Yeah, I know. It’s Thursday. But since tomorrow I am going to visit my grandparents for Father’s Day with my parents, it might as well be Friday because I’m not going to do any work tomorrow.

My brother has a floating schedule where he gets two days off a week, but not necessarily Saturday and Sunday. He refers to every day of the week, however, not by its actual name but rather what it would be if he got Saturday and Sunday off. If he has off on Wednesday and Thursday, he refers to Tuesday as “Friday” and Thursday as “Sunday.”

As you can imagine, this is confusing as heck. Back when he had Thursdays and Friday’s off, he chastised me for forgetting LOST was on by saying, “LOST is always on Sunday nights!” This would be fine were it not for the fact that LOST is on on Wednesday nights so this conversation made no sense.

This past week, he lamented the fact that there was no good TV on on Sunday nights because shows like Family Guy and The Simpsons air on real Sunday. It makes my head hurt.

For most of the year, he also only has one day a week off so he would refer to that day as both Saturday and Sunday, switching words about half-way through the day.

This situation was also the architect of this wonderful conversation.

Sam: Tomorrow is my Friday.
Hillary: Today is Thursday. Tomorrow is everyone’s Friday.
Sam: Well, then we’ll all enjoy it, won’t we?

I suppose it’s the best system we have to work with.

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