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Note to
reader: this letter refers to a former rant in which tiny
dog proclaims a total hatred of Daylight Savings Time (DST).
Dear Tiny
Dog:
No, this
is not a letter regarding some misunderstood happenstance with
a mangey mongrel. I too, would like to express my utter disgust
with one of life's biggest "why"s.....Daylight Savings
Time (DST).
It's hard
enough dealing with a Significant Other (S.O.) who is a grump
in the morning and has a hard enough time getting out of bed already!
It took me a while to get used to being scared wide awake by him
slapping the alarm clock's snooze button with heated energy even
though he was still half asleep. NOW, thanks to DST, I have to
listen to him groan "I want my hour back" every morning!
So now I get to listen to this for the next six months, or however
long the "people who have no right to be in charge"
have decreed this nonsense to last?
Not only
that, this blasted time change thing has brought another little
nuance of my beloved fiance to light - he refuses to change his
watch to match the correct time! Now those of you out there reading
this that are world travelers who refuse to switch their watches
to match the current time zone....this I understand. Your visit
to another state or country is probably temporary (lasting a period
shorter than six months or whatever I referred to in the previous
paragraph). But what of my S.O's opinion that he is not going
to set his watch ahead an hour because, as he put it, "I
want to be reminded that they took my hour away." They? Who's
"they"? Hmm. It occurs to me that I may be engaged to
someone who may have a movie made about him years from now, directed
by Ron Howard and starring some hunky Australian actor.
Dearest Tiny
Dog, I just wanted to let you know you are not alone in hating
DST. And I thought the bit about going "for a bracing jog
after drinking their wheatgrass in the pitch dark silence of the
kitchen" was a fine piece of verbage!
Yours in
Spirit,
Befuddled
in Bleary-Eyed in Bellevue
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Dear
befuddled,
Oh
the great shame of tiny dog in not responding to such a finely
crafted letter as this while we were still all actually, bitterly
noticing this lost hour--- for alas, here we are finally reaping
the benefits of this arcane clock-tampering custom now that the
occasional sunny day is mighty long indeed. Tiny dog may in fact
be replying to this outdoors on a very advanced hour of a sunny
June day.
The
question still remains of whether this aforementioned beloved
fiancé still in fact keeps his watch set to standard time---
tiny dog is certain that he does not, now that we are in the glorious
month of June, a month when all of us erstwhile DST whiners are
secretly enjoying this extra evening hour, including this formerly
stalwart fiancé!!
Damn
the weakness of our convictions!! Damn the seductively gradual
tradeoffs of this scourge of the clocks, and how easily we eat
from the hand of the bureaucracy when we grow fat and complacent
on these meager tradeoffs!!! Oh, wretchedness!!
Wretchedly,
tiny-dog
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