Changing Doctor Appointments
By DE
@DaddyEvil (161512)
United States
November 14, 2025 10:10am CST
I took Pretty for her doctor appointment at 4 pm yesterday but had forgotten how fast it gets dark now. I couldn't see highway signs or turns if they weren't lit up. I followed another car's taillights back to Aurora and then Pretty had to help me find the turns to get us home. (We need more lights in this city!)
I just changed my ophthalmologist appointment because it was at 3 pm in Springfield, 70 miles away from home and my endocrinologist appointment because it was at 7 am, also 70 miles away from home.
I'll have to remind Pretty that she can't make appointments that late in the day anymore. (I had to tell her to stop making appointments late in the day last year after the time change. Neither one of us remembered that.)
Do you have a problem seeing during twilight?
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@DaddyEvil (161512)
• United States
4h
I don't want to drive after dark. There are very few street lights here and some of the ditches along the streets are DEEP. I have missed turns before and ended up in somebody's yard.
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@DaddyEvil (161512)
• United States
4h
I'm sorry that happened. I hope you don't develop other eye issues as you get older. It's not fun.
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@celticeagle (181826)
• Boise, Idaho
1h
How scary for you both! I haven't had an issue with seeing yet. Of course I am not outside either. It sure gets black out.
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@DaddyEvil (161512)
• United States
2m
Yes, it does, especially when highways and intersections aren't well lit!
@FourWalls (80213)
• United States
4h
Right now, no, thank God. That doesn’t mean that I like being out at that time of the evening. I know my time’s coming. 
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@FourWalls (80213)
• United States
4h
@DaddyEvil — my biggest problem with it right now is this is deer mating season, so they’re running along (and across) the road about that time of the evening.
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@DaddyEvil (161512)
• United States
4h
@FourWalls True, there are a lot more accidents involving deer at this time of the year. My only accident with a deer happened in late November. Luckily, there wasn't much damage. The deer got scared and tried to jump over the hood of my car with me driving at 65 MPH. It left scrape marks from my right hand headlight across the hood that ended just before the glass windshield. The deer landed in the ditch, laid there for a few minutes, then got up and ran away.
I slammed on my brakes and a truck behind me smashed my taillights out. That was the worst of the damage.
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@DaddyEvil (161512)
• United States
4h
I don't think about it until something makes me be out very early or later in the day.
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@DaddyEvil (161512)
• United States
4h
I don't like to go out if we won't get home before dusk but I forgot how fast it starts getting dark now. And it's not like I can pull over and let Pretty drive. She doesn't have a license.
@Marilynda1225 (86924)
• United States
5h
Yes I've had trouble driving once it gets dark. Like you, I try to remember to make my appointments during the later part of the morning or early part of the afternoon. Appointments are hard enough to get these days without having to worry about it being dark.
Glad you got home safely and changed your appointments. It's hard to remember from year to year that once the time changes how early it gets dark.
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@DaddyEvil (161512)
• United States
4h
I just get so used to it being light when I'm wanting to go do stuff during the summer. The time change always takes me by surprise. I want them to set the clocks for one time and leave them alone.
