Happy Easter!!

[Dene]

Yay!!

For those of us who are Christians out there, this day represents one of the most important days in our history, so make sure it's a good one!

 

[jeff081692]

lol its tomorrow for me.

 

[Leviticus]

Happy Easter everyone!! Its Sunday here in Perth and its 1.45 PM

 

[Hadley4000]

For me, it's just a day where places aren't as crowded.

 

[ShadenSmith]

I had 3 friends' birthdays on Easter this year. Just got back from the birthday party. We held a fight club in the basement and I did some cubing for everyone. Loads of fun.

 

[badmephisto]

yea, my religious freak parents are going quite crazy too... for me it's just an occasion to get good food because my mom always cooks huge meal, so WEEEE EASTER!

 

[Crazycubemom]

Happy Easter evryone ,Ton is busy with Gourmet and Maria has bought from Asian food center huges of meal , so lets come to visit us

 

[SkateTracker]

Happy Easter! I'm a Christian so today is a pretty big day for me.

 

[Stefan]

I just returned from the launderette. It was closed! Half an hour of my busy-with-diploma-close-to-deadline time, WASTED for NOTHING! And in two days when I work with my colleagues again, I won't have fresh underwear. F**K easter, F**K all other holidays that interfere with my life, and F**K everybody who keeps them alive, pretending they're good and anything but an unnecessary nuisance.

 

[FlowingRiver94]

I just returned from the launderette. It was closed! Half an hour of my busy-with-diploma-close-to-deadline time, WASTED for NOTHING! And in two days when I work with my colleagues again, I won't have fresh underwear. F**K easter, F**K all other holidays that interfere with my life, and F**K everybody who keeps them alive, pretending they're good and anything but an unnecessary nuisance.

Hey! This is a really important day for Christians, including me. My Easter stinks so far, but you don't see me making rude comments!

 

[Stefan]

Hey! This is a really important day for Christians, including me. My Easter stinks so far, but you don't see me making rude comments!

You're missing the point. If you mess with your own life, that's your own fault. If others mess with my life, for no good reason, I have the right to be p***ed off. And if you support this bullying, then F you. If you want to have a day off and party or whatever, go for it. Just don't interfere with my life. Especially not if your reason for it is some imaginary bu****it.

 

[FlowingRiver94]

I personally don't think people need to make such a big deal over Easter either. I have nothing to do with it, I'm just saying you need to stop blaming other people for your problems.

 

[Stefan]

I only blame others for my problems that *they* cause, and I have every right to do so.

 

[abbracadiabra]

Stefan, with all due respect, did you not know that Easter was coming? Did you expect the laundromat to be open on Easter?

I hope you've got some food to eat. If I remember correctly at Christmas you were frustrated that you had nothing to eat and everything was closed. So this time around I hope you planned well enough in advance to stock up on food.

I'm Jewish - it's not my holiday either. But I respect everyone else's right to have family time on their special holidays. Since I know those days are coming well in advance, I plan accordingly.

I'm not much of a holiday celebrator myself. But last year for Passover, my employer (on a surprise basis) not only sent me home for the holiday, but arranged to have a huge meal catered at my house for me and my family. At the time I thought it was a little ridiculous to take the day off from work, but since I was being sent home anyway, I arranged to have my parents over to share the seder with us. It meant the world to my mother - she was thrilled.

Unbeknownst to me at that time, it would be mother's last Passover seder. She passed away a month and a half later. I will always treasure that wonderful memory of that special holiday we spent together.

Would you really begrudge someone else that kind of special memory just so you could do laundry whenever you felt like it? Believe it or not, mankind lived for thousands of years before laundromats were invented, and they still managed to wear clean clothes. My suggestion is to hand wash a couple pairs of underwear so you have something clean to wear until the laundromat reopens.

 

[Stefan]

I bought food, but the laundromat is different.

1) It's fully automated, there are just the customers and the machines. They'd just have to open the door in the morning and close it in the evening (if the lock isn't automated, too, which I don't know).

2) Stores are closed here on Sunday, the laundromat is usually open every day.

And like I said earlier, party all you want, but leave me alone.

 

[Crazycubemom]

Dear Stefan,

I think everyone knows this weekend is LONGGGGGGGGGGGGG weekend and many stores are closed except in Big City cause many Turkish or Morrocans stores open . and we would like to INVITE you X-mas and EASTER so no more complain from you about those days where most people HAPPY , with us overloaded food like Asian food as your favorite and at the corner of our street there is Turkish baker with their specialist Doner kebab and Ton can good cooks European food and take all your dirty cloths with you cause my wash machine works good.

