Today’s Brief Question About Why It Will Take Me Six Months To Realize It’s 2007
January 1st, 2007
Brief question, hot shot.
Why is it that it will take me six months to realize it’s 2007 when it comes to writing checks, filling out important governmental paperwork, sending e-mails, dating letters and shouting my rallying cry (“2007 I Lurve You!”) from the rooftops. Why is it that banks will charge me additional fees for cashing checks that are one year old (dated January 2006) when in reality, they’re simply newly written checks afflicted with my horrible six-month mental delay disease? Why is it that calendar makers (do you hear me, Mayans?) couldn’t have just made each year the same, numerical wise, and changed only the picture that represented said new year instead?
Then this year could have still been 2006, but the picture this year would be of a coffee can instead of last year’s (2006) picture of an empty creme brulee dish?
Answer me that, masses.
Happy New Year
Comment by purpletwinkie — January 1, 2007 @ 10:29 am
Mayans?
Dude: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Gregorian_Calendar#Beginning_of_the_year
Anyway, HNY.
Comment by JM — January 1, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
So, you think that a picture would be less confusing??? Happy 2007!!
Comment by jacquie — January 1, 2007 @ 6:29 pm
i lurve you paul!
ps. embrace the 07
Comment by sarah — January 1, 2007 @ 7:33 pm
Paul, I suffered from the same affliction for the better part of my childhood dating all my post-New Year homework and classwork assigments with the previous year. In 5th grade I had a nun who was a stickler for such details and lobbed off 25 points each time you screwed up the date. She was also bipolar, drank a lot and spit excessively when she yelled, but hey, I learned quickly if I wanted to maintain my solid C average I needed to keep up to date on my headings.
I suggest you get yourself a personal nun — one from an old German order and preferrably one not yet in AA.
Comment by jerry — January 2, 2007 @ 6:39 am
It always takes me at least a month to write the correct year on all checks
Happy New Year, Toots!
Comment by LisaBinDaCity — January 2, 2007 @ 7:04 am
What kind of coffee?
Comment by Jeff — January 2, 2007 @ 7:28 am
i have already been writing 2007 for a couple weeks now. i guess my over-preparedness is coming in handy.
Comment by ms. sizzle — January 2, 2007 @ 8:39 am
Jeff - It would be a classic Folgers coffee can from the 70’s.
Comment by Pauly D — January 2, 2007 @ 10:32 am