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[ZebraRampage]

I've experienced the confusion in this as well. I went for the third option, because sometimes when the weekend is just ending, I refer to the following weekend as the next weekend. Though, mostly I refer to next weekend as the weekend after the upcoming weekend.

[Typhoid]

I was having a shower today and for some reason thinking about what was said in the first post about being in line at a store where "Next customer" means the next person in line, and not the person behind them.

So I was thinking...

"Next Customer" means the second in the line. If someone calls "Next customer", it is because the current customer (customer 1) is now finished, and customer 2 (being the next customer after customer 1) is now the current customer. Moving everyone up 1 in the customer rotation.

Which means "Next Customer" does not mean 'current', or 'third', it always denotes the second customer. If they are talking about the customer they are currently helping, they would never say "I am helping the next customer, and I need a price check" - because that customer is the current customer. The next customer is the customer behind the current one.

Thusly also making [with this comparison] "Next Weekend" the weekend after the upcoming, or current weekend, and never the closest weekend.