The Week Is on Everyone's Mind

The week becomes salient for basically everybody in America because it's not just like city dwellers whose weeks are filled with lots of different kinds of scheduled activities that know about the week. Eventually, it seems like the week is something that's on everybody's mind. For those who lived in small towns and on farms, fewer activities distinguished one weekday from the next but even they would anticipate the arrival of the weekly mail or follow the schedules of a train or stagecoach that passed through regularly on specific weekdays.