I have a sneaking suspicion that our numbers may drop a little today. Why? Well, as today is the first day of the New start of Daylight Saving Time most of our readers will probably already have had their fill of getting dirty looks from the boss by coming into work an hour late.
I have never really grasped the idea of Saving daylight. The idea strikes me as very similar to trying to keep a snowball to give to your friends in Florida. And, trust me, when you try that all you get is a pocket full of cold water and the feeling that you’ve just had a very cold pee in your pants.
Maybe my problem with the idea is the fact that I tend to lose tangible things with a startling regularity. You know how it is, you get that check from your parents on your birthday and you put it somewhere “safe” until you have some time to go cash it. Next thing you know you find it two years later when you move and it falls out of some book you haven’t touched in ages. Now, try doing that with something you can’t actually see. It could be decades before you sort out just where you hid that spare hour that someone stole from you saved for you.
I do like the idea that Congress is trying to move back the dates on Daylight Saving Time. My personal suggestion is that they shift it even further. Say, start on January 1st and end on December 31st. Maybe I should write my Congressmen about that.
Stay tuned for more fun with saving daylight this week on Drunken Pumpkin.
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