1887 Tracking Dates

Every December it's time to think about a very important thing. Buying a new calendar. Depressing. Not the fact that time is marching on, but that you are so unpopular you actually have to buy a calendar. With any number of charitable and business organizations wanting to remind you to think of them in the upcoming year, you'd figure you'd get at least one calendar for free.
But no, I'm talking about a 22x17 desk blotter calendar. I bought one at Office Depot recently. And it made me worry about our official state of affairs in this country. At least vis-à-vis office work.
In an effort, I suppose, to not have to shrink-wrap the whole thing and still preserve the pristine page of the month of January, the calendar had a front page that was not actually a page you could use. Coincidentally, that meant it was a 13-page calendar in the year 2013. Helping right there to officially launch the year of the phobia.
They decided to make that first page, on which they could have printed anything---like, say, a map of the Office Depot store, where the heck do they have envelopes?---into a sample calendar page. Yep, a sample. Like a demo. Complete with memos scrawled in on various dates.
"Lunch with mom at 12:30," said one on the 15th. And, "Meeting with Jen at 5pm." On the 24th it said, "practice at 8pm," and on the 7th, "take car in for 30k mile service at 7:30 am." This guy apparently has a mechanic that also takes cars in at 7:30 at night.
Still, it's sad to see a demo page. I'm worried. Maybe the new generation is so caught up in smarty-pants phones and apps, they've forgotten how to work a calendar.
America, ya gotta love it.