Why, why, why?

Sorry for those of you that saw this on my Facebook post - I just really think that its worth mentioning....

Let's imagine that your boss told you to get to work by 6:00 just one day because he wanted to get out by 3:00 because he had a lot of things to do before sundown. Something tells me that 90% of America would tell this boss to go jump in a lake - and yet this is exactly what we do as a nation for the entire summer.

And, just curious, who exactly benefits from this that couldn't just get their own butt out of bed an hour earlier without interupting the rest of the world?

Accidents are up. Productivity is down. It doesn't save energy. And the whole farmers thing is just a crock. So, why do we really keep doing this?

Boycott Daylight Savings Time

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 . . .