I am not a morning person. I tell people that they can get bright or early - with me, you will never get both. If you need me to be bright, you don't want to see me before 8:30. With Daylight Savings, it doesn't come until 9:30.
Now, I can cite 2 instances of high school students being hit by cars during the first week of daylight savings on their ways to school - one was a friend of mine in high school and the other was a student involved in our youth group. However, it seems that people are more interested in saving energy than the safety and learning capacity of students. Isn't that why school starts at 7:20 anyway?
So let me just say that Daylight Savings Time only makes me turn on my air conditioner earlier in the day and irritates me greatly - and that either way, I go to bed at about the same time. I think that the irritation that it causes all of us "non-morning" people is not worth the little (if any) energy that is saved.
I like how the ProDST people like to blame the whole concept on farmers and ranchers. I have never met a farmer or rancher that really cared at all about what a clock says. And I've never seen a rooster "springing forward".
So here's my opinion: How about if all the people that want to, just wake up an hour earlier and let me sleep!
Have a nice day, I'm going back to bed . . .
Amen, brother! Non-morning people of the world unite! Eric was raised to believe that sleeping in is practically a sin - his parents are up by 6am even on the weekends! My mom is the same way. But God just didn't make me that way! I could have been asleep 12 hours already, but if the clock says it's earlier than 9am, I'm still tired. So, I'm always glad to find a kindred spirit!
ReplyDeleteThose people that talk about the farmers and ranchers wanting DST haven't talked to farmers and ranchers since candles were the most modern mode of artificial illumination.
ReplyDeletenow the most modern mode of artificial illumination are people who are pro-DST.
seriously, though, in Indiana we spent the last 38 years happily NOT changing our clocks. we were EST all the time, meaning sometimes we were the same time as New York, and sometimes we were the same time as Chicago.
Until this past DST jump forward. for some (political) reason, indiana is now observing DST. they will (most of the state) now be the same time as New York year-round. most people are NOT happy about the changing of the clocks- INCLUDING FARMERS.
it doesn't matter what time the clock says, the cows come home based on sunlight and/or their udders. chores are not done based on wristwatches but on actual, real daylight. so really, the result of springing forward is that when the cows used to come in at, say, 4:00, now they won't come in until 5:00. so the schedules and routines that farmers and ranchers have established in their lives are shot to kingdom come, and farmers have to push all their human stuff back an hour. "Amos won't be at coffee break this week- he's still trying to re-train his cows."
now, maybe there are some farmers that enjoy DST. but no one in my circle of contact has yet found one.
i personally wish it'd never been invented. :) (i too, am NOT a morning person, btw.)