Spring Ahead

I was reminded today that tomorrow we "Spring Ahead."  It came up during a discussion at work.  A friend mentioned she took off Monday and Tuesday.  I asked if she was taking a trip.  Her answer was, "No.  The time changes this week-end and it takes me a few days to adjust."  I get it.  I think the Monday and Tuesday after the "Time Change" should be National Holidays.  Seriously!  It cannot be healthy to have our inner clocks jerked around at random.  I resent, the group that came up with the idea to mess with my time.  How is a decision like this made.  At what level was it made.

I imagine a group of men sitting around at a bar after their softball game was cut short by dark.
" You know what the problem is? "
" No, what?  It gets dark too early." 
"Well, yeah, that's obvious.  Not like we can do anything about it.  What are we going to do, change time."
Laughter and more beers follow.  Later, the conversation starts again.
"We could change time."
"Don't be ridiculous."
"No, really.  Think about it.  All we have to do is pick a Sunday when the weather starts getting warm, and push the clock up one hour."
"That's crazy.  People can't just decide to change time.  But......if we did it when would we do it?"
"I'd say 2:00 am.  Most people are in bed by then.  Why don't we just pick the second week-end in March.  It will be done before St. Patrick's Day."
"It can't work.  When the days get longer, it would still be dark in the mornings when children are getting on the buses to go to school.  What are we going to do about that."
"We'll wait until fall and have the time fall back."

One softball player finds another softball player who is in Congress.  Next thing we know, everyone is having their lives disrupted on a whim.  Life would go on without this "time change."  Arizona has stubbornly refused to give into this demand made by our government. 
When the time changes early Sunday morning people's lives are disrupted.  The clock shows 8:00pm.  Children's inner clock says, "Not in real time."  That is not a problem at night.  In the morning when you are forcing the innocent children out of bed at what is really 6:00am, it is ugly.  When my clock goes off at what is really 4:15am on Monday, I will not be amused. 
The problem is, I feel like this is one area where the government has gone too far.  It is my life.  It is my time.  I do not want anyone to decide they are taking MY HOUR just because it is close to Spring.  I know I will get it back.  I will get it back, on our government's time frame.  Maybe I was going to use that hour after 2:00am on Sunday.  Maybe that was going to be the hour my life was changed.  In the early hours on Sunday morning, I was going to seriously clean my closet.  ALL three of my closets.  It was going to take more than an hour.  Now I can't do it.  There will not be enough time.  I can't start the project and finish it in November when THEY give me back MY hour.  We used to get it back in October.  Most of my life we got it back in October.  A few years ago Congress made the decision to change it to November.  Isn't that crazy?  People we do not know, made the decision when they are giving ME back MY hour.
To get back to my original point.  If Congress is going to decide to mess with our minds and for us older people our bodies, we deserve time to adjust.  Just pass a law.  Instead of Springing ahead, we will walk slowly ahead.  It is going to take two days for us to get there.  In the Fall, we will also need two days.  Falls are not safe.  Even into a pile of leaves.  We will walk backwards into time. 
Call your local politicians.  This is just the kind of cause they will grab onto right now.  Something to take their minds off our depressing economy.  All we are asking for is two, four day week-ends.  Think about!  Who is going to start the petition.  I know two people that will sign!