Anish Day

An Anish Day is an English idiom for taking a work day off for enjoyment with a colorful excuse to company management.

Some example of excuses might be:

• The gas company has to read my meter once a year and this was the only time they would come.


• The water meter guy and the gas meter guy were both leaving cards on my door about me not being home, and they got into a fight about whose meter was better, and I have to go home and clean up.


• I have to get my car to the shop. If I don’t get it there in half an hour it’ll be locked out all weekend.


• My dog has a rash all over, and the vet closes early today.


• I’m arranging financing for a car.


• The refrigerator I ordered umpteen weeks ago has arrived and this was the only time they could deliver it.


• My back aches.


• My central air conditioning won’t stop running, and the goldfish are getting freezer burn.


• I have to take my mother to the doctor.


• I’m having my eyes checked this noon, and they put drops in them so I won’t be able to work afterwards.


• I’m having a root canal.


• I have to rearrange my savings so that there is no more than $100,000 in any one federally insured institution.


• I have to renew my driver’s license.


• I have to get new license plates.


• I’m going to my best friend’s engagement party.


• I’m going to my best friend’s wedding.


• I’m going to my best friend’s divorce.


• I have a seriously overdue library book that I have to return.


• I have a bunch of old parking tickets, and if I don’t pay them I’m going to be arrested.


• I just found out that I was switched at birth. Legally, I shouldn’t come to work knowing my employee records may now contain false information.

The phrase pulling an Anish is used when someone is out of office for taking an Anish Day.