Don't let them turn it BACKWARDS... FORWARDS... or UpSiDe DoWn

[spatch]

I forgot to send this one over the tubes last weekend but altoidsaddict brings us this lovely piece of American ephemera: A drive-in intermission message denouncing Daylight Saving Time. I especially like the "Follow the sun" bit, which almost veers into Polyphonic Spree territory for a moment there.

At first this may seem like a real non-sequitur. I mean, who would have it in for DST so bad they'd make an announcement (albeit one with a catchy tune) like this? Indiana residents? Well, okay, but the answer is much more simple when you think about it: Drive-In operators themselves.

Daylight Saving Time pushes the clocks forward during the spring and summer months, so the sun goes down later. Seeing as how you can't watch a drive-in movie until the sun's fully set, the drive-ins -- still firmly attached to the belief that they provide quality family entertainment, not just for a place for hormonal teenagers without GPS units to try for a ground-rule double -- must start their movies later. Kids have to be in bed early and teenagers have curfews and all that rot, so it's easy to see how drive-ins would consider DST a severe blow to their income. Besides, a double feature ending at 10:00 feels a lot earlier than one ending at 11:00.

Don't you agree?

Then WRITE YOUR NEWSPAPER EDITOR
...AND YOUR GOVERNOR

Comments

[arielblue.livejournal.com]

Hell, in Indiana -- now that we have fallen under the spell of DST -- you can't even START a drive-in movie until at least 10:00 in the summer, and it's not really fully dark until 10:30 or so. So your double feature isn't likely to end until well past midnight.

Or later, if the political diatribes beforehand are lengthy. ;)

Expect us to carp about this further when it gets closer to the 4th of July and we realize that any little kids who go out to see the big fireworks display aren't gonna get home till after midnight....