Daylight Wasting Time

I used to like Daylight Savings Time. It was like this mini-holiday at the end of October, a little addition to the sweetness of Halloween. The extra hour of sleep the first day made you feel good because you got the extra sleep without having to sleep in. It’s easier to get up in the morning. For a little while, even the non-morning people of the world can feel like the early hours of the day are their friends. Daylight Savings Time makes the morning a wonderful place to be.

I used to like Daylight Savings Time until I fully realized what it did to the evening hours. It robs us of it, that’s what it does! I didn’t really think much of it until this evening. I work until 6:00 or later, depending on when my interns’ rides (which could be parents or the city buses) arrive, and now with the time change, 6:00 is engulfed by complete darkness. Normally this wouldn’t bother me, but now, despite how nice the weather, I can’t walk to work anymore. Walking to work is one thing, but walking home in my neighborhood in the pitch dark is an entirely different issue. While I like to think my neighborhood is a safe place to live, I’m smart enough to know that it’s not a place that a skinny little small town girl should be walking around after dark.

So now, I’m dependent on my car 5 days a week. Thank you, Daylight Savings Time, thanks a lot.