Why Do We Do It?

I'm talking, of course, about Daylight Savings Time. In the first place, it's annoying. I have to post reminders to change the clocks in several obvious places around the house. Then I have to wander around the house changing all the clocks. Yes, my phone and computer change themselves, thank you very much. But everything else needs to be done by hand and we seem to have a lot of clocks. If you've ever forgotten to fall back in the fall, you know the confusion it causes on Sunday morning. The one year I forgot, we all showed up for church and found ourselves totally alone. The halls were empty. The classrooms were empty. It was creepy, like wandering through a ghost town. Fortunately, someone else showed up and explained why we were alone. We left and spent an hour at Dunkin' Donuts. In the second place, even if we aren't taken by surprise, for many of us, moving that hour around causes some level of mental or physical discomfort. If you don't have this problem, you are probably laughing at how silly it sounds. But no matter what I do, I feel out of sorts for two or three days and I'm not alone. I'm also very bad at handling jet lag, but that's another story. So, I finally get to my original question--why? I do know some people who are crazy about the extra daylight time they have after work, but most of the people I've asked say they hate it. The negatives outweigh the benefits. I've also heard that people lose time at work and have more accidents. I'm too busy (read lazy) to look these statistics up myself but I'm sure I heard it from a trustworthy source. I might, maybe, have been persuaded when the year was roughly divided in half, but now there are only four months of "real" time. Why bother? At this point, I don't particularly care which way the clocks are set, if they could just be set ... and left there.