Desmond Macedo

It was a usual Monday morning in office and somebody asked somebody else, “How did your weekend go?”

Somebody else answered “God don’t ask, the weekend flew so fast I am left behind in Sunday. In the first place, Saturday flew so fast I was caught on Sunday morning holding a beer."

“If I go backwards, I left office very late Friday night so the whole weekend got pushed forward.”

"And now I’m caught on Monday morning looking for a lazy breakfast of steaming hot idlis like I usually have on Sunday mornings. God, don’t tell me I’m going to be one day behind this whole week. I’ll be the only jackass in the office chasing yesterday”, somebody else whined and grumbled.

Dan was listening to this whine and grumble. The problem he felt was, today 5 days are no longer enough for work. So working days spill over into weekends and weekends spill over into the next working days.

So Dan thought, why not have a 10-day week, with seven working days and a 3-day weekend?

In the present system neither does the work get completed, nor does the holiday.With a 10-day week he felt there will be enough time for both. And work and weekend will be kept where they belong. Apart.

Dan called the people who print calendars and made the suggestion to them. He went on to explain: “A month has 30 or 31 days, Feb excluded. Within practical limits, how we divide those days is left to us. No one is interfering with the time the earth takes to go around the sun, so it’s alright.”

The people who print calendars looked as blank as a Tuesday morning.

Dan Mullagathanny spoke slowly. “Listen gentlemen” he said, “in a 10-day week, at least people won’t come to office on Monday morning looking for steaming hot idlis.”

Note: Taken from The Underground Writers' Blog at undergroundwriters.blogspot.com. Want to write a humour story here? Go ahead, and send it to me at dezymacedo@gmail.com