I'm frustrated at the complacency of time. It never wants to try anything new, speed up or slow down, only tick. That's it. How boring. Why not just use one time for the WORLD. Oh, that's right, that would mean everyone would be on the same time and it would be easy for people to say, "Hey Joel, I know you're in Latvia this week, so let's plan a teleconference at 7 AM your time, which would make it 4 PM my time, which means I can't go to the dentist at 3." Everyone knows the outcome of trying something as worldly as a teleconference. Invariably you or your conferencee phones three hours before or 2 after the proposed time. And who the hell came up with this cheeky daylight savings time? What difference does it make if you've got to watch Oprah at 4 or 3? "Charlotte, if we say it's 3 PM when in reality it's 4 PM this coming Thursday, we will successfully confuse the hell out of each other and leave poor Trevor at kinder-care." I mean, come on. Daylight savings time is almost as pointless as double parking. Who cares if you're three hours ahead? Oooh, you're so much cooler than I am. I wish I could be three hours ahead.
Time needs to get its act in order and be the same everywhere. I mean, come on, this is time we're talking about. It's been around for a while now, and I would hope that it knows its shit. But I continually forget that some vastly more intelligent person, like totally way more intelligent than time, thinks he can just start sequestering a chunk of earth and slap something as ridiculous as a time zone on it and proudly proclaim, "I am the dominant life form here!" Really, a time zone? That's like a speed zone, only slightly more ridiculous. "Time will progress the same throughout the globe, save this region, where it will be one hour slower, then catch up up there at that imaginary line right there, oops, I mean right there."
Perhaps I'm being facetious.
--R.
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