(On a Sunday morning, Friend 1 groggily awakens to the cell phone vibrating on the nearby lamp table)
Friend 1: (Sloppily grabbing the phone and answering it) Muh-yeh-loh?
Friend 2: (On the phone, standing outside a busy restaurant) So, are you cancelling for today?
Friend 1: Hm-day?
Friend 2: We were supposed to meet for brunch at 10:30 this morning.
Friend 1: Muh-yeh?
Friend 2: Yes.
Friend 1: Wha – (Rubs eyes and clears throat) What time is it?
Friend 2: 10:40.
Friend 1: (Shifts to look at the alarm clock on the lamp table, then shifts back to the pillow) Isn’t. It’s 9:40. Still earlier than I wake up on a day off, I’ll have you know.
Friend 2: Are you looking at your alarm clock or at your cell phone clock?
Friend 1: Alarm. Which is set to go off in five minutes, so that’s five minutes of sleep I’ll never get back, I thank you.
Friend 2: You should thank me: check your cell phone clock.
Friend 1: (Sighs and leans back while holding out the cell phone to check the time, staring at it for several seconds without blinking before bringing it back to speak) Must be some glitch – how’d you know my phone’s broken?
Friend 2: It’s not, you dope: the clocks turned ahead an hour at 2 a.m.!
Friend 1: 2 a.m. … this morning?
Friend 2: Yes!
Friend 1: Why?
Friend 2: Because it’s supposed to save daylight or something!
Friend 1: No, I mean, why today? Spring’s not until the 20th.
Friend 2: I don’t know, maybe it’s to celebrate International Women’s Day here with an hour less of sleep but an hour more of sunshine! Bottom line: forget about brunch since you’re not even awake yet, and we’ll figure out when to go another time.
Friend 1: (Starts stumbling out of bed) Now, hold on – we missed brunch, but we can move straight into lunch at this point, right?
Friend 2: No, you missed brunch. I’m going in since I have a reservation and I’m not being cheated out of my brioche French toast that I’ve been looking forward to all week, so – bye. (Ends the call and goes into the restaurant to have brunch)
(Friend 1 falls back into bed, dropping the phone onto the floor; the alarm clock goes off; Friend 1 reaches back and unplugs it from the wall, making it also drop onto the floor)
Friend 1: Want my hour back zzzzzzzzz….