I Hate Sundays but Love Thursdays

[Joneslab]

I'm about to admit something insane to you. Don't judge me too harshly.

I have always hated Sundays. I don't like them at all, the feel of them, the mood they set...unless I don't have to work the next day. (And even then I'm still not a huge Sunday fan.)

It's one reason I don't like the NFL. I just don't do Sundays. I think it's a feeling left over from being a kid and dreading a new school week, but whatever the reason I just wake up with a bad feeling and go to bed with that same feeling. One of my worst memories of a kid is being with a friend of mine in a Walmart really late on a Sunday night. Whenever I think of that I feel queasy and nervous.

All that said, I love Thursdays. I like coming to work on Thursday and I especially like evenings. I enjoy being out on Thursday nights. There's a certain feel that a Thursday has, and it's strange that I almost like Thursdays more than Fridays.

So how weird is this?

[Matt Dillon]

Very weird, in my opinion, Will.

[KevinHall]

Very Weird. I can relate on Sundays. First part of Sunday is great. But as the day wears on and the realization of new work week is looming makes it a very dreading day.

[surveyor]

I can sort of understand regarding Sundays and the mood it sets - on that I agree. However, I LOVE Sundays for NFL football. I count the hours and minutes to when the NFL season starts.

I agree for the most part regarding Thursdays. When I was younger, Thursday and Friday nights were the best nights to go out drinking after work. Now, it's viewed as the last night before Friday, there's good programming on Wednesday nights that I DVR and save for Thursday.................AND there's NFL football. There's also often decent college matchups, too.

I'll also add that I much prefer a holiday that falls on a Saturday taken on a Friday rather than a holiday on a Monday. Sunday still feels like Sunday night - even if the next day is open. Thursday ALWAYS feels like a Friday when Friday's the holiday.

I prefer a 3 day weekend beginning on a Friday than ending on a Monday everytime, except traveling to see an NFL Sunday game.

[Blue Heaven]

Love my Sundays. Now if I had to work Monday Mornings I'd probably hate it. I work 3rd so it's like I have a three day weekend every week. Only problem about that is that I can't do anything on Friday.

[Joneslab]

For me it's not totally work. I think it's more about the ending of the weekend.

For a couple of years I worked at home, and I still wasn't a fan of Sundays. I'm one of those people who always dreads the end of something. I'll usually be the last to leave, the first to arrive. I like nothing more than the old-fashioned get-together. It's a good thing I don't drink because I'd be at the bar all the time like Norm from Cheers.

It's almost like my disdain for school conditioned me somehow to hate the close of the weekend. I remember sitting there Sunday nights when I was a kid just disgusted. Don't even get me started on the end of the long weekend. 8:30 on a Sunday night at the end of the Christmas holiday is basically my idea of hell on earth.

[Blue Heaven]

I'll usually be the last to leave, the first to arrive.

Ditto. And I can't stand to be late for anything. My Wife comes from a family who, that if their life depended on being on time, they would've been dead long ago. It used to somewhat infuriate me, but she finally came around to my way of thinking. I leave an hour early for work. Heck I leave an hour early for just about anything. I am big on promptness.

[Joneslab]

Ditto. And I can't stand to be late for anything. My Wife comes from a family who, that if their life depended on being on time, they would've been dead long ago. It used to somewhat infuriate me, but she finally came around to my way of thinking. I leave an hour early for work. Heck I leave an hour early for just about anything. I am big on promptness.

I'm totally the same way.

My wife is pretty good, but her family has a few who will literally show up 45 minutes late and not think anything about it.

Gary and Cherie are almost always early, but there are others in that family who just...wow. I'm usually out in the parking lot 30 minutes before something just looking at the dashboard clock.

[KevinHall]

I'm totally the same way.

My wife is pretty good, but her family has a few who will literally show up 45 minutes late and not think anything about it.

Gary and Cherie are almost always early, but there are others in that family who just...wow. I'm usually out in the parking lot 30 minutes before something just looking at the dashboard clock.

I'm the same way. I'm early for everything. My dad was the same way. He got to everything anhour early. If he was late you knew something bad was wrong.

[TrueblueCATfan]

I love Sundays......Football time......Love my Packers

[capcat]

Now, Sundays are like the last day of vacation. That kind of sadness. When I was a kid, I disliked Sundays because nothing was open. It was a big deal when our town got its first convenience store They were open until 11 pm AND on Sundays. Nothing else was. Everything closed early, except downtown stores on Thursday nights. Everyone was out shopping. Thursday nights felt like a wonderland.

[Matt Dillon]

Ditto. And I can't stand to be late for anything. My Wife comes from a family who, that if their life depended on being on time, they would've been dead long ago. It used to somewhat infuriate me, but she finally came around to my way of thinking. I leave an hour early for work. Heck I leave an hour early for just about anything. I am big on promptness.

Sounds exactly like me and my in-laws.

[CATHYnKY]

When working, starting getting depressed on Sundays in the early afternoon. Thursdays were much better. Especially if it was my flex Friday. Even when it wasn't, it was Friday which was usually a quiet day at work.

[surveyor]

My brother-in-law had a quirk when we vacationed together. I first noticed it when we'd go to the beach or Key West together. He'd be in a funk the day before our last full day of vacation. Then on the last day, he'd get as much enjoyment out of that last day as he possibly could.

[Blue Heaven]

I'd say the only funk I get in is on Monday evenings, because I leave for work at 8. Whoever says you get used to 3rd shift is a liar. I've been on it for 26 1/2 years and I'm still not used to it. The body is made to sleep at night and rise with the sun. When we go on vacation, that first week back is hell on my body because I had been used to getting up very early. It takes me a good 2 weeks to get back in the swing of things. You would think after that long that I could write my ticket for whatever day job I want. I wish it were so. I might get a job I want in about ten years. Maybe.