What is the end result? Another f'n Sunday

Sundays are the worst day for working in retail. I'm being serious. Every retail job I have had has Sunday being the worst day to work. Saturdays are no picnic, but it doesn't seem as high strung or as evil as Sunday. What is it about Sundays?

For a long time I assumed it was the Christians. When I worked at A-Boy Hardware, Sunday at 1pm was the reckoning. All these people wearing their Sunday best would swarm in and be demanding. I hated it. I had a theory that they had gotten the saintly duties out of the way so enacting the golden rule on the guy in plumbing didn't really matter. 

It isn't the Christians. As much as I'd like to blame them for everything wrong in the world, and most of the bad stuff in the world is the Christians fault, it isn't their fault. It's the expectations of certain weekend days.

A guy came into my coffee shop last year on a rainy tuesday. He said he loved tuesdays the best because that was the day everyone was done gabbing about what they did that weekend and recovering if it was too crazy, and it was too soon to be talking about what was gonna happen the next weekend, so everyone was more or less living in the moment. Living in the day, almost like Tuesday is the day everyone becomes a Buddhist. 

Back to Sunday - this is the last day of the weekend, usually, and people need to make the weekend worth it wether it's entertainment or finishing some projects. Monday is fast approaching and they haven't done anything yet. This is also the day of rest. Most families that I have observed do all their chores and house work on Saturdays. Sunday is the leisure day. The day to sip a latte in a ceramic mug at a coffee shop on some popular hang out street. The day to get the sprinkler supplies at the hardware store for next weekend. Sunday becomes a day of high expectations.

If I can't give the person on Sunday exactly what they want, they throw a tantrum. I see it ten to twenty times a Sunday. I'm not kidding, grown women and men almost cry because what they had imagined themselves doing on a Sunday isn't going to happen. I don't see that happen as often on other days of the week. Why is it so important?

The last thing I want to bitch about is how terrible the tips are on Sundays. We make three times the money on Sunday, but less tips then on a Monday or a Tuesday. If you go into a cafe on a Sunday - tip the person, for they have gone through hell and are not having a good day.