So, here we are again screwing with the clocks, and not just the clocks on the wall. The time change screws with my body clock as well and makes me a very unhappy camper for a week or so. The question that really needs to be asked is, is it really worth screwing with the time for four months out of the year? I think not, not in the least is it worth it to me.
I have heard all the so called “reasons”, farmers need more daylight to work the fields and their livestock and we don’t need kids standing waiting for the school bus in the pitch dark morning hours. First let me say that the farming reason is a load of BS, the work gets done in the daylight and doesn’t make a rat’s ass one bit of difference what the clock on the wall says as far as the time, farming and ranching isn’t a 7:00 to 4:30 job, it never has been and most likely never will. Even the big corporate farms still have people running them that can schedule work to be done based on daylight hours.
Those precious little youngsters waiting for the bus in the mornings shouldn’t be waiting at the bus stop by themselves no matter what time of the year it is, there are just too many nut jobs loose in the USA these days that will harm these kids. These nut jobs don’t care if the sun is up or if it is pitch dark, kids standing at school bus stops without some adult protection is pure stupidity on the part of the parents of these kids. So you can throw that argument in favor of daylight savings out.
We can pretty much give up on the congress and senate tackling the big problems in this country, I would think that they could at least get rid of this situation; people will still remember to change the batteries in their smoke alarms. That was the other thing they would tell you each fall, “be sure and change the batteries in your smoke alarm when you set your clocks back.” Smoke alarms are smart enough that the alarm will chirp at you when the battery gets low, and it will damn sure drive you crazy until you do change it. So toss that reason out with other two, it doesn’t hold water just like the others.
I know that states can opt out of the daylight savings program, but there shouldn’t be a program it should be done away with. If they can’t fix health care, or the time, just what good are these people running the country? Oh, that’s right, hearings; they are good at holding hearings, hearings and investigations. The thing about those two things that they are good at; never results in anything that is worth a hill of beans to the ordinary person.
We know they can’t budget, or even agree on a budget; if they actually could this country wouldn’t be twenty trillion dollars in debt. That right there is proof enough that we need change, and I am not talking about springing the clock forward or falling the time back in the fall.
I might just be a little cranky for a few days, so please bear with this bear while I work to get my internal clock reset.
Until next time,
@sultnpapper
