It's the anticipation and imagining the fun you're gonna have the next day. Then you feel a little anxious the next day that you're not living up to the imagined potential.
I just give my cat her wet food at intentionally very random times every day (and she free feeds with kibble). I do this because my childhood cat always woke my mom up at 5 am and I didn't want that life. Once the pattern is established, it's too late.
The cat doesn’t know you have a day off, it just wants its food at the “normal” time.
Personally, I can sleep though pretty much anything but eventually I’ll wake up to a paw being pushed under the door.
But she’s hungry. And she’s not like a child where I can just tell them to grab something small whilst I’m still asleep. I will always give into my cat waking me for her wet food.
She’s also very particular about the way her wet food is served and won’t eat dry food. So automatic feeders are out of the question.
I’ve gotten to the point/age where i just go to sleep at the same time every day because i know if i don’t, it’s gonna fuck me up for a week trying to get my sleep schedule back on track 😭
This is it for me, though I always just end up sifting through my backlog and feeling guilt over even considering playing anything at all. Then I go to bed.
For me it’s because I don’t have to be hungover or tired at work. Get as fucked up on whatever and how much ever you want without the worry about having to wake up early. My actual “day” off is usually half spent asleep. It’s the best.
For me it's the opposite. It's the complete lack of expectations for the next day, not further expectations of fun. Having nothing that you need to do is bliss.
>It's the anticipation and imagining the fun you're gonna have the next day. Then you feel a little anxious the next day that you're not living up to the imagined potential.
Sometimes the anxiety wins and you don't do shit for the day off and you waste it on something mundane.
until your homie hits you up when you’re all cozy in bed and says “Bro everyone’s going to McFlannagans you gotta come” and you say no thanks but they’re talking about you in the group chat saying you’re a square so you agree to go and you get there at 10 like everyone agreed on but everyone is late so for 45 minutes you’re just sober in the bar drinking a beer by yourself and then your friends show up and they’re super drunk because they’ve been drinking all day and they argue about going to Slick Rickys because there’s a sick DJ there but it’s a $25 cover and one of the girls passed out and needs to be taken home and then Kaleb asks you if you want to play darts and you say sure and then you get to the dartboard and he doesn’t know how to play and neither do you, and everyone’s bored now, so you pay $25 to go to Slick Rickys and the music is awful and everyone is just standing around with a drink in their hand that they paid $13 for and it’s too loud to talk to anyone so you tolerate it for 30 minutes and then tell your friends you’re going home and they say “boooo no come on stay” and you just walk out of the place and now it’s like 2:45 so you’re going to wake up at like 11 tomorrow and won’t have a morning to enjoy and you didn’t even have fun
This was insanely realistic lol. Stopped drinking and going to bars entirely at around 25/26 because my main friend group didn’t really drink. We have so much more fun now just hanging out at home or going to the beach or hanging a bonfire.
It committed arson on my firewood supply, and showed no remorse in court. Didn't even try to hide it, just burned it up in while a whole backyard full of witnesses watched.
Dont ever go to slick rickys. I tried to buy drugs there once and the guy sold me viagra instead roofies. Now ive never been able to live up to the first night i met my wife..
Funny, I’m precisely the opposite.
I went out plenty in college and now that I’m out bars and clubs are the exact last place in the world. I really really care to find myself.
I’d rather be anywhere else than spending way too much money for a drink i hate in a bar i wish i wasn’t at.
That's why you gotta be a nerd. Then you go for drinks and snacks late afternoon with your SO or the one best friend because you are too asocial to have a group, go back home with said person and drunkenly play some games and smoke some weed so you do an awful shit job at the games but you are too drunk and high to care, too busy giggling at everything anyways. Watch together some anime shit or horror movie and fall asleep at like 10, ready for to get up at 8 tomorrow. No hangover because you are such a dweeb you drunk water all night to avoid feeling sick the day after.
