It’s that time….again.

I have a friend who says, “For God sakes!”  It makes me crazy. The correct phrase is, “For God’s sake.” Unless he has been talking about Japanese rice wine all these years. I doubt it.

I’ve also never seen a TV weatherman (or pregnant weatherwoman…why are they always pregnant?) who can just say, “behind.” They always say, “back behind” as in “back behind this cold front…”  It is redundant. It makes me crazy.

I had a girlfriend who always said, “Condensating” instead of “Condescending”, and “grammarically” instead of “grammatically”. My ex-wife said, “electronical” instead of “electrical”. And more than half of my friends say, “expresso” instead of “espresso”. It makes me crazy.

And so it is with Daylight Saving Time. It is not Daylight Savings Time. It is not enough that I hate Daylight Saving Time, nearly everyone mis-pronounces it, too. It is insult on  injury.

I started hating DST when I was a kid. I am old enough to remember when it was practiced in Indiana 30+ years ago. I hated going to bed in the summer (when I didn’t have school) when it was still light outside. In fact, I blame it for my insomnia now…messing up those circadian rythyms at an early age. Now, trying to get my own child to bed while it is still light outside is difficult. Not just because it is light out, but because I sympathize with her.

And, as if there were not enough reasons to despise the blood that courses through the veins of George W., the Moron-in-Chief moved up DST’s start date by a couple of weeks!If only for this, he must go!

So, every Sunday between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., when the throngs crush through the doors at Some Guys to put in their last minute orders, do not stop by the counter and ask me if we are going to start staying open later because of Daylight Savings Time. I am likely to respond from back behind the counter, in a condensating tone, “Oh, for God sakes…”, even if it isn’t grammarically correct.

~ by travelingwithcharley on March 6, 2008.