The stupid question thread.....

i do consider this a stupid question, because for me it stumps me every time i see it, as if it taunts me to get angry at it with my former frames of mind. but i just sit back and be amazed each friday that i am trapped within it, my car and it's cool/heat/music offerings, my only saving graces.

why is it (now this is about a town where i work, which i see everyday, which is small virginia compared to the dc/northern va towns, but i'm sure the same rule applies there as it does here) that on fridays, everyone appears to have come out from under their perspective rocks to be there, where you are and where you are going, all day and in every way? but only on fridays. as if they exist on mon. through thur. of the work week and only will bring out the kin on the last day before weekend. lunch no matter which restaurant you choose is busier than mon. through thur. normal, the roads are of course a nightmare and not just at "anything past three thirty," 7-11's are so backed up with that one cashier in the stockroom not paying attention to the other register that sometimes you can't get into the parking lot. my partner says that i am mentally incapacitated in the fact that it is simply explained by the point that more people are preparing for the weekend and being excited about this thing going on all day called "friday." the mystical day of the week. somehow i don't buy that it brings people out of the woodwork as if by some ancient native american ritual after the rain was gone which is still holding root to the people.

Well, if this helps my wife works a 4 day/10 hours per day work week so is off Fri/Sat/Sun which is what a fair number of companies are doing these days…..maybe there's just more people out and about on Fridays because they're not in work? A lot of people also like to leave work early on Fridays.

ever circling skeletal family, i do so enjoy your thread.

new post per question

1. why is religion such a invisible security blanket, respected by nearly all walks of human life? and do other species of animals have religion?

2. when people add the question, "how are you doing?" to the basic address of "hello," fully expecting some sort of update, does that symbolize their (who asked) need to latch onto someone else's "more interesting" life?

3. if the republicans come at it as republicans, and the democrats come at it as democrats, then how can you solve any of our problems when you are "divided" from the get go?

Originally posted by walkonby:

why is it (now this is about a town where i work, which i see everyday, which is small virginia compared to the dc/northern va towns, but i'm sure the same rule applies there as it does here) that on fridays, everyone appears to have come out from under their perspective rocks to be there, where you are and where you are going, all day and in every way? but only on fridays….

Coming from a small town I'm guessing that they're living paycheck to paycheck and eagerly awaiting payday, which is of course every Friday there. Come Friday they're sick of staying in and being broke so they live it up for a day or two….then the cycle begins again.

Now that I've moved to the "city" I'm still trapped in the same cycle there's just more money involved and 14 days between paychecks.

Originally posted by walkonby:
when people add the question, "how are you doing?" to the basic address of "hello," fully expecting some sort of update, does that symbolize their (who asked) need to latch onto someone else's "more interesting" life?

I've always wondered why some managers ask you "how's it going?" or "how are you doing" when in reality they're not asking about your wellbeing, they're just asking "how's your work coming along?"