Maybe They Should Just Call It A Day
(I work security at a local college. I am currently in what is supposed to be a twelve-hour shift, but daylight saving time has rolled back one hour and made the shift thirteen hours. Coworker #1 and I have just returned to the dispatch after doing a check of the school very early in the morning. Coworker #1 also happens to be a Native American.)
Coworker #1: “Well, that was depressing.”
Coworker #2: “What?”
Me: “We were just in the gymnasium. The clock on the scoreboard hasn’t rolled back automatically. So it told us we were an hour away from our shift’s end, when we are actually two.”
Coworker #2: “Daylight saving is stupid.”
Coworker #1: “I just remember what my elders had said when told about it. ‘Only the white man’s government could believe cutting the top off a blanket and sewing it to the bottom would make the blanket longer.'”
Coworker #2: “Wouldn’t it? I mean now you have those extra stitches in there, blanket might be a bit heavier.”
(The two go back and forth a bit before I speak up again.)
Me: “You do realize that regardless of the blanket’s length, our shift is still 13 hours.”
Coworker #1: “F*** crochet.”
This story is part of our Native-American roundup.
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