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So yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon, I found that I had to run back out to the store for a couple of things. C thought I was just going to go up to the corner market for the ice cubes, but their ice cubes just kind of meld into a solid block at which we would have been chipping for hours. Nope, I thought, I am going to get the good ones at the store.
So I pull into Stop & Shop, since it's right up the road. I get to the door, and it's locked. It wasn't quite 1500 yet, but there was a sign at the door. Okay, I thought, I've got other places to try.
Off to Price Chopper once again.
I pull in, and there are a few cars in there. I'm thinking that they'd be open their normal 24 hours. Right?
I get into a parking space, and as soon as I close my door, some of the younger workers there, who I thought were just on a break and hanging around, say in a rather abrupt and impolite town, "We're closed!"
I yell back, "You could at least have signs up for it."
They pointed to the door outside of which they were gathered. "There's a sign there."
I pointed to the other door. "There wasn't a sign at that door when I was here a few hours ago this morning."
They just shrugged at me and restated the existance of a sign at the door at their side.
In a huff, I get back into my car, knowing that my the limitation on time which I had set was drawing near. As I pull out of the driveway and past these hooligan-wannabes, I just glare at them. They could have been nicer about explaining things instead of just being brats.
So I fall back upon the last, best hope for any shopping on a religious holiday -- Shaw's. Open until 1800. Lovely. I get my items -- ice cubes and garlic cheese spread (been in the mood for that as of late), go through the self-service line, and out the door. Five minutes later, as the radio is playing "Time," I get back home.
The point to my rant? The fact that only one religion seems to have control over business. Okay, so the Christians have a big holiday right now, and businesses decide to shut. Right, fine, that's nice and generous of you, allowing your employees to be with their families.
But what about those among us who don't celebrate Easter? Those who are Jewish, or Muslim, or Shinto, or Pagan? We have to curtail our shopping activities because someone decides to let their religion supress other people's activities?
Lets look at another group of people: those who either have to work until late afternoon or later, or those who are just getting home from a long plane or train or bus ride from wherever, and find that they don't really have anything to eat in the house, and have had enough of fast food and want to cook up a little something? Well, guess they're SOL and stuck with burritos from Honey Farms then.
I know Easter is a big family holiday, and I'm not holding that against anyone. Hell, C and I went to my parents' place for a nice dinner last night. But it just doesn't really seem like it should be a reason to just completely shut down a business for most of a day. I can see closing on Christmas and Thanksgiving. Those are bigger family holidays, more of a reason to travel and such. I've never really noticed businesses closing early on Easter. I don't recall if the CVS at which I worked for 5.5 years closed early on that day. Hell, one time I worked at a different store to help cover a staff shortage on Easter morning. Didn't bother me, really.
I guess in this day and older age, I am just getting a little cynical about how suppressive religion can be if you don't follow it. *shrug*
Of course, it's just the way I'm thinking... I'm quite possibly in error...
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damn HTML markups :)
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They are a very clear majority in the US.
Even the folks that don't practice are affected and act in unconscious little ways that betray them as a member of a Christian society.
Take, for example, Megazone. He's very definitely not Christian, yet a recent post of his, he uses the word Jesus (in the form of a prayer if you want to see it that way), and probably didn't even think about it. That's how deeply (and insiduously) rooted it is.
I think you've picked up on the fact that I'm working to weed out the stray bits like that in my own language, as well as the standard profanity. I still slip up far too much for my own piece of mind.
In any case, Tolerance of your fellow man (which they preach, but do not necessarily practice) means that I know these holidays are coming up and since I'm in the minority, I need to go to a little extra effort so I have food around the house.
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I guess I was just put off by the major inconvenience the whole experience proved to be when you need that last minute item for whatever. I also stemmed it from past experience that's pretty much 15 years out of date. Things change, I know, and this just proved to be one of those things.
As I said, it's a rant, no harm is meant by it, it's just more of a vent.
In our next episode: pfloyd attempts to speak in public with both size 10.5s in his yapper. :)
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He claimed his family was muslum, but not religious. They went to 'church' once or twice a year, and held all the holiday celibrations, but really more as a reason to feast/get together with family/etc.
I think this is how most americans are christian. Not because they really really believe, but because it is how they were raised. They have been told all of their lives they were christian. The masses have never been known for their ability to think and make decisions for themselves.
The result.. everyone claims they are christian, but in reality...
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Techincally... Easter is supposed to be more important to Christians than Christmas.