If you were to compare the working week to an animal what would it be? A dog, because of how hard you work from Monday to Friday? Probably not. A rat because of the way you’re constantly racing around to get that hard earned cheese before you hide away in your house for the weekend? Well, close but no cigar…actually not even a clove cigarette. If the trending topics are any indication of how the real-time internet user treats the working week you’d be hard pressed to find a better comparative creature than a good ol’ Dromedary Camel. Something seems to happen in the minds of a good deal of search engine users once they hit the weekday wall known as Wednesday. If I’ve noticed anything about real-time trending topics , it’s that like clockwork around noon on Wednesday the word “Hump” seems to be a hotter topic than the latest Lohan-fueled travesty or celebrity death-athon.
While it’s true people could be talking about getting a quickie in the office supply closet or forgetting to pluralize their favorite Fergie song, the endless stream of hump-centric tweets prove this is decidedly not so as evidenced by celebratory users like @psychosmatic: trumpeting “It’s Hump Day!!! Woo-hoo” or @noinyc trying to elicit a tweet of support from her favorite New Kid On The Block “@DonnieWahlberg DDUb! It was my birthday yesterday. Can I get some love on hump day?”
For the most part people seem enamored with the concept that they are halfway through the working week, wearing it like a badge of honor as if Thursday was no longer a hurdle on the way to Friday, the day in which they’re finally in the clear from bosses and responsibilities. Until people learn to treat their weekly responsibilities as a 200M sprint instead of the 500M hurdles we’ll no doubt continue to see that hump day notice pop up every week instead of treating Wednesday like just another day.
