• I'm from the UK, so it's just like any other day to me, so no holiday. On the other hand, I didn't know the US has so few bank holidays, even though, (I believe), a lot of other EU countries have more than the UK.

    The main thing that annoys me about UK bank holidays is that there's a huge gap between them in the autumn, ('fall' for any US readers), where we don't have any for two months, or so. Yet there's pretty much one a month throughout the rest of the year. That, and we don't have any bank hols for the English Saint, (whose name escapes me right now).

    Can I just point out that, (to the best of my knowledge, as I don't have time to verify this), Washington wasn't the first president ever. He was the first president of a united america. Though I don't remember who actually was the very first.

    Paul