An Alarm Clock War

When I was young, which was not that long ago as far as I'm concerned, I remember my little brother had this problem awakening himself in the morning, and me being the bright chipper morning person that I am would always make sure he was up on time, it was my "job."

However, he had his own battle with the alarm clock. Every morning I was up at 6:30am -- me the morning person! College has since adjusted that procol just slightly, but at 7am my brothers alarm would go off and CONTINUE to ring and ding, he couldn't even manage to hit the snooze button! It would make me angry to listen to that damn alarm clock for an hour before he really had to get up so I had to develop a new routine to subside my anger.

Enter, dancing in my underwear stage of my life....

To combat the sound of his alarm in the morining I developed a new routine to mask that ring ding of his awful alarm with an invisible snooze button. Remember I live in the country surrounded by trees, pond, wetlands, and wildlife...therefore making all of this a little less scandalous (and both parents were off to work already). Every morning I would get up and in my large t-shirt and my little girl undies, slide on my dads tennis shoes from the mud room and trapse outside with the dogs to let the horses outside and do chores. Upon coming inside accompanied be canines with empty bladders I would turn on the radio in the kitchen and blare the tunes of whatever was hip in pop culture that morning and prepare a hot meal for the dogs. While they ate I would finish up the dishes in the sink and head up to shower and change for school. The routine woudl continue when I cam eback downstairs to prepare breakfast and such before I got to head upstairs and yell at little bro to turn off the damn alarm clock, his snooze time was OVER!! At home I had an escape from the ring ding of his damn alarm clock and today was deja vu --- but more like stuck in a prison cell deja vu.

The roommate for some unknown reason set her alarm clock to 6AM this morning. SHE NEVER GETS UP BEFORE ME -- NEVER!! Today however, at 6AM the ring ding came, the snooze, then ring ding, snooze, ring-ding, snooze, ring ding, snooze .... and I trapped in my little 6x6 room am STUCK!! No radio, no dancing in my underwear, where the hell would I trapse to..... AHHHH!! Every time that ring-ding set in I would sit up in bed wide awake and look my alarm clock to hit the OFF button because I SNOOZE is the worst invention ever!! Today I really thought murder may have been possible....

Oh, wait ... it gets even better! So when my alarm clock did finally go off and I had been wide awake for an hour and a half longer that usual I get right up and out of bed getting ready for a shower a wash away all of my frustration when the roomie finally opens her eyes and requests I wait for my shower for a minute so she can pee... HELLO, the alarm has been going on and off for the last hour?? Oh was I mad!! Her defense -- "well I reset the alarm clock it hasn't gone off for at least a half and hour...." Um, what about the previous 60 minutes? Can you all feel my amusement here? Damn, I am way to amazing of a roommate -- really!

Who in god's name sets and alarm clock and then doesn't get up!! OOOHH! New pet peeve revealed!! And in my brothers case who sets and alarm and sleeps right through it unable to even have the courtesy to hit the snooze button? Boys, wierd!!