You've got old people...we all have old people: Dealing with our Parents.

Maybe I over-generalized, but statistically driving at night is ~10 times deadlier than day driving (another reason why not staying on daylight savings time year-round is just dumb), so if you are already way past your peak in driving you probably don't need any additional challenges.

 

Yeah, I guess this will be resolved in 10-20 years as the auto pilot option will probably be a regular feature in vehicles before too long. Maybe even a feature that will be subsidized by the gov't and/or insurance companies for people over 75.

Yes, for all ages.

 

If it doesn’t get light until 8 am or later you’ll have the same issues.

 

But aren't there more people on the roads at 5:00p than 7:30a? Especially post-COVID. And especially on weekends (even in NYC the roads are basically empty at 7:30a on Saturday - the daylight is just going to waste).

 

Saturday isn’t the issue, during the week the morning commute is just as packed as the evening commute, plus add to that people taking their kids to school (or kids walking to school in the dark)

Also the idea that we should move our entire system of time out of sync with the actual cycles of the earth just because we don’t want to get up early is kind of insane.

 

Bwahahahaha!!!! I just passed the Driver's Laws Test today allowing for another 4 yrs.

 

This is an issue with my MIL. Raised by parents who were born and raised during the Depression, she was taught to hold onto things, for fear of needing it later and having thrown it away. So there are multitudes of hex keys, washers, vestigal screws from an Ikea shelf, etc.

There is also the issue of holding onto random things in the off chance of using it later in life. For example, buying a sewing kit on the off chance one of her grandkids shows an interest, or a bike with training wheels for her grandkid....while daughter is in her 2nd trimester.

 

My folks have a lot of stuff, problem for me is that it is seriously good stuff. They have museum quality art and rugs, and three antique pieces of furniture. And my dad has 15 antique clocks. And I am.seriously downwards mobile from my folks. I don't have a house that is worthy of their stuff.

My dad had recently acquired a passion for his "legacy" and as a kid who was seriously starved during the Depression, he feels his legacy is this art. My brother is estranged, so I'm so supposed to keep all this. My son and daughter want a couple pieces, but apparently I didn't raise them right as they are bigger slobs than I. I'd have to lose a.bookshelf or two and my family picture wall just to take in the bare minimum. And I'd have st start locking my house. I told my folks if they wanted me to conserve their stuff, they'd have to buy me a new house. That shut them up for a while...

 

We’re probably gonna have to rent a storage units when my in-laws move to assisted living. After they pass we’ll likely be able to afford a place where we can hold all their nice stuff, but in the meantime there’s no way.

Edit: what soccernutter said.

 

Yeah, but only the first part of the morning rush would be in the dark, and only for one portion of the year.

meh. Does it matter? It exists and is unavoidable anyway. For e.g. Sevilla is six timezones ahead of Boston, but based on the rate of spin of the Earth it should only be 4 hours ahead (or 4hr 15min to be precise).

 

This is the majority reaction to those who were raised during the depression and they were of a social class where it affected them. I've also seen the other reaction where people do none of these things because it reminds them of a poverty that they want to put behind them and forget. A sort of "I'll never be hungry again" sort of reaction.

 

I don't get how the sun setting at 4:30p instead of 5:30p impacts ones ability to get to sleep(?)

Or maybe you are talking about the consequences of daylight savings time in the summer? (But then if you didn't have daylight savings time, the sun would rise at 4:00a in summer which no doubt wouldn't benefit sleep much).

 

For me, less time to walk.

 

We have to get rid of the deep state!

 

Child of depression-era parents. Like my dad, I squirrel away every nut and bolt and I have to say that I use many of them on future projects. Have a junk drawer too. Save most scraps of wood and used them to build a leaf slide for leaf cleanup this fall. Over the fence & into the patch of woods behind the backyard. I aint using 30-40 paper bags to put out in the street like the town wants.

 

Me too! As a tech rep I cannibalized components off pc boards and nuts, bolts and washers for the mechanical stuff. When I was in Vermont on the Canadian border there were no Radio Shacks or Ace Hardware stores available. Paper clips, duck tape, and WD-40 were always kept handy.

 

Don't wanna know what you were doing with the WD-40