After the initial fun of end of Daylight Savings Time--basically, that extra hour of sleep--it occurs to me that I could use that extra hour of sleep every day. Why are we stuck in this 24 hour cage? Unleash us with a 25 hour day! Workaholics can put in an extra hour at work, the rest of us can get extra sleep or free time.
Now, some people will complain that adding an extra hour to each day will gradually shift it until the sun sets at noon and the sun rises when we're trying to go to sleep. I'm way ahead of you on that. We shift our work schedules by an hour each day--get in an hour later, and work an hour later, each day. It's basic math, people!
Of course, as Americans we should take the lead on this--it'll confound the Chinese as they scratch their heads and try to figure out why we're so much better rested, happier, and more productive than them. They'll soon discover--through their elaborate network of spies and CNN--that we have a 25 hour day, and of course they'll have to "keep up with the Joneses" and add an extra hour to their own day. But by that point, we'll have implemented my other idea--the 8 day week! Like the extra hour, the extra day can be used any way we want--more leisure, more work, or just sitting around reflecting on how clever we were. By the time the Chinese catch up to us and add "Saturednesday" to their week, we'll be so far ahead of them at everything they won't know what to do.
Some people might suggest we go ahead and add two extra hours to the day, but that'd just be pushing it.
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Better yet I think we need to insutite a mandatory siesta, just like they have in Europe. I got to experience this first hand in Greece and it was fantastic. The 25 hour day is an interesting idea though.
ReplyDeleteDF--hopefully this idea will catch on! Siestas are nice, but they result in a much longer day--Spaniards eat dinner really late. They're sort of like NYers, but the NYers don't get the naptime.
ReplyDeleteI think we need a mandatory 3 hour naptime during the day at work.
ReplyDeleteEvery year when the clocks go back I remember that not once, but twice in six years in the Marines I was the duty NCO the day daylight savings ended. So along with all the other indignities, I also got stuck standing a 24-hour duty twice on a 25-hour day.
ReplyDeleteZip--agreed! Well rested workers do the best work.
ReplyDeleteFoggy--there should have been some sort of overtime for that.
I am so with you. However, I would like the extra day to be called Stanley.
ReplyDeleteLacochran--maybe the extra day could be sold for naming rights?
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