Why Does Everything Have to Be Closed Today; How Can this be a Good Friday?

It's not often in this assimilated country -- a multi-cultural salad it was once explained to me -- I live in that I feel the outsider, but today is one of those days.

I can't pick up my wife's car from the shop or buy berries for my father at the local supermarket.I suppose I should be grateful that there are so few days like this in the calendar, but nonetheless, ungrateful heathen that I am, I am still annoyed. And all this over a crucifixion? At least the weather couldn't be better.