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Busiest for Boating
According to the Boat Owners Association of the United States, on July 4th thousands of boaters take to the waterways for recreational boating's busiest day of the year. It's also the day of the year that brings the most calls for help as firework displays bring a lot of boaters closely together at a dangerous time -- at night.
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Busiest for Firemen
Speaking of fireworks, the proliferation of these pyrotechnic devices on July 4, create a busiest day of the year for another group of folks -- firemen. Like many communities across the country, the July Fourth holiday is always the busiest day of the year for New York City public safety agencies, including not only fire, but police and EMS.
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Pizza's Busiest Day
If you're planning on ordering a few pies on Superbowl Sunday, you may want to order early! Each year, Pizza Hut handles 2.5 million calls on "Big Game" day, making it their busiest day of the year. (Halloween trails right behind as the second busiest for most pizzerias.)
Click through our gallery to see 19 more "busiest days." Some of them may surprise you!
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Urgent Care Centers
Urgent care centers can be quite busy any day of the year, peaking when access to primary care is limited, like at night and on weekends. The busiest times of the day tend to be 9-11AM and 4-7PM. But the overall busiest day of the year for most walk-in clinics has traditionally been the day after Christmas. Why? Most people push themselves to get through the holidays and then end up needing to be seen by a doc when it's all over.
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Busiest Day for Plumbers
The day after Thanksgiving is the busiest day of the year for plumbers. While visiting friends and relatives may overload toilets and shower drains, the biggest plumbing problem is people assuming a sink garbage disposal can grind and flush just about anything, like turkey bones. If you want to avoid the post-turkey plumbing call, scrape your plates into the trash, not down the drain.
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Busiest Day for Disney
New Year's Eve is traditionally the busiest day of the year at Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California, where the parks stay open late and the usual nightly fireworks are supplemented by an additional New Years-specific show at midnight.
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Busiest for KFC
What to do when mom's not cookin'? Seems many head to KFC for a bucket of chicken. According to Yum Investors annual report, Mother's day is traditionally the busiest day of the year for KFC restaurants.
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Applebee's To Go
Another restaurant that gets a holiday-related boost is Applebee's. Valentine's day is historically the single busiest day of the year for their Carside To Go service -- where guests phone ahead orders, drive to the restaurant, park in a dedicated Carside spot and have their food delivered right to their car. Company execs speculate that customers may be seeking "a quiet romantic evening at home with great food, but without the dirty dishes."
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The January 7 Trifecta
January 7 is the busiest day for divorce lawyers, travel agents and job hunters. When the strain of the holidays prove too much for people and they begin to ponder turning over new leaves, it seems many decide to exit their marriages, find new jobs and book their summer holidays on this very busy day.
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Busiest for Collect Calls
Sorry, Dad -- this day's for you! Historically, more collect phone calls are made on Father's Day than on any other day of the year. While Mother's Day is the biggest holiday for phone calls in general, it's dads who get the top honor of their progeny sticking them with the bill for the call. (According to Snopes.com, the overall busiest day of the year for all phone calls, including holidays and non-holidays, is the Monday after Thanksgiving.)
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Busiest for Florists
It's probably no surprise that Feb. 14 is the busiest day for florists based on consumer purchases of fresh flowers (not including plants).
Fun Fact: The estimated number of roses produced for Valentine's Day in 2007 was 214 million. (Source: Society of American Florists)
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Busiest for Chinese Food Restaurants
On Dec. 25, Chinese restaurants do some of their briskest business of the year. Jewish customers account for much of this patronage, as Chinese food has long been a popular destination for Jews on Christmas when few other restaurants are open.
(Source: CBSNews.com)
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Busiest for Air Travel
Forget everything you think you know about the busiest day of the year for air travel. It's not the Wednesday before or the Sunday after Thanksgiving. As a matter of fact, holiday air travel does not even crack the year's top 20 busiest days. Those fall in the summer. According to analysis by USA TODAY (done in Dec. 2007), the busiest day for the previous year was actually, Friday, Aug. 4. Surprise!
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Busiest for Shopping
Black Friday is NOT the busiest shopping day. Snopes.com says the consistent holiday shopping trend is that sales spike on the day after Thanksgiving, drop sharply afterwards, then steadily increase, peaking on the four days comprising the two weekends before Christmas. The result is that Black Friday nearly always ends up ranking below the last Saturday before Christmas (or Dec. 23, if X-mas falls on a weekend.)
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Busiest for Online Shopping
Cyber Monday -- which comes three days after Black Friday -- is a big online shopping day, but it isn't the biggest -- or even in the top five. "Green Monday," a term coined by eBay to describe the second Monday in December as the heaviest online spending day took first place in 2007. The next busiest online shopping days (based on spending) were: Dec. 11, Dec. 6, Dec. 5 and Dec. 4.
(Source: comScore Inc.)
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Busiest Day for Mail
According to the United States Postal Service, the busiest mailing day of the year is the third Monday in December. In 2007, this day fell on Dec. 17. On this day, Americans entrust almost 1 billion pieces of mail with the USPS. About 275 million pieces of that total will be cards and letters, more than three times the average daily volume of 82 million.
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Busiest for Grocery Stores
According to Progressive Grocer, on a weekly basis, the largest percentage of consumers hit their local supermarket on Sunday, with 21% of the week's traffic. Saturday follows behind with 18%. The busiest day of the year overall, is generally thought to be the day before Thanksgiving.
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Busiest for Births
"National Birth Day," as the New York Times calls it, used to always fall in mid-September. But starting in '97, it fell between Christmas and New Year's in four of seven years for which the government has released stats. (It was still in September during the other years.) Why? NYT surmises that many now try to push up January births to late December to maximize tax benefits and take advantage of family help over the holidays.
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Brand Names That Rock
Do you call all portable MP3 players "iPods," no matter what the brand? If so, you're not alone. Like many brand icons before it, the iPod name is commonly being used to describe all similar products, whether iPod® or not.
We take a look at what we call 20 different products -- and what we probably mean.
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