Brian Williams forgot Monday was Holiday

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Brian Williams accidentally shows up for work on Monday after The Fourth of July:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_636006.html
Whoops!

"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams accidentally showed up to work Monday, unaware it was a holiday.

Williams wrote on his Daily Nightly blog:

I guess I didn't think it through. I saw that July 4th fell on a Sunday this year, and figured Monday would be a standard workday. I tore myself away from my beloved Jersey Shore (where my son reports it's one of the all-time great beach days) and came into work today, only to find: it was as if someone made an announcement that the last person left in New York City would have cooties. You can roll a bowling ball down 6th Avenue outside our building and watch it fall off the other end of the island into the Hudson River. There's no one here. The company bought us cheeseburgers today (baked beans, apple pie, nice) because there are so few places to get take-out. So I'll say this: we have a broadcast full of news, we've been working on it all day, and we're anxious to share it with you. If you happen to be near a TV, that would be great. We hope you can join us tonight, and happy (belated) 4th of July.
Williams led the broadcast Monday night with a subtle reference to working while most of the country had the day off.

"Millions of Americans are enjoying a little extra Fourth of July vacation time on this fifth of July,"

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/...way_166701.asp
As most of our readers probably know, Sunday was July 4, and many offices around the country were closed yesterday due to the Holiday. One of those offices was NBC Universal, but someone forgot to tell "NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams, who showed up for work anyway.

Williams, writing on the Daily Nightly blog, describes the scene when he arrived for work yesterday morning:

[I]t was as if someone made an announcement that the last person left in New York City would have cooties. You can roll a bowling ball down 6th Avenue outside our building and watch it fall off the other end of the island into the Hudson River. There's no one here. The company bought us cheeseburgers today (baked beans, apple pie, nice) because there are so few places to get take-out.
Seems that Williams thought that because Independence Day fell on a Sunday this year, it would be back to the grind on Monday for most workers.

As The Huffington Post notes, Williams opened the broadcast with a subtle reference to his decision to come into work: "Millions of Americans are enjoying a little extra Fourth of July vacation time on this fifth of July..."

Don't worry about it Brian, it happens to the best of us.




here's a few tips for him on how to tell it's a holiday:
1. You go for the mailbox, looking for your residual check from '30 Rock,' your copy of Us Weekly and the weekly Stop & Shop circular, and it's not there.

2. You go to the bank, looking to cash that two-dollar printer paper refund check from Staples, and it's closed for the day.

3. Your bag full of spent fireworks and Topps hamburger patty boxes (bought and frozen before their massive recall a couple of years back) goes uncollected.

4. You tune in to the 'Today' show and you see Lester Holt, Amy Robach, and someone from The Weather Channel you've never heard of.

5. You go to work and the aforementioned Holt is in your makeup chair, reading from a news script and drinking out of your 'Firemen Like It Hot And Smoky' mug.