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My grudge against daylight savings time
17 years ago
At 1:00AM on Sunday the clocks went back by 1 hour to 0:00AM.
For most people this would mean an extra, comfortabe hour in bed but for me it meant that my already abomanably long night shift was extended by an hour to 14 hours! Raagh!
The only consolation was that I did get paid for that extra hour, but quite frankly I would have paid that hours wage just to go to bed.
At about 6 in the morning I was watching the BBC News. I was prety out of it by then, having been up for nearly 20 hours by that point, so I was a little confused when the strait faced news woman shuffed her papers and said 'The Undead swarmed the streets in 90 cities world-wide at half past ten last night.'.
I hadn't been paying full attention at that point but I quickly tuned in, thinking that surly I must have misheard. Neither of the newsreaders was smiling or laughing so I assumed it to be someing serious and geniune.
It turned out I didn't mishear, but I had of course misunderstood. They were talking about the largest mass dance to Micheal Jacksons Thriller on record. They presented this with such a stright face though! If I had been any more tired who knnows what i might have done! Baricaded the door perhaps and fling rocks at passers-by through the window.
Such travesty.
For most people this would mean an extra, comfortabe hour in bed but for me it meant that my already abomanably long night shift was extended by an hour to 14 hours! Raagh!
The only consolation was that I did get paid for that extra hour, but quite frankly I would have paid that hours wage just to go to bed.
At about 6 in the morning I was watching the BBC News. I was prety out of it by then, having been up for nearly 20 hours by that point, so I was a little confused when the strait faced news woman shuffed her papers and said 'The Undead swarmed the streets in 90 cities world-wide at half past ten last night.'.
I hadn't been paying full attention at that point but I quickly tuned in, thinking that surly I must have misheard. Neither of the newsreaders was smiling or laughing so I assumed it to be someing serious and geniune.
It turned out I didn't mishear, but I had of course misunderstood. They were talking about the largest mass dance to Micheal Jacksons Thriller on record. They presented this with such a stright face though! If I had been any more tired who knnows what i might have done! Baricaded the door perhaps and fling rocks at passers-by through the window.
Such travesty.
XD
DST should die a painful death, IMO. >:P
Scotland, to be precise.