That was our rule. My mom worked and we had free range after school and all day in the summer till the streetlights came on. I also get weirdly anxious being out after dark. Maybe it’s deeply ingrained from my childhood.
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And the plus side…it’s very easy to wake up on time!
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Oh, this morning the cat howling (our three plus the two we are catsitting) was INTENSE.
The first month after time change is rough for my dog. And as a result, for us. Why don’t pets come with DST programming built in?
Up at 4 am. Wide awake. Hate the time change soooooo much. Grrrr.
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Not a pet, lol, but I adopted my 23-month-old daughter from China (13- or 11-hour time difference depending on how you count), in February. Of course she was up and ready to play at 5 am. No explaining time zones to an almost-2-year-old with an English vocabulary of 2-3 words!
Be glad you all aren’t champion clock setters like me. When you have to do it ever couple of weeks because the power keeps going out, you can breeze through the house and get them all done in no time flat! And we keep our cars forever, so by year 10 it’s pretty easy to remember how to do those…
I’m in the camp that wants the daylight at night. At 3:50am it’ll be dark no matter what, and at this point I prefer running in the dark. But after work when it’s dark, I feel like it’s time to go to bed and trying to get anything done is such a struggle
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Oh yea, still gotta change my minivan clock. Being retired I don’t drive it much but should get it right. It seems a half year is just long enough to forget the step. But we’ve had it since 2006, so there are times I can now do it without pulling out the manual.
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