13 Things People Who Hate Mondays Will Understand

The salad eating, gym-regime-starting, worst day of the week.

By Sara Weir /

Monday: universally acknowledged as being the absolute worst day of the week. The majority of you are back at work and if you're not in your mundane 9-5 office job, you're doing crazy shift patterns that make you so tired that you're never quite sure whether you're coming or going. You're always hoping for some sort of last-minute snow storm that will miraculously allow you another day in bed, but unfortunately, life is cruel and work always finds a way. Unfortunately when you've just had a full two days off side by side, you feel like getting up for work on a Monday morning can be physically painful, and all the cookies in the world couldn't put a smile on your face. Instead, you drag yourself out of bed and already hate the day ahead of you for what it is. The worst 24 hours of every week. Or at least the worst 8 when you're actually in work: at least for the rest you can just go back to hibernating and wait for the week to properly begin on Tuesday.

13. It's The Start Of Another Countdown

You spend all of your week wishing for the weekend, praying to win the lottery and then on Sunday nights, you'll hope that your workplace has been the subject of a terrible act of vandalism meaning that you can't possibly go into work tomorrow. You spend the majority of your time counting down hours; until lunch time, until home time and then until the weekend comes again. Repeat this every week until retirement.