Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers).

Saturday is the Best Day of the Week* because:

• the schedule of work/school that we are compelled to follow for 71.42857 % of the week is disabled (or, at very least reduced in some manner)
• while there are responsibilities found in the day ahead, they can be discharged in a more… causal fashion
• TV is fun (and varied) at all hours, weird shows (not fat people throwing chairs weird) but birds carrying kittens to their nest to raise as their own weird
• our parents are visible
• our spouses are relaxed (at least in the early morning)
• our children are happy(er)
• our pets wake up, and run around (or jump on the bed) like it was Christmas morning

So what’s not to like?  Granted we have chores and part-time jobs, bedrooms to clean and laundry to do, lawns to mow and power tools to return to the neighbors but no matter how busy we are with these tasks, we can stop, in the middle of everything and sit down, on the porch and read the mail, on the backsteps and idly pull weeds from the edging around the sidewalk, get on the computer and check an email account we have been ignoring…tasks are not nearly as difficult when they can be interrupted at our whim. And the best part? …at the end of this sometimes busy, often hectic day we have Saturday night. For the average, not possessed of wealth sufficient to have a limo, not famous enough to have a social secretary, not popular enough to have friends calling to try and get you to go to their affair, not sick in a hospital, not depressed enough to still be in bed, person, Saturday Night has the potential to be the best of nights/the worst of nights. It is the night of the week that you hate because it forces you to believe the part of you that says you will always be alone, it is the night of the week that you love because it allows that part of you that never wants to get old to show you what you can be, it is the night of the week where your fears are proven false…only if you are willing to give up and do the thing that you fear the most, it is the night of the week that lets the hope you have for a happy life be demonstrated in ways that you understand.

…full of promise, yet with a requirement that we do some things that we are afraid of, some things that we hate and all in faith that we deserve and will get what we want from life.

(Saturday Night Drive: 8:00 to 8:45 pm EDT 218-339-0422  access code 512103 #  no one yet has told us, ‘man I really wish I hadn’t called that number’)

* in the Wakefield Doctrine sense of the word, of course!

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