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A Brief Attack on Daylight Savings.
After my once a week dose of Desperate Housewives, I felt a strange feeling not felt at this time in months. At 10 PM, I was exhausted and promptly went to bed after Angie convinced Susan that Katharine attacked her daughter.
The sun was shining brightly when my alarm went off at 6:45. I was accepting of my wake up call. The condensation was barely noticeable on my car. The blue birds sang a harmonious tune. This sunshiny morning was thanks to the temporary cease of daylight savings time.
Daylight savings time is a burden to most of its participants. On the first day, people wake up much earlier than they are accustomed to, and go to school tired. To put it simply the sun gives us energy. When it is to dark to get this extra energy, we get cranky and begin a groggy feeling that will not be shaken very quickly.
This awful happening is thanks to a self-righteous British chap named William Willet. Will William Wilbur Willet Whatever annoyingly campaigned for the spread of daylight savings time by using his own money and publishing pamphlets and bills. Eventually Whiny Willy got his way and places like dark and gloomy Britain rejoiced as they reveled in their extra hour of sunlight. As we live in sunshiny Florida, daylight savings time has appropriately, never sat well with us.
In March 2008, Florida senator Bill Posey introduced a bill to abolish the dreaded daylight savings time and use standard time year round. The bill unfortunately failed., and we are forced to endure this awful time switch. For now, however, we can know that it will be a beautiful couple of months.
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