Why didn't they ask us?

Good & timely post.

We've been dealing with it for a long, longh time.

No big deal really..

I doubt the 90% figure too , my informal polling has shown it to be about 60-40 , with DST losing . More folks hate it than not .

I remember when we had it when I was a kid. On the evening of the time change Dad would pull out the stem of his wristwatch and adjust the hour hand one number, do the same to the mantel clock, and the one on the kitchen wall. All done.

Then, it was no big deal.

Now, I've got clock radios in three vehicles in the driveway, and in two bedrooms. VCR's and an answering machine, and a clock on the TV. Another wall clock in the kitchen, a wristwatch that requires a magical sequence of button-pushing that I last performed three years ago when the battery died, and a couple of other doodads that I can't think of right now that will probably show up later. The computer is already on it, so I won't have to mess with it, nor with the mantel clock I got for thirty years at work. We only wound it for a couple weeks, then we got tired of listening to the chimes and it's set there since, keeping perfect time twice a day.

I'm retired, so I could go around and find the instructions for most of those appliances and get them all on the correct time, in about a week. Or, I could just stay on the old IN time and ignore the ridiculous practice of taking an hour off one end of the day and sticking it on the end.

As far as the excuse of all those high-tech businesses not being able to figure out what time it is here.....hogwash! They seem to be able to figure out what time it is in Arizona, the fastest-growing economy in the country. Maybe we should have just told them we were two hours ahead of AZ.

I doubt very much that the practice saves anything in energy costs in this day of 24 hour restaurants, convenience stores and Walmarts, and 24 hour lighting of the areas even when the stores are closed.

On the other side of the coin there will be more miles driven to the golf courses, and by the golf carts. The last of the drive-in movie theaters should be ready to turn into putt-putt golf parks, since they won't likely survive the ten o'clock start time for the movies in midsummer when their business peaks.

And it should be good for the auto-body repair business, as well as the golf industry. It's been documented that auto accidents increase by a certain percentage during the adjustment period of a week or so when the time changes and all the workers heading to work in the morning rush are driving with their biological clocks still hitting the snooze button.

But the biggest reason I'm opposed to it is that we weren't asked, like the original post says. They knew darned well what the answer would be and crammed it onto us anyway. Andthey had to some serious arm twisting to get it done at that.

I was real glad to get a Republican back in the state house, and I hope he stays real busty getting the government train back on its tracks....because I'll be darned sure to remember what time the polls open, and I'll be doing my best to make sure the next guy understands that we didn't like having that silly time change forced on us.