I wish I could tell you that this was not going to be a post about the time change, but this is going to be a post about the time change. I have a distaste for daylight savings time. I get up early. When the time changes, it is dark when I get up. The sun did not come up until 7:45 this morning. Or rather, the sun came up when it always does but we all got up an hour early. I think that’s wack.
Daylight savings time was supposed to be good for farmer’s, I think. Either them or the manufacturers who relied on sunlight to illuminate their factory. Then they figured out that the workers would be more productive if they bricked up the windows and lit the building with electric lights. And since there is no manufacturing in this country any more anyway, why are we still doing daylight savings time?
Because you are a bunch of lazy people, that’s why. If you really wanted to enjoy all this daylight, you’d get up at 5:00 ad go for a jog or something. But that’s not what you do. You try to get the best of both worlds through legislation. Let me tell you this though, my friend. Sloth cannot be ended by laws passed by some distant legislature up in Washington. If you want to stop your lethargic ways, you have to get up early. When it’s dark.