Ross: Falling backwards is the easy part of the stupid ritual
Oct 30, 2020, 6:26 AM | Updated: 8:05 am
The "Zeitfeld" (Time Field) clock installation by Klaus Rinke is seen at the entrance of the Suedpark, on March 29, in Dusseldorf Germany. (Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
(Photo by Maja Hitij/Getty Images)
Just another reminder to turn the clocks back this weekend for what was described in one headline as one of the world’s stupidest rituals.
At least this is the EASY part of the stupid ritual – we get the extra hour. It’s the one day everybody gets to church on time … if there WAS church.
Unfortunately, it just sets you up for the even stupider spring ritual where the devil demands his hour back and we all drive to work in a coma. Although I suppose I shouldn’t complain since I haven’t driven to work – or much of anywhere – since March.
And actually, now that I think of it, gaining or losing an hour really only matters for people who have to BE somewhere … which I don’t – I just stay at home and so I can easily commute in a coma – I just have to avoid the leftover takeout on the stairs.
Which makes me think if we can’t rid ourselves of this meddlesome ritual, let’s just double down! How about this: Next spring, instead of springing ahead an hour on Sunday, we keep the clock the same, but spring ahead a whole day and go straight from Saturday to Monday – THEN the following November when we fall back, we can fall back a whole DAY and get a free long weekend!
Or even BETTER – let’s just fall back all the way to January and just take another crack at all of 2020, this time with the benefit of hindsight. Or I guess then it would be foresight, wouldn’t it?
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