You weren't supposed to get "it" on Sundays.
That seemed so commonplace back when I was growing up in the 1970s and early '80s. Plans had to be made according to the day of the week. Sunday used to be a day of rest.
This was the thought that occurred to me as I was passing through town to get to the graduation party/family reunion detailed above. The business was Tim's Coney Island, which has undergone several metamorphises (new word?) since its original incarnation as Nugget Fine Foods.
Seeing no cars in its parking lot, I wondered whether Tim's was just another business casualty in that building. The answer was a definitive no: the restaurant was actually closed on Sunday; a business theme no longer practiced in general.
I then realized that I have been as brainwashed by the almighty dollar as the next person. You thought of nothing except going to church on Sunday. Business owners thought of religion as something important or precious. Nowadays, it makes news when something is closed on this day. Never mind what may be open 24 hours a day - six days per week used to be the rule in business. Now I may have seen the last vestige of that old rule yesterday.
This would not be a surprise in the politically correct climate of today. Removal of the Ten Commandments or anything citing religion have been all but kicked out of government buildings & places of general public nature. The consumer is always on the go, and has been trained to think as such. Not only is the dollar stretched, but it must be valuable all days of the week. Convenience has replaced observation, reflection & routine as the way society operates.
Note this is not a blog that will get preachy from a religious or secular standpoint. Sunday observances have taken a different meaning today, if not totally abandoned at all.
I don't have the power to declare what's right; but perhaps society has weaned away from start-of-the-week values, which seem to come to the forefront around Christmastime. No "X" about it.
