Hey Maine, Don’t Forget To ‘Spring Forward’ This Weekend!

Parents and pet owners everywhere have started to brace for what will inevitably be a weekend of crankiness, tantrums, and ill-timed potty breaks.

Daylight Saving Time is this weekend (yes, we're still doing this...and no, I don't know exactly why anymore. It doesn't make sense to me, either.)

"Spring forward"... They make it sound like it's so much fun! "Let's all Spring Forward!" Yippee!

But it's anything but fun. And it doesn't even make sense anymore!

At 2:00 AM on Sunday the 9th, we'll all follow the same antiquated custom of setting our clocks back. Well, not all of us. Some don't bother at all, yet we force them to adjust their entire calendars because some of us do this.

In theory, I get it; move the hour ahead and we get more sunlight in our day. The problem with this plan is and has always been that our bodies, and those of all the living things on this earth, fail to get that memo and everything seems completely out of whack for a while afterward.

Especially for kids!

My most sincere apologies to every teacher who has to work the Monday that follows Daylight Saving time. They should get hazard pay or something. Or maybe, if we're going to subject ourselves to this ridiculous tradition, we should make that Monday a day off, for all our sakes!

What Springing Forward actually does is create over-tired toddlers and teens and pooped-out parents.

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I don't know about you, but it takes my family till about March to get back into a working groove after the Christmas Holiday and then February Break.

By the time everything seems to even out, Daylight Saving Time sneaks up to the front door with a tuba and some cymbals and CRASH! Wah-Wah-Wah!!!! Everything is topsy-turvy again!

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The only really beneficial thing about this blasted day is that it does serve as a reminder for folks to check their smoke detectors and their boobies (the Buddy 2 Buddy breast cancer awareness campaign used to hammer this home with TV ads when I was a kid.)

I can get behind those two things, but the rest of it is just garbage at this point, in my humble opinion.

So make sure you set those clocks an hour ahead before you go to bed this Saturday night. And get ready for everyone around you to have a definite case of "The Mondays" this week.

Good luck!