Time Bandits

I have one of those clock radios with two separate alarms on it. One is set about 15 minutes after the other. The first is a quiet chirping that gently rouses me from slumber. I slap the snooze, and go back to sleep. The first goes off again a few minutes later, slightly louder than before. I slap the snooze bar and almost return to deep sleep mode. It goes off again, and again slightly louder. I slap snooze, and moments later, the second alarm goes off like an air raid klaxon.

Did I mention that the clock resides on my dresser, a good eight steps away from my bed?

It really does take this much to get me going in the mornings. And even with all of that, sometimes I still manage to oversleep.

I agree about the setting of time ahead except in the case of setting one's alarm clock ahead because I find the calculation of the "real" time in the morning a complicated enough process to wake me up.

I know exactly they type of person you are describing 'cause I am one of them. The clock at the side of my bed is set twenty minutes fast and the alarm is set about fifteen minutes earlier than I actually expect to wake, but then you have to consider that the clock is set twenty minutes fast. Every morning I manage to run these calculations through my head, hit snooze about three times, and still come to work late.

Are we neighbors? LOL.

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-the Swatch beat is the time signal for us Internet workers who deal with people in 6 time zones!

i am so delirious when i wake up, i will believe whatever time my clock says, regardless of whether i know it's 30 minutes fast in my normal (supposedly improved) mental state.

I've got a roommate with three different alarms clocks, each set to go off at different times, and each hidden in a different place before going to sleep. He wakes up and goes on a hunt. Even funnier is when my second roommate wakes up to the first's alarms and hunts through his room to shut them off. I just sit in the living room and laugh. We're the odd triple, I think.

great topic..
i have two alarm clocks..
first one i'll unconsciously snooze of, and i set the other one a few minutes, and puts it a few feet away from my bed...

regarding Swatch beat time - it doesn't work, sure it's one time for the whole world, but try telling someone 10 time zones a head of you to video conference late @900 swatch beat tuesday. oops that is @900 wednesday for him... they should have done it with weeks instead... 1000 beats per day.. 7000 beats per week.. then it would solve the true problem of syncing time around the world...

I'm the kind of guy who set it's clock fast.

I fasten (?) my clock to the amount of time I need to go the station. Of course I know how much time it takes me to go the station, but it's easier to look at the clock and see if it shows a time before my train departure I know I'll have my train.

I also "like" to snooze my alarm clock, it might just be in my head but it makes me feel more awake. In fact the first alarm awakes me, and I take some time ( few snooze ) to finish my dreams, think, relax... before I really wake up

I set my alarm clock so that it will show the correct time. However, the clock doesn't want this, as over a month or so it is about ten minutes ahead of schedule. This is annoying since it mean I get to sleep less and less in additon to being zombiefied in the mornings. (ten a'clock was never meant to be experienced by mankind.)

Oh boy, I think I win. I have four alarm clocks, and one has two alarms. I also use my television as an alarm occasionally. That's six buzzing or chirping sounds. On a typical day I will use three of these, but when it's really important I break out all six. Oh, and I still oversleep.

My partner is one of these "multiple alarm instance" people who snoozes repeatedly before wakening. Since his departure time for work isn't set in stone, he's been known to keep this every-five-to-ten-minutes thing up for an ENTIRE HOUR. Usually it's just half an hour's worth, but...

I take a very long time to get back to sleep when awoken. Usually, I've just dropped off or am just dropping off when his alarm goes off again. I'm also the sort of person who feels weird physical pain when repeatedly prodded at the dropping point this way. He, however, can not only return to sleep instantly, he can sleep through the ever-louder alarms.

Rrg.

Needless to say, it takes one beep on my alarm clock for me to get up. I set it ten minutes earlier than I have to, but that's to get out ten minutes early and to have buffer time in case of emergency.

People who purposely set their watches ahead really, really irk me. Not only because they know their watches are set ahead, defeating the purpose, but also because on those rare occasions when they think they are on time (but are actually ten minutes early), they get mad at the people who haven't shown up yet for being late. Even though they "know" their watch is fast, their whole pointless ruse seems so clever to them, they feel everyone should be with their program.
The same goes for jobs I've worked on. You're expected to go by the clocks at work, no matter how far off they are. Often I've asked them to sync the clocks so I would not appear late when I'm on time or early. Especially after long weekends, vacations or time changes, I never knew *what* time the clocks would say at work. My coworkers didn't want to change the clocks, because if it's set ahead, we get to go home a few minutes early. OK, if you want to leave early, we can set the clocks correctly and you can leave at 4:50. NO! Then they would get in trouble for leaving early! Wait a minute, don't you realize you'd be leaving at the same time you're leaving now? (sigh) A very frustrating conversation.

i was a ten-minute-aheader for nine years. in the back of my head, i knew that sooner or later i'd have to drop it. finally i did, but i gained 15 pounds.