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Show ' "7 JUST STUFF i- ji Although I'm writing this column col-umn well before the Sunday night-turn-your-clock-ahead deadline, to make it in for my deadline, I know what next week is going to be like. I'm going to be a day late and a dollar short. Monday morning I will have struggled out of bed with the clock on the dresser displaying the regular time, but my internal clock will remind me that it's really an hour earlier. And that internal clock won't let me forget it all day. The clock will say it's time for my mid-morning pick-me-up, but the sluggish, drowsics won't have hit yet. Of course, I won't let that stand in the way of mc and a treat! If the clock says break, I'll break. And at noon, my tummy won't be growling, I won't feel the usual hunger pangs reminding mc that it should be fed, but it will be 12:00 and time for lunch. And when 5:00 rolls around, it will be time to leave work and head for home, but my desk will say that I still have at least an hour's worth of work to do. The work will be stacked an hour deeper! Mind you, I like daylight savings sav-ings time. I think it's the only way to go, especially for the SDrincsummcr months. I just have a hard time getting my body in sync with the limes. And being a day late isn't the only change we have to get used to this week. Now, thanks to Uncle Sam and the U.S. Postal Service, to give someone your two-bits, it's going to cost two bits! I'm so excited at this 8 percent raise in postage. It can mean only one thing. Our mail is going to get to us, or to wherever we're sending it, 8 percent faster. Just think, a letter now taking an average of three days, or 72 hours to travel through the mail, will now reach its destination in just 66 hours. We'll get our mail a half day earlier! earli-er! Certainly that's what the raise is for. It can't be anything else. Just think what 8 percent earlier delivery will do at Christmas time! Instead of mailing things the first week in December to beat the Christmas rush, you can wait 8 percent longer you won't have to mail until that 12th or 14th! The same holds true for all the other holidays, too. Boy! if that's the way it's going to work, and that's really the only logical explanation for the increase, maybe we should praise the raise, instead of complain. |