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Well since you ask...
I was born in 1972. At the age of 3 I had learned to read, and at 5 was made head of the cabinet office. The decimalisation of british currency was still a fresh memory in many minds and to allay the clamour of voices calling for a return of the threepenny bit I suggested to the then Prime Minister, Jim Callahan, that we should instigate a 3 day week. The week would be split into two working days and one weekend day. At first this idea was greeted with great enthusiasm, but over the years the short weeks led to shorter months, general confusion and unseasonal weather. Things came to a head with the famous winter of discontent, because in their haste to implement the new 3 day week, December only lasted 16 days, civil service officials had somehow lost Christmas, and nobody got any presents.
Thatcher won the next election, restored the 7 day week, and I was fired, and sent to bed with no tea.
Either that or I just vaguely remember the electricity going off all the time because they were on strike again. And the 3 day week was a conservative measure of course, That's two of my gotcha's you've spotted.