alarm clock: hate or love?

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it wakes me up and i have to go to work. i hate my alarm clock..but other people might not. maybe some people like to woken up to do things. it's summer..argh

― kevin enas, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The concept of time just pisses me off in general. Why can't I just show up for things whenever I feel like showing up? Why doesn't time operate by my schedule? It's a pain in the ass. I don't see te purpose of showing up at work at 9am. I mean, I'm dead for the first two hours or so anyhow, so why not show up later and work til I'm done then move on with my life? Clocks in general are hate for me. I refuse to wear a watch.

― Ally, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm not working at the moment. I'd love an alarm clock to tell me where I'm at...I get up at 2 in the day recently

― Michael, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I had a watch, but the battery died. Haven't changed it in over 3 or 4 months. Haven't noticed, either.

Alarm clocks, though - ehh. They're actually my savior, sometimes. Whenever I show up abnormally late, I blame my inability to set the clock properly. Genius.

― David Raposa, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mine is evil and braying -- which is exactly the way I want it, otherwise I'd never get up. Time is immeasurably useful to me in that I couldn't get the bus connections I need without it.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have never used an alarm clock. I have this internal clock, where I just think of what time I need to get up and I never wake up late. Weekdays, I automatically wake up at 4:45, and weekends I wake at 6.

― michele, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hate. You should see my sleep pattern, for a start :).

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Alarm clock = annoyance but I usually have a couple of hours (this summer at least) after it goes off before I have to be anywhere so it's not so bad. I can actually wake up and get out of bed within an hour now. When I first came to college I slept straight through two hours of alarm.

And like David I had a watch but the battery died and I haven't replaced it. Sometimes I don't know what time it is but there are clocks everywhere. If I need a bus and there's no clock around I just stand by the stop and wait.

― Josh, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i have 2 alarm clocks which had the "sleep" function bashed off..but if i've only had a few hours to sleep i just tear off the back. and once or twice i have used the "clock set on PM instead of AM" excuse..

― kevin enas, Saturday, 30 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Haven't really used mine in years. I always wake up an hour before I have to get out of bed. Is this a sign of maturity? Even when I had a job I *really* had to be on time for, like when I was driving a motorhome for TV commercials, I would always be so nervous about oversleeping that I would wake up every fifteen minutes anyway. These days, I get up way ahead of time, then mosey around forever--checking e-mail, making coffee, reading magazines and junk. I still always end up fifteen minutes late.

― Arthur, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Even though I wake up minutes before it starts I let it play through. A speaking clock that almost sounds like it cares. It starts off perky and friendly, saying "It's time to wake up" every fifteen seconds, if left it gets a bit more irritated "Wake up", then eventually "Wake up NOW!", on loop till I give it some attention. But what makes it so endearing is the how it's aged, the voice is weary and broken, it sounds defeated when the batteries are running low, "waake up, noo(glitch)ooowww" so I normally get up to put it out of it's misery.

― K-reg, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Talk about divide and rule: blaming a bloody clock for our shite lives...

― christopher, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Get a radio alarm, man. I wake up to Radio 2, 3 or 4 - Radio 1 is too bastard NOISY first thing. Plus Scott Mills' annoying upward- inflection makes me want to kick my stereo in whenever I hear it. And that won't do.

By the by, I too have a stopped watch. The battery ran out about four months ago and, as it's a waste of time getting replacement batteries - they never seem to last very long - I've left it. I still sometimes wear it as well, as a piece of jewelery. It's stuck at 5 to 6.

― DavidM, Sunday, 1 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have the wonderful catch all method of being woken up when everyone else leaves the house (usually circa 8) giving me plenty of time for a fried breakfast before I saunter into work for about 10-ish.

Have a radio alarm if going on holiday. Nice invention.

― Pete, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Routine:
8.00. Bart/Homer bickering on Simpsons radio-alarm. mark s awakes, eager to do an hours important musicwriting before slouching to work
8.01-3 Radio Four news lulls mark s back to sleep. He dreams of John Prescott (well, once he did).
8.30-ish. Alarm clock wakes mark s at time he felt he would need reawakening the night before. He reaches out sleepily and adjusts the alarm to taste
c.8.50/9.10/9.25: alarm goes off again. to be adjusted again
9.35 mark s awakes and hurries to work, arriving as ever a cool 15 mins late.

― mark s, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Love (well, don't mind): my alarm going off at 7:10 as I don't mind mornings except when I am hungover. OK, maybe I do mind mornings.

Hate: being woken up by other people's alarm clocks in my flat which go off before 7:10. I think I was the person used to test all alarm clocks as I always always get woken up by them even if they are 17 rooms away. Pah.

― Emma, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't need an alarm clock - I always wake up earlier than anyone else and I can never get back to sleep. It's rubbish.

― Tom, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm the same. I always wake before my alarm clock wakes me up, and then countdown until it goes off. But, anyway, I hate my alarm clock because it always reminds me it's time to go to work. I might like it if it went off to remind me that I was about to eat some chocolate, or win lots of money or something...

― Paul Strange, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If you perfect a clock that tells you when you're going to win lots of money, please send me one.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I rarely need to use the alarm anymore because my 18 pound cat will start jumping on me at about 5:30 am demanding to be fed. It's akin to being attacked by a small bobcat, so that tends to wake me up pretty well.

― Nicole, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When Mr. Kitty pulls that shit, we just pound him a good one and he goes back to sitting around, being insane. He stopped attacking us for food eventually. He's too small to be much of a nuisance anyhow. HOWEVER he does get jealous of the men in my life and attacks them in the mornings now, if I have anyone over. He also attacks Stephanie's men, but not as much as mine. It's very strange, I think he thinks he's my boyfriend.

― Ally, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Maybe he's just trying to assert some Quality Control? ;-)

― Nicole, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, with some of the men who've been over, I can understand that, but I think my personal quality control has been good over the past month. I mean, we're talking men who are actually NICE to the cat, for starters...

― Ally, Monday, 2 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, I have an radio alarm clock set to "1fm", but as I work in the evenings anyway I just usually sleep through it or wake up before 10:58am which is what I chose to set it to.

― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 3 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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