Rise and shine? I don't freakin' think so!!
Can someone please explain to me why the off button on my alarm clock is right next to the snooze button? Seriously, what is up with that?
The alarm went off this morning and I hit the snooze - one...two...three times. Yes, I agree the third time was overkill, but I was so comfy in my bed I just wanted to lay there for another few minutes. Uh huh, a few minutes give or take ninety or so. An hour and a half later, I woke up. Apparently I turned off my alarm rather than just delaying it. Fuck.
Alarm clocks should be outlawed all together, if you ask me. But since they are a necessary evil, they should at the very least have the off button on the bottom of the damn clock and it should require a long and involved launch-code type sequence of numbers so you don't accidentally turn it off. And the alarm itself should be really, really annoying. Something that will move your ass right out of bed. For me, that would be the sound of a dentist drill. Yikes! I'd never hit the snooze alarm again!
The alarm went off this morning and I hit the snooze - one...two...three times. Yes, I agree the third time was overkill, but I was so comfy in my bed I just wanted to lay there for another few minutes. Uh huh, a few minutes give or take ninety or so. An hour and a half later, I woke up. Apparently I turned off my alarm rather than just delaying it. Fuck.
Alarm clocks should be outlawed all together, if you ask me. But since they are a necessary evil, they should at the very least have the off button on the bottom of the damn clock and it should require a long and involved launch-code type sequence of numbers so you don't accidentally turn it off. And the alarm itself should be really, really annoying. Something that will move your ass right out of bed. For me, that would be the sound of a dentist drill. Yikes! I'd never hit the snooze alarm again!
posted by kcterrilynn at 8:50 AM
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why don't you put your alarm clock out of reaching distance so you have to get out of bed to turn it off?
Carl - I think I can answer that for my baby sis. If she is anything like me she would simply get out of bed, hit the snooze and crawl right back into bed...repeatedly!!!
Carl- That would actually make sense, and well, we just can't have that!! ;)
Sis- You're probably right... Although, I'd do it in a cheerful-morning person-c'mon let's get started on the day-just-like-Mom ("C'mon girls, let's get up!! *clap, clap* We've got lots of things to do today! *clap, clap*) kind of way, whereas yours is more of a growly-surly-mono syllabic-if you know what's good for you, don't talk to me until noon-grumpy-grrrrrr-just-like-a-mean-old-bear kind of way. (Holy run-on, not to mention completely grammatically incorrect sentence, Batman!!)
Yep, my alarm is way across the room. Only way it works
The Boy used to do the across the room thing, didn't work. He finally had to buy three alarm clocks for different parts of his apartment. Lazy ass...
"i wanna know what love is...i want you to show me"
Carl- don't tease me so, my dear...
i quit using an alarm years ago...now i just set the timer on my tv to go off and on...it's much easier on my brain in the a.m. :)
My internal alarm clock always wakes me up unless I medicate SO heavily that I just keep sleeping, but that never happens.
I recently saw an alarm clock on the Internet (don't have the link) about an alarm clock that had four puzzle pieces on top. When the alarm went off, the pieces shot into the air and landed somewhere around the room.
To shut the alarm off, you had to find the pieces and assemble the puzzle on top of the clock. I guess they figured that that would wake you up.
I have an incredibly difficult time waking up, but I would never want a clock like that. I'd smash it to bit. ...and not put the pieces back together.
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