Daylight savings time debate

[bluesdave]

Daylight saving makes your grass grow longer, and your curtins fade! :p

[xoxoxoBruce]

On the news there were bunch of adults and children complaining about getting up and going in the dark.
I get up at 4, leave before 5:30 and start at 6. It's dark most of the year so it's hard to sympathize with them.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

On the news there were bunch of adults and children complaining about getting up and going in the dark.
I get up at 4, leave before 5:30 and start at 6. It's dark most of the year so it's hard to sympathize with them.

I hear you, but it has just started getting light when we leave here. I feel like I've earned the morning sun and now its gone...

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Griff

I hear you, but it has just started getting light when we leave here. I feel like I've earned the morning sun and now its gone...

You reminded me, the last mile or so to work is a 4 lane, straight as an arrow, shiny concrete road....smack into the rising sun. Too low for sun visors and still see past the hood plus refections off the road.

The sun would be a little higher every day and just about the time the sun would be high enough to be safe.... the clocks would make me start over again. I might only have to go through it once this way.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You reminded me, the last mile or so to work is a 4 lane, straight as an arrow, shiny concrete road....smack into the rising sun. Too low for sun visors and still see past the hood plus refections off the road.

The sun would be a little higher every day and just about the time the sun would be high enough to be safe.... the clocks would make me start over again. I might only have to go through it once this way.

Get some nice, dark POLARIZED sunglasses. I drive the same stretch and I don't have a problem.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Get some nice, dark POLARIZED sunglasses. I drive the same stretch and I don't have a problem.

I have several pair of glasses in various tints. In order to make the sun bearable they are too dark to see anything else. Polaroids only help with angled reflections, nothing for straight at the light.
I don't believe you drive the same stretch.

[monster]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

On the news there were bunch of adults and children complaining about getting up and going in the dark.
I get up at 4, leave before 5:30 and start at 6. It's dark most of the year so it's hard to sympathize with them.

When it's light, my kids and I can bike/scooter to their bus stop. In the dark, it's too dangerous because of all the wankers who think the the 25 limit doesn't apply to them because it's hard to control the speed when you're talking on the phone, adjusting your tie, reading the paper, drinking coffee and eating a donut and besides who can see you speeding in the dark. So we have to drive, which actually takes longer, never mind all the environmental downfalls.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by monster

When it's light, my kids and I can bike/scooter to their bus stop. In the dark, it's too dangerous because of all the wankers who think the the 25 limit doesn't apply to them because it's hard to control the speed when you're talking on the phone, adjusting your tie, reading the paper, drinking coffee and eating a donut and besides who can see you speeding in the dark. So we have to drive, which actually takes longer, never mind all the environmental downfalls.

Yeah, that sucks. The people I saw whining on the news were just complaining about getting up in the dark. I don't think they had even contemplated the going places issues.