to be naffed off that my hairdresser has decided to close for the Royal Wedding, but open on Easter Monday?

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For fecks sake be closed on both.

I just am saddened by the fact that they're that bothered about making money that they will open on the most important day of the christian Calender.

Maybe they are not Christians....and therefore don't give a monkey's?

Are the opened on the most important day of the Muslim calendar? What about Jewish? WHy should they make a special exception to close for Christian events? If they are Christian and it menat anything to them they woudl close.

Silly anyway as they won't make any money, people will assume its closed and not bother to make an appt for that day.

Of course they are bothered about "making money" - its a business at the end of the day, not a charity. And as bakeit said maybe theyre not christians.

What is so important about the day after Easter?

eh? I'm a Christian and I can't think of anything important about bank holiday Monday - will the shops get a new delivery of wildly inappropriate after the fact hot-x buns?

stop being weird

"Are the opened on the most important day of the Muslim calendar? What about Jewish? WHy should they make a special exception to close for Christian events? If they are Christian and it menat anything to them they woudl close. "

Hear hear.

OP YABU. If you want companies that you deal with to close on Xtian holidays, take your business only to companies with a Christian ethos.

Otherwise leave the rest of us alone.

If they aren't christians, why do they have to close?

15% of people in this country are church going christians, only 15% of people give a rat's arse, why shoudl they get to dictate when shops can and can't open?

colditz, unfortunately they already do. Sunday trading laws....

royally fecks me off, all that nonsense.

Yes, winds me up too. Why can't I buy shoes at 5pm on a Sunday? WHY?

its not an important day for me,and as consumer i want more choice not less
Sunday trading law are bad enough infringement,i dont want some god botherer dictating when i can shop.but unfortunately they do

Shoes , lol.

i was thinking about the last time i wanted to buy paracetemol (tesco closed, at about 7pm sunday), but whatever floats your boat :D

Easter Monday is a bank holiday which has traditionally included secular celebrations including egg rolling, hare pie scrambling, bottle kicking and coal carrying (apparently!!) and nothing to do with religion!! Maybe the Hairdressers are confused by the hare pie scrambling and were under the impression they had to provide the contents of the pie!?

Heh. God-botherers are funny.

I thought Good Friday and Easter Sunday were the two really important days- representing the crucifiction and the resurrection. I didn't think Easter Monday had particular religious significance.

Non Christians like to have nice hair too.

I'm not good on the Christian ecumenical calendar but isn't Easter Monday intended for a quite different resurrection? The one that involves attempting to get off the sofa after a Sunday spent scoffing your own weight in chocolate.

scottishmummy

its not an important day for me,and as consumer i want more choice not less
Sunday trading law are bad enough infringement,i dont want some god botherer dictating when i can shop.but unfortunately they do

Why do you need 7 day weeks for shopping? Can you not plan out what you need and get it on other days or is that too difficult?

Easter Monday is important?!?!? I think you'll find to most of the world it's just the day after Easter.

In fact, when I moved from the US to Belfast I had to ask my husband why Easter Monday and Tuesday were bank holidays. He replied 'Because on Monday Jesus needed a nap and Tuesday he went to the pub.'

Christmas is the most important day of the Christian calender - all that turkey and presents! Not Easter...

Hair dressers prerogative to open her business when she wants..

If you don't like it, go elsewhere.

She's exercising her right to choose, you exercise yours!

colditz you can buy a pair of shoes at 5 to 5 on sunday if the shops are open 11-5 OR you can buy a pair of shoes at 10 am on sunday if the shops are open from 10 - 4
Either way you have 6 hours on Sunday to shop under the current regs

AND the shop assistants who also work on saurday and whose partners work Monday to Friday and whose children are at school Monday to Friday get a little more time to spend with their families - not a bad trade off in my book

SurreyDad
Easter Sunday is the most important date in the Christian calender

I think they should close for both but then it is their business. Can't see that many people insisting on a haircut on Easter monday but that is just my opinion.

given i dont participate in church i dont want it impinging upon my life,and i do want to be able shop after 5pm on a sunday.by all means if Christian holidays are significant,then yes be observant. doesn't matter to me so i resent being curtailed by someone else minority beliefs

Are you in Scotland? Because Easter Monday is not a bank holiday here.