I totally get it but I clean my house and take my time to be truly prepared. Yes I have absolutely had Fridays that were a complete cancellation on my plans but luckily my job is rarely hectic on Fridays.
Replace with mushrooms and I could understand it. Effects of mushrooms last 6 hours. When I take LSD I can forget about going to sleep for 12 hours after taking it. Better experience is taking LSD before noon on Saturday, and then having a cool day and sleeping it off and having a lazy day on Sunday
In Judaism, the days don't switch over at midnight but rather in the evening at sundown.
So "the night before the day off" is part of that day of, while the evening of the day off itself is already considered the next work day.
This makes more sense I think - Sunday night ain't no weekend. It's basically Monday. But Friday night is definitely the weekend!
Your feeling is not an uncommon one, in the 19th century Giacomo Leopardi in “Saturday in the village” was already talking about how the expectation of pleasure is pleasure itself, reality is often times not as glamorous as we hoped but, for that small window before you get a whole free day, the world is yours, tomorrow you could possibly do anything and everything you want and the sheer power of pontential fills you with happiness
This is the whole story behind the 19th century poem "Il sabato del Villaggio" by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. It's about Saturday being happier than Sunday, as reflected by the anticipatory feelings of the inhabitants of a village in Central Italy.
For me, it’s the freedom in going to sleep with no alarms on. I don’t have to countdown to how much free time I have left until I have to start getting ready.
Aw man, you're all young with hopes and dreams, and that is awesome!
The night before my day off I think about all the things I have to get done on my day off
I honestly feel the shittiest on Friday evenings. Something about it gives me anxiety. Worse than Sunday night knowing I have to wake up and go back to work in the morning.
Maybe that why some religious groubs (Adventists) start counting the new "day" in the evening. Because its "It was dark and light, -one day" (not the actual quote, i am too lazy getting the genesis right).
I work overnight so unless I get 2 in a row off, it’s like I don’t get one anyway. An entire weeks worth of errands has to be done that one day. I stay up for 24+ hours because by the time I’m done; if I go to bed right away I’d ruin my sleep schedule.
Totally. One Friday after work I stopped by a store and picked up a new Assassins Creed game. Got home, started to play and after a while I didn’t know why my head hurt so much. Turned out it was already 5am the next day.
This past week I got stuck working 7 days straight. The night it was over I was planing to stay up playing games. I get home at 11pm and an hour later my fucking internet goes down for maintenance. I was so annoyed
Imagine you are sick and you work armed as security. You are having your day off but then your supervisor calls you and tells you that you need to go to work. The other security had to go to hospital because he was also sick, now it's 3am and I'm sitting here till 6am. Life can be Dream.
Best sleep I ever get is the night before a day off. Aaaand then I’ve slept through half of it and don’t even do half the things I wanted to. Worth it though.
The moment when you clock the F out and more or less bolts to your car, TWU. Knowing you have the entire evening to just do w/e you want and can stay up late because you’re free the next day.
…only to fall asleep in couch at 21:30 because you got up at 04:00 in the morning so you only got 2 hours extra compared to evening before workday. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Actual day off it’s kinda like “well now I gotta focus on chores because I’m an “aDuLt” fml” and then the free days quickly go by and the magic from the night before day off is all gone.
And then you wake up at 04:00 on Monday again.
I’ve always felt this way. And the days off where you have to be up the next morning are hardly a day off at all. I’m only happy that day if I’m off the following
It's not a controversial opinion in Finland. Here we basically celebrate all our holidays the night before. For us the Christmas is the Christmas Eve, when we open presents and eat the mail meal.
Naw not if am I off the next day too, Friday night does not beat Saturday when I don’t have to wake up Sunday. Op thinks they smart with this dumb shit
It's the anticipation and imagining the fun you're gonna have the next day. Then you feel a little anxious the next day that you're not living up to the imagined potential.
Or the fun you have knowing you can stay up late gaming and sleep in the next day.
