The foundation on which this country is built.
Nobody really knows why we celebrate Labor Day. Is it because we celebrate all the women that go into labor? Is it because we like working so hard? Is it because we needed a holiday in the early part of September to have sales at stores?
I am all kinds of confused about holidays in this country. For instance, we have this Holiday that dominates all of October, and most of September, to be honest. It involves dressing up, decorating houses and candy. Lots of candy. Many people adore it and they put all kinds of money behind it. In fact, I’ve heard that we spend the most amount of money for this holiday than any other in the US. And yet, we don’t even get Holloween off. It’s a holiday in which we don’t get the day off.
Yet Labor Day is a holiday where we barely even think about in the month of September until we realize it is a long weekend. And I know a lot of people that confuse it with Memorial Day. I know more people that count down the days until the football season start than remember it is Labor Day.
And who wants a holiday that reminds them of work? I think it might go over way better if it was called Relaxation Day or Lay on the Couch Day, or Hawaiian Beach Day.
While I am on the subject of holidays, how about we find a way to celebrate all the bitterness in this country. Yes, there are a bunch of celebrated individuals that made this country great. The Washington’s, the Roosevelt’s, the Lincoln’s, but there were a whole lot more of us bitter people that did the jobs that the great one’s couldn’t or wouldn’t do.
Sure, we complained about it all the way, but we did what had to be done. How about we celebrate the common man, women and children who did the jobs and complained about it all their days. That did the jobs that the bosses were too lazy or too good to do. The ones that rowed the boats not so gently down the stream to get to America. Or the farmers that tilled the ground for 18 hours a day, just so they could get the farmer’s tans and $.40 a pound for tomatoes. Or all those telemarketers that were bitter to call and made others bitter that they called.
Those are the backs that this country stood on. How about a national bitter day for all those people?
I propose it right now, Congress or whoever makes laws. Let the bitter finally be celebrated.
ARRRRRRGHHHHHH
Bitter Belabored Day Ben
Ben's Bitter Blog 
I never really understood Labor Day either! I tried to start a Lisa Rochon Day, because a day in honor of myself seemed like a great idea. But nobody else thought so, so it never really caught on. I would TOTALLY be on board for National Bitter Day. We could have parades and throw eggs at people instead of candy. I’ve got ideas here…
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I tried to start a Bitter Ben day, but they said a Lisa Rochon day would be way more popular, fun, and exciting. However, Lisa Rochon day got edged out by St. Patrick’s Day and flag day.
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Yes! Celebrate the Bitter with an International Holiday!
On that day we can eat such things as bitter gourd melon, endive, bitter lemon, and arugula, etc.! We can sing bitter songs like: Lost Cause, Cry Me a River, and Song for the Dumped, etc.! We can watch bitter movies like: Bitter Harvest, Bitter Moon, and Bitter Jester, etc.! Oh, what fun we could have!!! 😛
HUGS!!! 😀
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You got it. And most people would be bitter because it would be on a Saturday and everyone has it off already.
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it’s funny b/c i just asked my husband yesterday why we celebrate labor day! and he didn’t know lol! we were going to google it but forgot. thanks for your post, keep up the good work!
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I had to look it up for the post and honestly, still didn’t make much sense. I’m thinking they just needed a way to mark when school starts every year.
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I remember when school didn’t start until after Labor Day. At some point, schools changed the schedule to begin in August. To me, that’s when Labor Day lost its significance. You have my vote for Bitter Day.
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I know. And I also remember when school’s got out in late April, early May. When did school’s decide to work year round?
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I blame it on global warming – the school administration trying to make up for snow days.
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Yeah, all the stupid snow days. I actually blame it on all the stupid school breaks. Why do they need a spring break in October?
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I felt that way when my kids were little. Hated those snow days, delayed openings and early closings. It threw off my whole day; so bitter.
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I support a National Bitter Day. But it will never come to pass. Which makes me feel even more bitter.
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I know. Because we don’t have a lot of influence around the congresses. Maybe it is time for one of us bitterer’s to be elected to congress or somewhere important.
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Can we also throw in the day after Halloween? Takes a day to recover from candy comas and wash off all of that grease paint.
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Halloween isn’t the only holiday we need the day after off. July 4th, New’s Years, even Christmas day we need the day after.
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I think any day we have to go to work is a Bitter Day.
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Yep so most days then right?
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I support any day that we can take off work.
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I grant you the day off today then.
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I fully support National Lay on the Couch day.
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I don’t think there should just be a day though. It should be the whole year.
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Bitter Day is a great idea. I fully support it. We could eat grapefruits and drink bitter beer as part of the traditional meal.
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I definitely think there is potential for all kinds of foods you can eat that day. All kinds of bitter.
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It should be the day after Thanksgiving. On this day, when I worked retail years ago my co-workers and I were all bitter, and all of the customers were bitter fighting for sale items like the products were a life necessity. 1 year of working retail = 1 year in heaven.
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The day after Thanksgiving is kind of the worst. For everyone, whether they are working or shopping. Too bad everyone can’t just stay home that day.
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