This is kind of ironic, but this year on Christmas I was in the emergency room, while my wife, and I were visiting my family. I drug my butt into work Friday, because...
1. I'll be damned if I'm going to lose my Holiday pay.
2. I'll be damned if I'm going to use a priority day of vacation when I'm sick.
The real irony is that I have never been ill the day before or the day after a holiday, it was a fluke senario.