There I Was, Sound Asleep, When All The Sudden...
By DW Davis
@DWDavis (25812)
Pikeville, North Carolina
March 19, 2016 4:34am CST
It was a Saturday morning not unlike many Saturday mornings before it. I was enjoying a sound sleep. Sunrise was still over an hour away. Then it happened. The noise.
The noise brought me from a deep slumber to fully awake in seconds. It pierced Morpheus vale like a knife. The noise set the dogs to bound about, insisting I rise and take care of matters immediately.
What was this awful noise? What was this horrible intrusion into my peace Saturday slumber? Why, it was my alarm clock radio blaring forth with the annoying sounds of the Saturday morning host spewing forth trivial information about the antics of someone old enough to know better.
Argh! Who forgot to turn off the alarm clock? The blame falls squarely on the shoulders of my lovely missus. The turning on and off of the alarm clock is her purview. Last night she forgot. So used to her handling this task was I that I failed to check when I went to bed to see if she'd done it or not.
So here I am at not yet 5:30am on a Saturday morning, typing away at the computer while waiting for the dogs to finish their morning constitutional. There was no just turning off the alarm and going back to sleep for once it had sounded, the dogs were convinced it was Pee O'clock and that was that.
Do you ever forget to turn off your alarm clock on your day off? Do you ever forget to turn it back on the night before you return to work?
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
19 Mar 16
I feel your pain! I am sure we have all done that at some time or another. Count it as a blessing you will be able to get so much more done today!
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
19 Mar 16
@DWDavis Noooooooooooo! Oh my goodness. You know as soon as I wake up I have to get up I can not go back to bed once I wake up! Just think of all the things you could have done that now won't get done till later!
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
19 Mar 16
@garymarsh6 When I was younger I used to do that. And if I have a lot to do, I still stay up if I get up early. But today we have deliberately planned as a long lazy day to putter about getting the camper ready for next weekend. And the wife was still sound asleep in bed, so there was that attracting me back to the comfort of the pillow and blankets.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Mar 16
I never use an alarm clock, not even when i worked. I always wake up way before time to get up.
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@DWDavis (25812)
• Pikeville, North Carolina
19 Mar 16
For a long time after I got out of the Army I would wake up every morning around 5am. Then I took a job working a 12 hour night shift. That was followed by a job with irregular hours. After that came college with its odd mix of early and late classes. My internal alarm clock has never been quite accurate since then.
@AbbyGreenhill (45496)
• United States
19 Mar 16
@DWDavis I guess that would get confusing!
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@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
19 Mar 16
I forget to turn it off all the time. You'd think by now I'd be past that, but no, I still forget.
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@Blondie2222 (28611)
• United States
19 Mar 16
I don't use an alarm clock so no i never forget to do this. I'm sorry you got woken up in your deep sleep and up early on a saturday morning. I hope you can get a nap in later today and hopefully tonight you will remember to turn off the alarm.
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@allknowing (130064)
• India
19 Mar 16
Why are your Saturdays minus the alarm clock and why is it set for such a ghastly hour for other days - if I have understood you correctly.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
19 Mar 16
OH dear how horrid poor DW.
Wish you could have went back to sleep but I like you am fully awake then cant go back to sleep.
I dont often set an alarm as my body tells me when to wake friend.
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. I love the Pee O'clock
@rina110383 (24495)
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19 Mar 16
Yes. I use my phone as alarm clock and I never tried to turn it off during rest days. It helps because I still have same sleeping habits on rest days. I never had problems sleeping early on Sunday.1 person likes this
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104632)
• United States
19 Mar 16
I use an alarm clock purely to ensure I am awake and able to do what I want / need to do before I have to trudge off to work. I HATED the early morning alarm clock though.
At one job I was working at such early / odd hours. I'd have to set my alarm for 3 am after only being asleep for two hours. It was not my cuppa that's for sure.
I guess you'll just have to take a mid-noon nap.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
19 Mar 16
We rarely turn off the alarm clock. We tend to forget to turn it back on. My husband works 7 days a week, for 7 week stretches so we are so accustomed to the alarm....I wake up even when the alarm is not set.
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