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Original poster

to think that Sunday is a normal day and people should behave accordingly.

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HookedOnHooking · 22/02/2015 09:37

It's fucking medieval that shops are only allowed to open a few hours and not allowed to sell gin at a specific point. It is 2015 FFS.

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ilovesooty · 22/02/2015 16:37

As I said MrsItsNow - times have changed.

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 22/02/2015 16:37

Coped....doesn't look right, have I spelt it right? It doesn't look correct.

I should've put managed.

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 22/02/2015 16:39

They have indeed, Sooty but not for the best in my opinion.

Everything seems to be all work work work, when did we all so work driven?

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 22/02/2015 16:40

get so work driven I mean.

ilovesooty · 22/02/2015 16:42

We became work driven when housing costs rose and material expectations increased thus needing more hours spent at work.

I am work driven actually because I want to be - people are all different.

SomewhereIBelong · 22/02/2015 16:46

I loved it when the olympics were on an the government gave shops and supermarkets permission to stay open longer/open earlier on Sundays

you obviously did not have to work in one... on Sundays... extra hours, short notice, standard minimum wage rate, not much fun the other side of the checkout.

Stardustnight · 22/02/2015 16:47

The OP is brilliant Grin

I love her!

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 22/02/2015 16:53

I appreciate that Sooty but I am not, doesn't make me lazy. But there is more to life than work.

Exactly somewhere

ilovesooty · 22/02/2015 16:55

I didn't say anyone who isn't work driven is lazy.

chimchimini · 22/02/2015 16:59

Fuck no, don't treat Sunday like a normal day. Everyone needs a break. DH and I already have to work Saturdays, we don't want to work bloody Sundays too. Some people like having some chill out time with their kids.

Get yourself organised. The shops were open yesterday you know. And the supermarkets are open just about 24 hours the rest of the week. Jeez, have a thought for the workers who are pressured into working weekends and bank holidays. Or stay selfish and demand your gin. Ooh Thatchers children, me me me.

fourcorneredcircle · 22/02/2015 17:00

somewhere Nope, you're right, but I did work on a till in a supermarket for three years - it wasn't the worst job I had by a long way. I accept that you hadn't signed up for those hours initially but if the law was changed, as the OP suggests, then it would become standard and something you would accept about the job - like the stupid fuckwits that can't read the 'lie the bottles down' signs ;)

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 22/02/2015 17:06

I know you didn't, Sooty

kickassangel · 22/02/2015 17:11

I actually really loathe that a tiny minority of the country get to dictate how everyone has to behave. A really small % actually go to church! but if someone is Muslim or Jewish they don't have their religion respected in the same way. It's horribly bigoted to make the entire country live by rules set by the minority.

It would be perfectly possible for stores to be open the same hours every day of the week, but give staff with religious beliefs a set day off.

Other businesses and schools etc are more constrained as they tend to rely on everyone being there at the same time to function properly, but in retail it works by people coming and going, and hopefully not all turning up at once.

I work 7 am to 6 pm during the week. I also have DD to look after and clubs etc for her. There isn't much time to get stuff done. There are too many places like the post office that is only open on Sat am so I don't always get stuff done before shops close and I have to wait another week.

It's easy enough to avoid shops and busy places by just not going there. Not so easy to get to the bank, post office, have the car fixed etc if they are shut.

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HookedOnHooking · 22/02/2015 17:13

I love you too stardust.

Off to church now. It is sunday after all. I'll try not to swear Grin

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lertgush · 22/02/2015 17:16

OP made me laugh. I remember Sundays when everything was closed and we all cleaned the house, went for a walk then had Sunday dinner. It was so. Fucking. Boring.

BlackRedGold · 22/02/2015 17:33

I live in Germany, and everything is closed on Sunday. We don't even have a corner shop, though there is a garage open in the next town.
We have to walk there though, because we don't have a bus service on Sundays.
And we're not allowed to do noisy things like DIY or mowing the lawn on Sundays either.
Everything shuts at lunchtime on Saturdays where we live too Hmm.

I love going shopping in the UK at weekends whenever we come back for a visit.

We are forced to be wholesome and outdoorsy living here - a brisk family walk round the lake rather than a stroll around the shops on a Sunday for us. At least most (though not all) restaurants are open on a Sunday - though they are often closed on a Saturday which seems even more inexplicable.

kickassangel · 22/02/2015 17:43

We all work a whole load less than before modern consumerism was invented. I have no problems with the idea of having a day or two off per week, it's the minority forcing their religious observance onto the majority that pisses me off.

ghostspirit · 22/02/2015 17:54

shops in my area are open on a sunday. 11-5 thats 6 hours, think thats quite good enough.

i lived up north for a little while some time back and the shops were closed or closed early on a wednesday i was quite shocked by that...

Roseleaf · 22/02/2015 17:59

I've changed my mind. I wouldn't mind if everything except the absolute essential services were closed on a Sunday

That would mean I'd get every Sunday off. Forever.

I'd lounge at home watching TV. Listening to the shrieks of agony as all you Sunday-lovers discover that all the pubs and restaurants are closed, so you can't indulge in that long, leisurely family lunch, which I cook and serve you every week

Grin Grin Grin

ilovesooty · 22/02/2015 18:02

You wouldn't be able to watch TV. It's a non essential service.

SpringTimeIsComing · 22/02/2015 18:06

We lived on Lewis in the Outer Hebrides 17 years ago. Absolutely nothing opened on a Sunday up there except the church. We aren't church goers so were an absolute oddity to the locals. I dared hang my washing out the first Sunday we were there and was nearly hung drawn and quartered in the local store on the Monday morning. 6 months before we moved I used to get the ferry on a Friday and go to my mothers on the mainland for the weekend with the children as no bloody ferries ran on a Sunday either. DH is a vet and on a Monday morning the phone would be ringing like mad with "emergencies" from people who had let their animals suffer as they didn't agree with working on a Sunday.

motherinferior · 22/02/2015 18:12

I like Sunday because you can loll around and drink gin in the day. Or in my case wine. You're too nice to your kids, OP - you need to create a non-nurturing environment so they bugger off with their friends. The big one is back but lurking in her room and the little one is still out. I am reclining with a nice glass of white. Their father is mulling over what to cook for supper. The joy of Sunday, innit.

motherinferior · 22/02/2015 18:14

None of this family time stuff. Joyous mutual distrust and divisionGrin.

MrsItsNoworNotatAll · 22/02/2015 18:15

Why did they object to you hanging out your washing, Spring?

SpringTimeIsComing · 22/02/2015 18:28

MrsItsNowOrNotAtAll

Hanging washing out was classed as housework. No work was to be done on a Sunday at all including house work. I was told even if we didn't go to church the island "observed the sabbath". I don't know if things are more relaxed now but it was bloody awful at the time on a Sunday.

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