We Close At 6

I work from 10am to 7pm Mon-Fri. Yes, I work from home, so I'm afforded some freedoms within that time, but it's still annoying that, when I get to the end of my workday (especially if I have to work any amount of overtime), almost everything is already closed. Even bars are starting to close early. Not that I really drink anymore, but it used to be you could close out a bar at 4am. Now, you're lucky if they're open past 11pm.

Where this translates from annoyong to dangerous, however, is grocery stores and pharmacies. But for a sacred few stores, CVS and Walgreens close at 10pm. A lot of local pharmacies close at 6. Even grocery stores that don't close until 1am have started locking off their health and beauty sections after 11pm. This means that, if you get sick during the witching hour (as I almost exclusively do), and you have to go to urgent care, you're not getting that prescription filled until at the earliest 6 hours later, because CVS doesn't open their pharmacies until 10am, baby.

That's assuming you can even find an urgent care center that's open past 7pm. The world increasingly seems to be built around the concept that nothing important needs to be done between when someone starts their workday and when they end it, and that's entirely backwards from the way it should be, right?

I'm not saying we need to bring everything back 24 hours, but if you're a night owl like me, and you have ideas about how we can rebuild a healthy night culture, drop me a line. My Bluesky isn't hard to find.