Letter from America

[Administrator]

Howdy y'all, and welcome to this week's Letter from America, now broadcasting from its new regular slot of noon on Sunday.
It's Labor Day Weekend out here, or Socialist-Entitled De-Productivity Day, as the Conservatives like to call it. Which is basically the same Bank Holiday weekend you got last week in the UK, except that instead of getting to laze around on the last Monday of August as do Britons, Americans have to wait until the first Monday of September. Making me wonder if someone on the Mayflower lost their calendar, or perhaps the ship's clock broke on the way over here.
In a flagrant display of my advancing years, I still associate Bank Holidays with arcades. Growing up in the early 80s near the seaside town of Aberystwyth on the west coast of Wales, I spent most of my summers on the Royal Pier, playing arcade games until I was skint. Whereupon I'd carefully start nudging one of the arcade's several Penny Falls machines to knock a few coins down without setting the alarm off, so I could continue playing.
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