Every Spring I ask myself the same question: Who was the evil mastermind who came up with the idea of Daylight Savings Time?
I really, really don't like Spring Forward. Love Fall Back, but always in the back of my mind is the sober thought that Spring will steal back from me the hour given so freely in November. I just don't get it. What is it that we gain again? Farm workers getting an extra hour in the field? An extra hour to shop in stores? Seriously don't remember.
I only know that for two weeks, I make mental calculations. "I don't really need to go to bed yet because it's really 10:30 pm, not 11:30 pm." "I can't make dinner yet because it's really only 4:30 pm." "I can't get up yet. I know the alarm says 6:00 am, but it's really 5:00 am." The exhaustion of doing the math adds to the sleep deprivation and the result is one cranky sourpuss.
I really think it's some kind of mad plot to overthrow the sane world, but I can't get anyone to admit it.
I guess I'd better go to bed even though it's really only 9:30 pm. 6:00, er 5:00 comes pretty early in the morning.
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I didn't truly come to hate Daylight Savings Time until I became a mother. It seriously messes with a child's schedule...and therefore temperament!
You can blame Benjamin Franklin. He's the evil mastermind. And I believe it was just to make the most of the daylight for the sake of the farmers. But in that case, shouldn't the people who need daylight to do their work just shift their hours? Rather than asking the whole world to do it too?
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