In the Crosswalk

The jist is, at some point in human history, the weekend was invented. Before then, humans (us) worked when we had to to do the stuff we needed to to survive. At some point, enough of us existed that we could have weekends, and relax, and party, and become alcoholics or abusers, and get into rehab (and there were people to help you out of rehab), and people to guard people who were habituals ...

Well. Are we better now?