Welcome to Leap Day, an epic, exciting event that affects every entity in the entire world like nothing else! (Writing “effects” would have looked cooler, but the grammar police station is right near our house and they would have busted my eff-in’ ass in about three eff-in’ seconds.)
Then again, most epic things don’t follow a regular schedule. (And now that the writer’s strike is over, TV can follow a regular schedule, too! Which eliminates my excuse for not writing blog entries as often! Dammit!) So it’s 2008 and it’s Leap Day, the 366th day of a leap year.
So here’s my question: what effect does this have on stores and restaurants that are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year? Do they get today off? (That might explain why some of those places have locks on the doors.) Or maybe they pick some random day during the year to shut down. It could be some arbitrary date like May 23rd… or maybe they pick their favorite holiday: “Let them cook their own damn turkey! I’m going home to watch football!”
Personally, I’m skipping work today. Screw the system, I’m busy leaping! (Of course, skipping work might be more of an epic, exciting event if I was actually supposed to work today, but isn’t the intent more important than the result in this case?) Okay, so it doesn’t effect the… hey, who are you? Get out of my room! Whaddya mean, ‘you’re busting my eff-in’ ass’?! … Oh, come on! I used the wrong word, it’s a simple mistake, I can fix… Damn you, Grammar Police!
