Raise your hand if you hate Monday mornings.

*looks around*

Right. Well, me too. Still, I bet that the ship boys in the Navy of old hated them even more:

And the waggery and idleness of the ship-boys are paid by the boat-swain with the rod, and commonly this execution is done upon the Monday mornings, and is so frequently in use, that some mere seamen and sailors do believe in good earnest that they shall never have a fair wind, until the poor boys be duly brought to the chest, that is, whipped every Monday morning. – N. Boteler, “Colloquia Maritima, or Sea Dialogues”, 1688.

I love that. Oh, you’re innocent? Too bad; somebody has to be flogged on a Monday morning, or we’ll all sink.