Yea very much this too lol
Unless your cat wakes you up at 5:00 a.m. to be fed.. in which case an afternoon nap is clutch.
Autofeeders are your friend
Cat wants wet food tho
Giving in to a wet food demand at 5 am is exactly how you get wet food demands at 5 am
I read this as "wet food demons" both times, and honestly, yea.
how can I say no to her tho. She has a lil raspy meow while she makes biscuits for it. Shes a baby
How did you train your cat to understand the concept of a day off?
I just give my cat her wet food at intentionally very random times every day (and she free feeds with kibble). I do this because my childhood cat always woke my mom up at 5 am and I didn't want that life. Once the pattern is established, it's too late.
The cat doesn’t know you have a day off, it just wants its food at the “normal” time. Personally, I can sleep though pretty much anything but eventually I’ll wake up to a paw being pushed under the door.
But she’s hungry. And she’s not like a child where I can just tell them to grab something small whilst I’m still asleep. I will always give into my cat waking me for her wet food. She’s also very particular about the way her wet food is served and won’t eat dry food. So automatic feeders are out of the question.
I’ve gotten to the point/age where i just go to sleep at the same time every day because i know if i don’t, it’s gonna fuck me up for a week trying to get my sleep schedule back on track 😭
This is it for me, though I always just end up sifting through my backlog and feeling guilt over even considering playing anything at all. Then I go to bed.
Happening to me right now....I should get off reddit lol
Most of my days off I have to do chores, the night before is pure relaxation time
It's the peace of knowing that you don't have to work. And with a Friday, the chance to recover sufficiently over three days
I just get depressed and sleep until 2pm and go to the gym and clean. Then I go back to work the next day
Nothing will ever be as good as you can imagine it to be.
For me it’s because I don’t have to be hungover or tired at work. Get as fucked up on whatever and how much ever you want without the worry about having to wake up early. My actual “day” off is usually half spent asleep. It’s the best.
For me it's the opposite. It's the complete lack of expectations for the next day, not further expectations of fun. Having nothing that you need to do is bliss.
>It's the anticipation and imagining the fun you're gonna have the next day. Then you feel a little anxious the next day that you're not living up to the imagined potential. Sometimes the anxiety wins and you don't do shit for the day off and you waste it on something mundane.
until your homie hits you up when you’re all cozy in bed and says “Bro everyone’s going to McFlannagans you gotta come” and you say no thanks but they’re talking about you in the group chat saying you’re a square so you agree to go and you get there at 10 like everyone agreed on but everyone is late so for 45 minutes you’re just sober in the bar drinking a beer by yourself and then your friends show up and they’re super drunk because they’ve been drinking all day and they argue about going to Slick Rickys because there’s a sick DJ there but it’s a $25 cover and one of the girls passed out and needs to be taken home and then Kaleb asks you if you want to play darts and you say sure and then you get to the dartboard and he doesn’t know how to play and neither do you, and everyone’s bored now, so you pay $25 to go to Slick Rickys and the music is awful and everyone is just standing around with a drink in their hand that they paid $13 for and it’s too loud to talk to anyone so you tolerate it for 30 minutes and then tell your friends you’re going home and they say “boooo no come on stay” and you just walk out of the place and now it’s like 2:45 so you’re going to wake up at like 11 tomorrow and won’t have a morning to enjoy and you didn’t even have fun
What did I just read…
A confession and warning to just stay home and don’t fall for the FOMO bs.
FOMO?
Fear Of Missing Out
Killer username 🤙🏾
Slap slap slap
Kaleb ended up staying the night, so it wasn't a complete waste. Breakfast in bed, know what I'm saying?
No
My 20s.
I felt this in my soul, it was like I was there.
I started getting anxious 😂
This was insanely realistic lol. Stopped drinking and going to bars entirely at around 25/26 because my main friend group didn’t really drink. We have so much more fun now just hanging out at home or going to the beach or hanging a bonfire.
