I’ve finally figured out what has completely and totally fucked up the good ol’ U.S. of A…Daylight Savings Time! I have realized that the one thing the Arizona Republic got right was never switching to daylight savings time!! (I do think they were wrong on MLK day, however [and I still would have preferred a Malcom X Day over the MLK Day {cuz Malcom X had it ‘dead on’!}])
For almost 6-months-of-the-year – I am completely out-of-sync: NOTHING feels right! Sex is weird; surfing is weird; swimming is weird; food and drink don’t taste as good; music is off-kilter; and, work is more detestable than in those 6-good-months. In fact I would just as soon hibernate during the months of daylight savings time and wake to live with proper rhythm of the sun. It’s basically like having a 6-month hangover! If we “lost” this stupid time change, I would only miss out on one glorious day – the day that we “fall back” and get that extra-hour- of-sleep: which is a glorious experience for those of us who have been working for 30-years-or-more.
Why do we even screw around with the clocks anymore? My informal surveys of my fellow man and woman have them reporting that they hate the event as much as I do (if not more).
I’ve heard that daylight savings time was instituted to facilitate an extra working hour for the autumn harvest. That makes sense for a pre-industrialized farm – but now, I’m pretty sure that your average farmer can run that tractor from dawn-till-dusk and do ten times (if not a 100 times) the work that your average slaves did.
Others tell me that daylight savings time was instituted to save energy. How the Hell does daylight savings time save energy?! The lights are on when it’s dark…what does it matter whether they come on an hour later if they stay on an hour longer? I just don’t get it!?
Still others suggest that daylight savings time prevents the little kiddies from walking to school in the dark. I don’t know about the entire U.S. – but whether we’re on daylight savings time or not — we seem to have plenty of sunlight by 8:00am – and the Arizona Republic has never complained (particularly with the influx of 2 million or more in the past 25 years [and all-of-these-folks coming from places that practice the idiotic time change]). Besides, how many kids haerve you seen walking (or even biking) to school in recent years?!
I’m tired of this whole daylight savings time fiasco – and would like this year to be the absolute last time we have to deal with it. All it does is throw close to 300 million people out-of-whack for half-the-year. But what I embarrassed to note is that Persian Girlfriend Giti pointed out to me that Iran is on a half hour. I furiously queried how one could be on a half hour – when every other country I’ve ever been to is on that 24-hour clock which flows from the Prime Meridian. No wonder we have invaded and made Iran our 51st State – those Persians are hiding in between time zones…