How Dare You!

 The "You" in this case being "I"  

I must admit that I do use a wall calendar, retro as that may be, to write in my appointments or other significant doings. This year, it was the complimentary offering by the Hoosic Valley Volunteer  Fire Co. that I hung on my refrigerator, and charted in all my life happenings. That is, up until I wanted to add a future appointment, and found that the last month of the calendar was  October 2023. So I related this disappointment, somewhere, on some site. 

    You would think I had impugned the integrity of  firefighters in total, according to one response. He stressed how many years of his life he had dedicated, volunteered, to his work as a member of the Fire Company, explaining that the calendar ended in October because that is Fire Prevention Week. 

   Well, that is an important point to make, but it really makes no sense, does it. If the purpose of the calendar is to provide publicity for the Fire Company, and thereby elicit donations, it would be beneficial for the people who have the calendar to display  and  use it year-round, as a constant reminder of their valuable work. 

 I will not use this iteration of a calendar. I will use a calendar that has 12 month pages, from January to January. Whoever came up with the October Ending should reconsider, and add 2 more months. Why the heck not...