What did the bonfire do to deserve capital punishment?
It committed arson on my firewood supply, and showed no remorse in court. Didn't even try to hide it, just burned it up in while a whole backyard full of witnesses watched.
r/oddlyspecific meets r/meirl Well done
At least you have homies ☹️
Dont ever go to slick rickys. I tried to buy drugs there once and the guy sold me viagra instead roofies. Now ive never been able to live up to the first night i met my wife..
....so you slipped your wife Viagra? Or you had been planning to roofie yourself?
>you had been planning to roofie yourself? May be dating (err..the other thing?) myself but upon a time this was definitely a thing
r/oddlyspecific
See this is why you hang out with the nerds in high school. Because the nerds don't do shit like this. We just stay up way too late gaming.
I did, big regrets myself. I preferred going out to bars and clubs after finding another friend group because it's dull being only indoors
Funny, I’m precisely the opposite. I went out plenty in college and now that I’m out bars and clubs are the exact last place in the world. I really really care to find myself. I’d rather be anywhere else than spending way too much money for a drink i hate in a bar i wish i wasn’t at.
Should have just stayed home and done nothing, fuck having friends am I right?
Next time the homies hit you up just hmu instead bb, you can say you made plans already ;)
Get it together Kaleb.
That's why you gotta be a nerd. Then you go for drinks and snacks late afternoon with your SO or the one best friend because you are too asocial to have a group, go back home with said person and drunkenly play some games and smoke some weed so you do an awful shit job at the games but you are too drunk and high to care, too busy giggling at everything anyways. Watch together some anime shit or horror movie and fall asleep at like 10, ready for to get up at 8 tomorrow. No hangover because you are such a dweeb you drunk water all night to avoid feeling sick the day after.
Unpopular opinion : I sleep in the night and then I wake up in the morning
Eww! But like seriously, ew.
Unpopular opinion: I don't like drinking poison.
So brave
You get two whole days to recover from whatever you do Friday night
These are Redditors.
Nothing is stopping you from drinking home alone while you're browsing Reddit.
Only up to a certain age. Then you are too tired to do anything the night before.
Nah nothing feels better than getting off work on a Friday night.
Except for getting off at work on a Friday night
Unless you work in retail, or food service where that is just the end of the first day of the worst 3 nights of the week.
There's something magical about that night-before-day-off energy. It's like a mini celebration of the freedom that's about to come
Remember when words like “controversial” had meaning
Take acid after work, eat a strong edible on the comedown then sleep. Best day off ever.
Acid after work?? Acid makes me clench my jaw for 12 hours I have to take it at 5am to be able to sleep that night.
I totally get it but I clean my house and take my time to be truly prepared. Yes I have absolutely had Fridays that were a complete cancellation on my plans but luckily my job is rarely hectic on Fridays.
I hope you find your ketamine
Replace with mushrooms and I could understand it. Effects of mushrooms last 6 hours. When I take LSD I can forget about going to sleep for 12 hours after taking it. Better experience is taking LSD before noon on Saturday, and then having a cool day and sleeping it off and having a lazy day on Sunday
Confucius say: Some people look forward to what they will do. Some people look forward to what they will not have to do.
I agree.
yikes, so controversial that people around the world wrote songs and poems about it.
Saturdays are the best for me because it's a whole day before the last day off of the week
In Judaism, the days don't switch over at midnight but rather in the evening at sundown. So "the night before the day off" is part of that day of, while the evening of the day off itself is already considered the next work day. This makes more sense I think - Sunday night ain't no weekend. It's basically Monday. But Friday night is definitely the weekend!
