‘An hour less in bed’

[StillCoughingandLaughing]

Lighthearted... although it does make me scream a little bit

Every year, my mother reminds me that the clocks are going forward and complains about getting ‘an hour less in bed’. (She also gets excited about the ‘extra hour’ in autumn.)

Now, I could understand this if she worked Sundays and had to be up at a certain time. But she doesn’t. She never has. And as she’s nearly 70, she never will. If she wants an extra hour in bed, she can have one - or two, or three, or sleep all day! No one is going to say, ‘It’s 9am - you MUST get up’.

Why is she worried about ‘losing’ an hour in bed once a year when she could have that hour in bed every week?!

I’m happy as it means the clock is right in my car 😊

I'm a nurse. I used to work on the wards, now community, so office hours.

So yeah, when I was on the wards, didn't like doing earlies when the clocks went forward, though nights was good as you worked an hour less, but it was the opposite when the clocks went back,

Pre covid I often did an exercise class Sunday morning but otherwise the change of clocks doesn't bother me.

@optimistic40 I agree that a lot of older people are like that, but she complains about having to get up at 5 and always says she would love to be able to have a lie in but just doesn't have the time! She does, however, allow herself a lie in until 8 on her birthday and Christmas Day!

Some of my elderly clients are very routine led and it really throws them off. They get up when the clock says 7am regardless.

I booked my Covid vaccination for 8am this morning at a vaccination centre not realising it was the day clocks change.

A shout out to the staff and volunteers who were all on time and cheery despite losing an hour's sleep and I was in and out in 5 minutes.

Mine used to say this, elderly parents get so wearing after a while

My alarm already goes off at 5.45am for work.

As far as my body is concerned, it's going off at 4.45am now. And no, I am not able to go to sleep an hour earlier to make up for it (I'll just be spending the extra hour not being able to sleep), so thanks to the joys of that, I'll be going to work tomorrow on between 3 and 4 hours' sleep.

I also pity the parents who find it difficult enough to get their teenagers up at 6am to catch the buses/trains/trams for school in normal times, never mind tomorrow.

@psychomath

My mum had the Pfizer jab recently and said she wouldn't have minded having the AZ one instead, because that way she might have had some side effects and could stay in bed all day. When I pointed out that she's retired and could stay in bed all day without being ill if she wants she didn't have a response

That is so funny!

@jessstan2

My husband used to say things like, "It's eight o'clock but it's not really eight o'clock, it's seven". Grrrrrr

I get this too. At 6pm today, DH will say 'this time yesterday it was 5pm.'

Then tomorrow at midday, he will say 'this time on Saturday, it was 11 a.m.'

Also, if we go on a day trip on a Tuesday, (to Aberystwyth for example,) and come back at 8pm, the next day at 9am, he will says 'this time yesterday we were on our way to Aberystwyth.'

Then at 3pm he says 'this time yesterday we were on Aberystwyth beach.'

Then at 7pm, he says 'this time yesterday we were on our way back from Aberystwyth.'

Then the following Tuesday 'this time last week we were at Aberystwyth.'

Just so bizarre.

I’ve had periods of unemployment when I could have ignored the clock so clock change wouldn’t affect me. I don’t think it would have been particularly healthy for me though.

If you usually listen to the radio and get up when they do a particular segment it feels odd to miss that and get up later when clocks go forward, even if lifestyle or (lack of) commitments allow it.

I expect it holds true for other people such as people that are retired.

I think the same thing every year OP. Most people aren’t affected by the hour change on a Sunday

@HavelockVetinari. What horrid strong words. Dramatic and stupid. My mam does same thing shes 74 and def isnt dramatic or stupid. Its just those subtle changes its something different. Think before you open your huge skate and out flies rudeness.

My mam gets the same way but its just something different. Shes 74. But not stupid i must say. Then again i would never call anyone stupid it makes it look like wolves have dragged you up. Common and rude, things i guess some people strive to be. 😳

Just tell her to go to bed an hour early. Get the same amount of sleep. What is she like when she flys to other countries. You lose lots of hours that way too

My MIL always said you are lucky you have time to read, not like her. I had a job and 3DC. She was retired and lived alone.

Thousands of people say the same thing every March, all over the country. It's a wonder that we can't all hear them, all saying this in unison.

The most annoying thing about it is having to physically adjust the clocks - on the cooker, the landline phone, the study, the car (need the manual every time!) and climbing up to change the kitchen clock delicately balancing it back on a screw so it doesn’t fall off the bloomin’ wall! Small troubles but a nuisance! 😁

As I get older (approaching 70), I think what a waste of time it is to stay in bed.

YANBU
A fruend complained yoday that she had ‘lost an hour’

@STARmyarse

Do you not gain it back the next night anyway or have I got it all wrong?

If you go to bed at your usual time of course.

You wouldn't gain it back because the next night the clocks are running as normal !

I hate it every year! Tomorrow when my alarm goes at 6am I’ll be wishing for extra hr in bed. And nightmare get young dc to go bed when it’s so light

I never get it when people say this about kids as well. If they normally sleep 9/10/11/12 hours they will still sleep that and won’t care what the clock says.

For the next few days there is no law that says you have to go to sleep at the new time. Go to bed when you feel tired in order to try and get your normal hours? I don’t get it at all really.

There is something quite satisfying at being able to say both my DC woke up past 7am this morning (past 6am really) but actually we all got the same amount of hours as we did the night before.

@Lucyk1

Just tell her to go to bed an hour early. Get the same amount of sleep. What is she like when she flys to other countries. You lose lots of hours that way too

[laughs in insomnia]

@VeganVeal

Mine used to say this, elderly parents get so wearing after a while

I'm sure that they thought the same about you as a child!

Our bodies bio-rhythm will be out of sinc., for a few days when the clocks change, I know mine is.🙄
I particularly remember back in March 1984, I was leaving a job on the Friday that had a 9:30am start and starting a new job on the Monday with an 8:30am start. That would have been bad enough any other time of the year having to get up 1 hour earlier but it happened over the w/e that the clocks changed to BST., so in effect it felt as if my body had to get used to being up 2 hours earlier. 😴