Today started daylight savings time. I have a crystal clear memory of my Mom sitting in the front, passenger’s seat of our station wagon when we were in Texas and my Dad, who was driving, asked her what time it was. She would look at her watch and ask him, “Do you want the ‘real time’ or the ‘pretend time’?”
I remember her saying that often and it was ‘pretend time’ because we are in Texas and the ‘real time’ was in Michigan. I remember my Dad kind of getting irritated by that.
I had talked to my Mom about the time change coming on Sunday and I told her about this meme that I saw:
I told my Mom that I am just going to rely on my cell phone. She agreed with me. She was going to do that too. Until…
Once she gets me out of bed, she goes outside to tend to the leaves. I sit in my house taking my vitamins, drinking my shake, and praying. She was going to come back into the house to help me put my contacts in. She watches me as I put them in. My hands are no longer that steady so sometimes it takes a while.
She came into the house early today by one hour to put my contacts in and I couldn’t understand why she was here early. She had looked at the clock on the stove and I told her that clock is wrong that’s why we have to just rely on our phones, they are magic!
Last night we laughed about her talking about ‘real’ versus ‘pretend’ time and today we laughed about her coming into the house early. Both of our internal clocks are so messed up that we’re not sure how it’s going to affect us now but we will see!