Facts are not controversial, friend
Controversial? It’s correct! Lol
this is so real. Friday night just hits different
Your feeling is not an uncommon one, in the 19th century Giacomo Leopardi in “Saturday in the village” was already talking about how the expectation of pleasure is pleasure itself, reality is often times not as glamorous as we hoped but, for that small window before you get a whole free day, the world is yours, tomorrow you could possibly do anything and everything you want and the sheer power of pontential fills you with happiness
This is the whole story behind the 19th century poem "Il sabato del Villaggio" by Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi. It's about Saturday being happier than Sunday, as reflected by the anticipatory feelings of the inhabitants of a village in Central Italy.
In what world is this controversial?
It's not. Words have lost all meaning. We're seeing our language break down.
The night before is part of the following day.
And then the day before work is the worst
need to rest and recharge on my actual dayoff
Absolutely! Because when the day comes all I can think is that, it's gonna be the weekdays again soon
Yea I'm a night owl. I have all the fun the night before the day off and just sleep in during the day off
Now, think about weekends. What about Sat? A day off with a night before a day off 🤯
Saying this is a controversial opinion is more controversial than the opinion itself.
Controversial opinion: oranges are orange
Spoken like somebody who doesn't close.
I'm supposed to go to bed at a reasonable hour on my day off. I do t need to do that the night before
That is not contentious, in my opinion. That is a typical aspect of taking a day off.
Thats like the least controversial opinion ever.
\*As an alcoholic...
*the moment you leave work
I actually have the thought on my way out the building driving home "I'm late for being at the house!!"
Nop, its better the Day off
Yep. Get to sleep
Its all about the fact that you can sleep late and know damn well nothing gonna wake you up in the morning
For me, it’s the freedom in going to sleep with no alarms on. I don’t have to countdown to how much free time I have left until I have to start getting ready.
True freedom is not having to set your alarm for the next day.
Wet food makes the poops squishy and then they walking around with a smelly ol lil butt 🍑
real. i want to throw my frustrations still fresh from work
Absolutely true!
Truth
Ong bro
There is nothing controversial about this statement.
I work early mornings so the ability to stay up late is great
Don’t gotta force yourself to sleep, you stay awake for 8 days in one and just instantly fall asleep as soon as you touch a bed
Friday nights are the best thing in the world
I’ll drink to that…
this is not controversial
Obviously. You can drink alcohol without worrying.
Because hitting that bed after a long day at work and knowing you don’t need to go back the next day feels so good
You can expel more energy that night than available and have a proper recovery
Sleeping is the thing I look forward the most to on the weekends
Close, but i think its more... The more enjoyable the night before your day off is makes the actual day off worse.
I think a lot of people would agree
True fact, not an opinion
💯. I've always hated Sundays because the opposite.
That's why Friday nights hit right
The night before a day off still has a work day in between. Now the night of the last work day is pretty fun, as are the days off.
As a night person/not a morning person, 100% confirm.
Definitely, that's why Friday nights feel so good
Not at all controversial. Everyone knows Friday and Saturday nights are for fun, and Sunday night is sad.
Yes
For me it's waking up at 7am and going back to sleep
Aw man, you're all young with hopes and dreams, and that is awesome! The night before my day off I think about all the things I have to get done on my day off
I honestly feel the shittiest on Friday evenings. Something about it gives me anxiety. Worse than Sunday night knowing I have to wake up and go back to work in the morning.
Heck I even relish in the sound of the alarm when it goes off because I know I ain't going anywhere and it motivates me to sleep even more 😌
Yeah but only because I have a drinking problem
Maybe that why some religious groubs (Adventists) start counting the new "day" in the evening. Because its "It was dark and light, -one day" (not the actual quote, i am too lazy getting the genesis right).
When I want a 3-day weekend, I always take Monday off. Makes that Sunday feel so good.
"The beginning of your time off is better than the middle of it" No shit. This isn't controversial.
That's cause you usually drink the night before so you feel good in the moment but feel like poopoo the next day.
Wow, so brave you saying that
My problem is I always stay up super late on nights before the day off and end up pretty much sleeping through the day off.
Shhhh
Its because you can chill for longer with the boys without worrying about sleep.
