Is that a STAR WARS Cough?

Mod-Blog in no way endorses or encourages this idea. But The New York post is reporting that an estimated 9.54 million American workers may be playing hooky the first two days of the release of Revenge of the Sith (next Thursday and Friday). Allegedly, this would cost employers as much as $627 million. Frankly, it is much ado about nothing. Most employees actually ask for time off for things like this in my experience, so I doubt that many employers won't be able to PLAN for the vacation days. Not all, certainly, but most. As for me, we have tickets for the first showing on Saturday of that week, so I shouldn't have to miss any work. God willing. (You never know when the boss might suddenly broach the idea of working on a weekend.)