Generally, when there is a holiday around the weekend, people go on vacation and enjoy the long weekend. If people are fond of travelling, they keep waiting for such long weekends. Now it is the month of August and the festival of Raksha Bandhan is on 19th August.
Just before this, 17th and 18th August are Saturday and Sunday i.e. long weekend. Before this, there is also a government holiday on 15th August (Independence Day). Therefore, offices, schools and colleges will open only on 16th. In such a situation, many people think that why not take a day off on some pretext and go on a holiday with the family for the whole week.
This time too, many memes are viral on social media about how people are going to make excuses in such a situation.
A person has shared the scene of a dialogue from the web series Panchayat – ‘I don’t feel anything good inside…” and wrote that on August 16, everyone is going to make the same excuse.
While another said – Saturday Sunday on 24th and 25th August and Janmashtami on 26th i.e. another long weekend.
A user has made a calendar for August and shown a picture of a person suffering from chest pain on some working days other than the long weekend, saying that people will make excuses like this these days.
Another shared a meme and said that most of the people are going to take sick leave on 16th August.