And... you can cube all day with Rama and Ton

Hope to see you
Maria Oey

 

[abbracadiabra]

Ok, now I understand why you expected the laundromat to be open, although I'm surprised that the owners don't require an attendant during operating hours. I think if it were my business I'd want an employee there at all times, if not to provide customer service then at least to prevent vandalism and to protect my investment.

See, the whole thing is it's not possible for everyone to party all they want but leave you alone. We aren't islands - we're all interconnected. Here's an example: In order for your local grocery clerk and gas station attendant to be able to spend the holiday with their family, either a replacement needs to be deprived of the holiday with his family, or the grocery store and gas station need to close for the day. And that deprives you of grocery store and gas station services for the day. So, are you in fact saying that it's ok for everyone else to be inconvenienced as long as it's not you?

 

[Stefan]

So, are you in fact saying that it's ok for everyone else to be inconvenienced as long as it's not you?

No. Firstly, the machines don't need a holiday and wouldn't be inconvenienced. Secondly, there must be enough people who like me don't want anything to do with these holidays, and who'd prefer to work and earn some money and just continue a regular life and allow others to do the same. Hmm... good point made by Maria, I think I know a Turkish laundromat, maybe that one is open. Unfortunately it's quite far away and I don't want to try it and be disappointed again.

 

[Dene]

I have a suggestion: buy a washing machine. Or: buy more underwear.
It's actually quite funny, there was some stupid lady on the radio talking about how it should be banned to open anything on Easter in New Zealand, and that anybody that did should be fined a crapload of money plus all their profits etc etc. What a frikin idiot. I'm just like, what the hell? What if other people don't want to celebrate it?
Then my Grandma comes in (she is a hardcore fundamentalist Christian by the way) with a comment like "if they don't celebrate easter then they shouldn't get a holiday." So I reply "yes, that's exactly the point! They don't want a holiday, they just want to work!" And she replies "if they don't want to celebrate easter then they shouldn't get a holiday." And I'm just standing there like, weren't you listening to what I said? It was as though she put up a block against me as soon as I mentioned something "anti-religious" or whatever, and just assumed whatever I was saying, she didn't agree with. I mean, this is the sort of thing that is just plain ignorant. Kind of off topic but, oh well.
I worked yesterday, so, whatever. I don't see why you shouldn't work, just because it's Easter? I mean, I'm a Christian, but it's just another day. It's kind of like, there's no actual reason we give out chocolate, we just do, it's completely irrelevant to the day.

 

[abbracadiabra]

I have a suggestion: buy a washing machine. Or: buy more underwear.

It's actually quite funny, there was some stupid lady on the radio talking about how it should be banned to open anything on Easter in New Zealand, and that anybody that did should be fined a crapload of money plus all their profits etc etc.

Dene, he CAN'T buy more underwear today. It's Easter Sunday and all the stores are closed. If he wants clean underwear, he's gonna have to wash it.

As far as the lady on the radio is concerned, she might make good sense if your country was governed by religious law. That isn't so far-fetched - I can think of several middle eastern countries who are governed by religious law, and once upon a time most of Europe was controlled by the church.

Here in the United States, and I think in New Zealand, as well, we have seperation of church and state. That means that while religious holidays may be celebrated by a majority of the people, they aren't mandated by the government. Hence, the government would have no right to establish or legislate business operating hours during a religious holiday.

However...

there must be enough people who like me don't want anything to do with these holidays, and who'd prefer to work and earn some money and just continue a regular life and allow others to do the same.

Sadly, there aren't - at least around here. I work in a business that operates 365 days a year, including weekends and holidays. I don't hire anyone without first explaining our operating hours and letting them know that they will be required to work nights, weekends and holidays. Still, everybody begs for Sunday off, and everybody begs for the holidays off. In an effort to be fair, we try to honor their requests on a rotating basis, with preference towards seniority. But we can't let everybody take Sundays and holidays off and still be able to operate our business. I've had employees who just call in sick and leave us short-handed on those days when their request to be scheduled off had been denied. We've had to institute a pretty hard-line policy of disciplinary action (up to and including termination) for employees who take unauthorized days off during holidays unless they are able to provide a doctors note proving that there was a medical emergency. Oh, and by the way, we do pay a premium for holiday work.