We're All Gonna Lose a $#%^& Hour of Sleep Tonight

By
Real Estate Broker/Owner with J. Philip Faranda (J. Philip R.E. LLC) Westchester County NY License # 49FA1074963

Daylight Savings Spring AheadMY esteemed colleagues, in their zest to farm their neighborhoods, be found on the Interwebs and be regarded as the "go to" mayor of their community, are falling all over themselves to remind you to turn your clock ahead tonight for daylight savings. 

They figure that if they tell you to turn your clock ahead tonight for daylight savings, you'll suddenly decide to move, and list your house with them so they can sell you another house (RATES ARE AT AN ALL TIME LOW! Click here! Click Here! Click Here!), and convince all your friends and relatives to do the same (RATES ARE REALLY LOW!). 

I have a different message for the public: 

We are all going to lose an hour of precious F4%$^&g sleep tonight. It is for reasons vaguely related to farming from the 1800s despite the fact that I can see the skyline of Manhattan on clear day from the train station and I haven't grown a turnip in 36 years, 110 pounds, and 45,000 gray hairs. 

So turn your %$^&*g clock ahead tonight or risk not only losing an hour of sleep, but being late for your thing tomorrow. Or early. I can't figure it out because I haven't adjusted to writing "2012" on my #$%^g checks yet. 

Comments (31)

Amanda Evans
DFW Living - Fort Worth, TX
Real Estate Broker - Fort Worth Texas

I'm sitting this one out.  Will call it Mandy Standard Time.

Mar 09, 2012 10:49 PM
Anna Banana Kruchten CRS, CRB, Phoenix Broker
HomeSmart Real Estate BR030809000 - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

We don't change in AZ but everyone else does so it really screws things up trying to remember who's what and what's who.  Missed several webinars cause I was either an hour early or late!  Enough already!!

Mar 09, 2012 10:50 PM
Cindy Jones
Integrity Real Estate Group - Woodbridge, VA
Pentagon, Fort Belvoir & Quantico Real Estate News

And Realtors® wonder why the industry gets so little respect.  Did anyone get a reminder about DST from anyone else?  I'm not comparing us to some of the other loft professions that folks like to equate us to but let's be honest the only folks sending out a barage of DST reminders are agents.  Get over it.

Mar 09, 2012 10:59 PM
Bryan Robertson
Los Altos, CA

All I want is my hour of sleep back.  Someone's been stealing this hour for over 40 years.  That means I've due over 40 hours of sleep back.  Gimme!  :)

Mar 09, 2012 11:10 PM
Sandy Acevedo
951-290-8588 - Chino Hills, CA
RE/MAX Masters, Inland Empire Homes for Sale

My, my, is everyone grumpy here because of lack of sleep. Great points, though!                              

Mar 09, 2012 11:48 PM
Rob D. Shepherd
Windermere/lane county - Florence, OR
Principal Broker GRI, SRES

I have been losing sleep all week ( bad client) another hour won't change anything for me.

Mar 09, 2012 11:50 PM
Justin Dibbs
Pearson Smith Realty - Ashburn, VA
REALTOR® - Ashburn Virginia Homes for Sale

Seriously, gimme that 60 minutes of sleep back man!

Mar 10, 2012 12:05 AM
Emmary Simpson
Las Cruces Homes and Land - Las Cruces, NM
Serving Las Cruces, NM

Come to Arizona...stay for the "We Don't Have to Mess With Our Clocks" party ;-)

Mar 10, 2012 12:20 AM
Steve Loynd
Alpine Lakes Real Estate Inc., - Lincoln, NH
800-926-5653, White Mountains NH

Phil, I didn't change the clock in my car from the "fall back" maneuver we insist of doing prior to winter...so I just have to remember the clock will be correct again.

Mar 10, 2012 12:20 AM
Russell Lewis
Realty Austin, Austin Texas Real Estate - Austin, TX
Broker,CLHMS,GRI

HAHAHAHAHAHA...I see you are benefiting from the Slaybaugh effect ;-)

Mar 10, 2012 12:23 AM
Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Phil is grumpy today.  Daylight savings time in the modern era has much less to do with farming as it has to do with energy conservation.  And the focus I place on telling people is changing their batteries in the smoke alarms.  This year it's more important to me than ever.  Last year my sister in law lost her house to a fire.

Mar 10, 2012 12:40 AM
John McCormack, CRS
Albuquerque Homes Realty - Albuquerque, NM
Honesty, Integrity, Results, Experienced. HIRE Me!

Phil - I like your spin on the whole time change thing!  BA Goof works my friend :)

 

Mar 10, 2012 12:53 AM
Dick Greenberg
New Paradigm Partners LLC - Fort Collins, CO
Northern Colorado Residential Real Estate

Hi J. Philip - Mary & I were in a little town in Italy one fall when it was time to end daylight savings and move the clocks back on hour. That was neatly, and so typically, accomplished by turning of the entire town's electricity for an hour in the middle of the night.

Mar 10, 2012 02:06 AM
Debbie Gartner
The Flooring Girl - White Plains, NY
The Flooring Girl & Blog Stylist -Dynamo Marketers

I'm just glad that I don't have to reset my GPS clock...it's been an hour ahead since November and I figured eventually we would catch up.

Mar 10, 2012 07:11 AM
1~Judi Barrett
Integrity Real Estate Services 118 SE AVE N, Idabel, OK 74745 - Idabel, OK
BS Ed, Integrity Real Estate Services -IDABEL OK

We're on the same page on this one and I do live on a farm even though no turnips... don't like the things.  In fact turnips and daily savings time are both on my "do not like" list.  :)

Mar 10, 2012 11:41 AM
Tammie White, Broker
Franklin Homes Realty LLC - Franklin, TN
Franklin TN Homes for Sale

You are quite the goof. I feel sick about losing an hour of sleep. I better go to bed.

Mar 10, 2012 12:56 PM
Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

They've shifted the time of year for the change several times now - I wish they would just make the change permanent so we wouldn't have to go through this year after year. I LIKE the additional daylight later in the evning!

Mar 10, 2012 01:16 PM
Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

If you go to bed an hour earlier, you don't lose an hour of sleep!  It's an old trick, that not everybody is privy to.  But I thought I'd share it with you, buddy o' mine!

Mar 10, 2012 08:11 PM
Morgan Evans
Douglas Elliman Real Estate - Manhattan, NY
LICENSED REAL ESTATE SALESPERSON

I didn't mind the loss of the hour of sleep too much, I like the extra light we get now in the evenings.

 

Mar 12, 2012 05:57 AM
John Cannata
214-728-0449 http://TexasLoanGuy.com - Frisco, TX
Texas Home Mortgage - Purchase or Refinance

Its only an hour. Makes the day longer now. :-)  What I like is ALL of the emails I receive 2 days before the clocks turn from all sorts of solicitors reminding me to turn my clocks ahead or behind.

Mar 12, 2012 09:55 AM

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