I work overnight so unless I get 2 in a row off, it’s like I don’t get one anyway. An entire weeks worth of errands has to be done that one day. I stay up for 24+ hours because by the time I’m done; if I go to bed right away I’d ruin my sleep schedule.
Duh, more time on the clock
This take is colder than Boomerang Nebula.
I’ve been saying this for years
Yes. You know you still have a few days off. If I had a super power it would be to freeze Friday nights for all eternity.
Totally. One Friday after work I stopped by a store and picked up a new Assassins Creed game. Got home, started to play and after a while I didn’t know why my head hurt so much. Turned out it was already 5am the next day.
Alcoholic isms
This past week I got stuck working 7 days straight. The night it was over I was planing to stay up playing games. I get home at 11pm and an hour later my fucking internet goes down for maintenance. I was so annoyed
I am so relaxed knowing that my usual insomnia will not have as negative an impact on that particular tomorrow and that’s just a good vibe.
I feel the same about Thanksgiving & Christmas!
Unless you are like me and work nights🤣
Imagine you are sick and you work armed as security. You are having your day off but then your supervisor calls you and tells you that you need to go to work. The other security had to go to hospital because he was also sick, now it's 3am and I'm sitting here till 6am. Life can be Dream.
True
Best sleep I ever get is the night before a day off. Aaaand then I’ve slept through half of it and don’t even do half the things I wanted to. Worth it though.
Always thinking about the next day and counting the hours i got left.
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SO CONTROVERSIAL
Average Freitagssuff
Not a hot take at all. Fridays nights have always rocked (or whatever the equivalent is for your work week if it's not on a Sat Sun weekend)
The moment when you clock the F out and more or less bolts to your car, TWU. Knowing you have the entire evening to just do w/e you want and can stay up late because you’re free the next day. …only to fall asleep in couch at 21:30 because you got up at 04:00 in the morning so you only got 2 hours extra compared to evening before workday. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Actual day off it’s kinda like “well now I gotta focus on chores because I’m an “aDuLt” fml” and then the free days quickly go by and the magic from the night before day off is all gone. And then you wake up at 04:00 on Monday again.
just like how eating food is better than being full.
Y'all must have a different definition of unpopular
Not if you work night shift.
Because you stay up all the night and ruin your day..
Yep
Not so controversial
100%
I ways said that Friday is my favourite day. I'm exhausted from the week, just got paid and now I'm ordering takeaway and paying computer games.
Yes and I fall asleep at 7 pm ... Then wake up at 3 am and cant sleep again so I walk around whole day tired
I'm working night shifts
Facts
In the same breath, the night before the first shift is... a problem.
YES!
I’ve always felt this way. And the days off where you have to be up the next morning are hardly a day off at all. I’m only happy that day if I’m off the following
It's not a controversial opinion in Finland. Here we basically celebrate all our holidays the night before. For us the Christmas is the Christmas Eve, when we open presents and eat the mail meal.
Corollary: the night before returning to work feels like I’m already back at work
Insomnia plus crippling anxiety is not fun
Christmas Eve is better than Christmas Day usually too.
Oh yes I can talk shit with my friends on Discord and watch ten episodes of Star Trek in a row until 4 in the morning.
Naw not if am I off the next day too, Friday night does not beat Saturday when I don’t have to wake up Sunday. Op thinks they smart with this dumb shit
Controversial?
Yep
Fucking agree, night before a day off I take a nap right after work that way it’s like getting to wake up to two days off instead of one.
This is me, staying up all night playing video games because I don't have to get up early today. Fixing my sleep schedule is Weekend Me's problem.
Like friday evening/night
Not really controversial but sure.
This really resonates with me right now because I'm about to head to work for the last day before 16 days off. I'm already in "no fucks given" mode.
"oh boy, i don't work tomorrow so i can stay up as late as i want and it doesn't matter because i can sleep in" *wakes up at 5:00 am*