Arizonans are Smart!

alarm-clock (1)Tucson  has many benefits other parts of the country don’t enjoy…warmth, sun, an environment for outdoor activities including golf, hiking, camping, or just wandering around. But especially on this morning, I am so grateful we do not change the clocks!

I never knew if we had to go forwards or backwards despite that ditty many of us learned, fall forward, spring back. I remember one Sunday I showed up for the Sunday School class I was teaching an hour early. That was painful, I hung around waiting, thinking “oh, I could be in bed!”

When I was a teenager, I had an 11 pm curfew when staying at my Grandmother’s. I was invited to a dance by a young man whom I thought was an Adonis, and I came home an hour later. My poor Grandmother was frantic, but I just flippantly said, “Well it’s really 11 pm, not midnight” not thinking clocks don’t get turned back until 2 am.

I especially love Arizona twice a year when I don’t have to think about turning clocks ahead or moving them back. It makes it hard for people who call Arizonans because they never know what time it is…we are Pacific time during the summers and Central time during the winters.
But now, instead of getting phone calls from the east coast at 5 am in the summer, it will be 6 – and I will have had my first cup of coffee.

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