A Funny Story

I was reminded of this because of Daylight Saving Time.  It doesn't involve that directly, but it does involve time...

I shared one apartment with 2 other guys.   I was actually the person with the lease, but I was broke, so I found another broke guy to share the large bedroom with me and a guy with a good job to take the smaller single bedroom. 

I'll call the guy with the good job "Jim" (well that was his name).  His routine was to return from work, eat a TV Dinner, and drink Colt 45 beer until he eventually passed out in bed.  Got up every morning where to all accounts he was very good at his job as the Parts Manager at a car dealership. 

One Saturday afternoon, he had been drinking beer since morning (watching someone get up at 8 am and guzzling a beer is stomach-churning) and sat in a chair just waking up at twilight.  So I pulled a trick on him. 

Since he needed to get up around dawn, and dusk was about the same, my roomie and I pretended to be leaving for OUR jobs.  And roused Jim and told him he was going to be late for work!  He panicked and rushed out of the house.  Give us some credit here, we made sure he was actually functional and sober, just accepting our actions based on half-light. 

When he came back, realizing it was getting darker not lighter outside, and we were both sitting around watching TV instead of leaving for work ourselves, he was stunned. 

We cracked up.