Pay day syndrome

A lawyer called it a “pay day economy,” i.e., nobody pays for anything until pay day, which normally comes twice a month, on the 15th and 30th.

- JULLIE Y. DAZA

And when The Day arrives, it’s Christmas — we eat out, go shopping or supermarketing, pay some of the more urgent bills like the rent and before the electricity is cut off, for example, then take home a special dish for the wifey or buy a toy or two for the kids. Without pay day, what would life be? Summer without sunshine, springtime without flowers — what a bleak time, indeed!