Daylight Saving Time

I turned my watch forward about ten days ago, I noticed that my Oregon Scientific thermometer had already changed to the correct time, apparently connected to the Atomic Clock. It got me thinking about the time change, and what day it happens each year. I remember that the date this year March 8th was different than some dates in the past. I looked online and found that it changes a lot through the years. 

I didn't really want to talk about Daylight Saving Time, except that I knew a guy that used to get so bent when someone said Daylight Savings Time. He had a problem with the -S- at the end of Saving. I think it's funny because now I always notice when someone says Savings. I have always had more of an issue with the local weather man saying "The days are getting longer". I hear that every year and I had to wonder are they really getting longer, so I timed it, no it's still 24 hours.

Like I said I didn't really want to talk about Daylight Saving Time, I wanted to talk about April Fool's Day. In particular an April Fool's Day that happened at the same time as Daylight Saving Time change over. I was working as a cook at the Husky Truck Stop [home of the famous Husky Burger], that year when the time change fell on April 1st. That morning I was working morning shift for the first time since I started cooking there, before that morning I always cooked the graveyard shift. The morning waitress came to work that day, and she asked me "What are you still doing here?" She of course wasn't used to seeing me working the morning shift and was unaware of the shift switch that I had made with the regular morning cook, a guy that is also named Bill. [same as me] When she asked me "Where's Bill?" I simply shrugged, and left it at that. I cooked several orders and didn't think about it much at all. The waitress asked me again, "Why are you still here?" "Where's Bill?" And that's when it hit me, what a great time for a practical joke. I told her that the other cook, Bill probably forgot to set his clock forward the night before, and has apparently slept in. She looked at me with panic on her face, " What are we going to do?" "Bill doesn't have a phone so we can't call him!" I of course knew that even if he had a phone, he couldn't be reached because he was out of town, the reason I switched shifts with him in the first place. I played along thinking "What great fun it is to play this April Fool's joke on the waitress. "Yeah" I said "I don't know what we're going to do."  Well here is where the seemingly harmless Fool's day prank gets funny, or maybe it's not so funny. The waitress runs next door to the office and calls the boss, wakes her up, she is still half asleep, probably from losing an hour of sleep that morning due to the time change. The waitress tells the boss that Bill didn't show up for work. The boss knows about the shift change I made with the other cook named Bill, but she assumes that I must have forgot about working the other Bill's shift. She knows that she can't call me because I also  have no phone. So she rushes over to my trailer only to find nobody there, after all I can't be there because I'm at work yucking up the joke I played on the waitress. 

So what are the odds, two cooks named Bill a shift switch, neither  are answering their door, DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME ,APRIL FOOL'S DAY wow really what more do you you need for a practical joke. A waitress in a panic, a sleepy boss lady, and a wise guy like me to watch it all unfold. Well the boss came in the back door to find me there cooking and doing prep just like I was supposed to be doing. The look on her face was,,,,well lets just say that she was not smiling. She wanted to know why the waitress called her and woke her up on her day off, why she said that I hadn't shown up for work. She really didn't get the joke. How could that be, after all the coincidental irony was hilarious, wasn't it? Well I thought it was anyway. 

The Husky Truck Stop was just one of many places I cooked food for hungry folks, I tried to do a good job while having a good time at all of those places. I had a lot of fun while I cooked at the Husky Truck Stop a job I held for about 4 months from sometime in December till April 1st. Damn I love a good joke, I guess that everyone doesn't have a sense of humor like me though.

Oh by the way, do you know why it was called the home of the famous Husky Burger? I think  it's because it would be in bad taste to call it home of the famous German Shepherd Burger. Duh!!