I was scheduled to usher at the Kauffman Center with a start time of 1:45. I carefully planned my strategy to be on time with the first day without daylight savings.
My watch was to remain on daylight savings time. My phone would switch automatically.
Terry and I had an early breakfast at the non daylight time of 10:00 am.
When the phone said it was time for me to head for downtown KC, everything was perfect. My confidence was supreme. I decided to change the car clock while I was driving. That’s when hell started. I have to manually push a button to change the visual clock. I made it one hour slower than my watch. Another place on the dashboard tells me the time by hour and minute like 2:25. I went into settings and tried to erase the daylight savings button, but I had turned it back on again.
I returned and removed daylight savings from the settings and my world became horribly confused.
My watch was telling me a confusing time. The automated car clock was telling me it was after 2:00. What! I was late!
I went back into settings and discovered I had changed the time designation from Central time to Eastern time. But my watch was still telling me something entirely different than the automated clock.
I was almost at the turn off to the Kauffman Center. I had no idea what time it was. Perhaps I was an hour late. I planned to throw myself on the mercy of people in charge of ushers and beg their forgiveness.
Hmmmm, not many cars parked around the building Hmmm not many cars in the parking garage.
I went into the building and asked the parking garage usher greeter what time it was. A miracle happened, I was right on time!
I was chatting later about the evil witch effect of time change with another usher. He mentioned that his watch changed to non-daylight savings time automatically. I glared at my watch. It had the correct time. I swear I did not touch my watch last night. This is a $8.00 watch purchased from Walmart.
Are $8.00 watches able to change the time or did my sleeping pill erase my memory? I have to wait till daylight savings return in 2019 to see what this watch will do!
scream!
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