How Wednesday Became Hump Day

Last  Wednesday, in my post, I posed the question, "Why is Wednesday called hump day?"

I had searched Google for an answer to that question and received an AI response that the expression could not be attributed to a specific person.

I wasn't satisfied with that because I knew there had to be more to it than that. As Paul Harvey would have said, "Here is the rest of the story."

MUCH MORE TO THE ANSWER

I dived deeper to find information from human sources. A quick perusal of the SERPS showed a response a few years ago from someone on Quora  who stated that the phrase originated in 1965 from a man standing around a water cooler at a Dupont plant.

I could find nothing to back up that assertion. The same Quora respondent also said that in 1975 J. J. Cale wrote a song titled Friday, and that the phrase “Wednesday's hump day," was part of the lyrics.

Intrigued, I tried to find that song and found it mentioned in various Google SERPs, but I couldn't find the lyrics or other information. Next, I went to Lyrics.com and searched there.

Apparently, Cale wasn't the only one who used the phrase in a song. In fact, the search engine at Lyrics showed "968 lyrics and 126 artists matching the "hump day" search string.

At that point, I decided I'd wasted enough time on the quest, but I did have fun making a cute graphic I'll use in future Wednesday posts.

TAKEAWAY TRUTH

Being curious eats up a lot of time that I probably could have used in a better pursuit—like working on my book in progress. Do you ever get distracted like that?

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