Protestant says “That’s quite an assumption.”
Today is a Holy Day of Obligation. Did you request off from Work or attend Mass already?
Ha! That was yesterday in the Philippines. Work? Don’t use four-letter words with me, young man.
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I wouldn’t skip mass on a holy day of obligation on purpose, but maybe ten years ago I left w_rk an hour early to go to a holy day mass, and the train was an hour late! I paid for the train too (in another thread, this was exposed as a possible sin), but because the train was so late, I may have gotten a free-ride certificate to use another time. I think this was like a transportation indulgence. 
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In 2010, this letter I wrote was published in the Arlington (Virginia) Catholic Herald:
Sometimes I wonder, “Who took the feast out of feast day?” When a feast day falls on a work day, in order to attend Mass, I have to leave work early, make up the time or use vacation, and have a late dinner (usually not a feast). I disagree with George Weigel’s proposal to make more feasts obligatory (“Countercultural Time,” Nov. 18-24). I like going to Mass. Nobody has to come after me with a stick. But I don’t want it to be a sin not to be there, which brings up another problem: The Church defines failing to meet the holy day obligation as a serious matter. Since holy days themselves, unlike the commandment to keep the Lord’s day holy, could be serious obligations or not, depending on which holy days the Church chooses for obligatory status, I fear that to have missing Mass be a potential mortal sin (if full knowledge and consent are present) detracts from other serious matters such as abortion or divorce and remarriage. I would rather see more feasts that entice people to attend, instead of more feasts on which people might incur guilt. So who did take the feast out of feast day?
Peace to all,
Who would miss, The Assumption,
And She’s buying a stairway to Heaven