Perhaps that's why an otherwise unremarkable teen-age boy spends Saturdays like these in a soup kitchen serving the hungry.

In the 1940's Robert B. Peltz used to spend Saturdays unloading crates of apples at his father's produce warehouse.

They regularly work five 9- or 10-hour days, and often spend Saturdays at the sewing machines as well.

The couple became friendly with him and, by the mid-1970's, Ms. Fiore, 77, a former opera singer, was spending Saturdays at his studio.

"They want to spend Saturdays with their friends," Dr. Guzman said, "even if that means spending it at school."

I used to spend Saturdays with them.

They are the ones who shun convention, sneak cigarettes and spend Saturdays in the East Village.

His parents came from Israel to support him, and many of his friends would spend Saturdays with him at the rehabilitation center.

We spent all our Fridays and Saturdays mapping our routes for open houses.

He often spent Saturdays alone, reading, at the Brooklyn Public Library.