is no exception.
Even President’s Day is so commercial that nobody except middle school kids discuss the presidents. Everyone else is heading for a sale at the mall. Labor Day? Memorial Day? July 4th? Sales and food and picnics and travel.
Discoverer’s Day seems rather lonely and nondescript, except for all the Discoverer’s Day or Columbus Day sales at the mall. Hardly anyone heads out to dinner to celebrate discovering anything.
Our population is aging rapidly, so maybe there needs to be a national Seniors Day, where you have to take someone older than you to dinner.
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