What is the perfect time to set your alarm for? (771 hits)
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Submitted by <No, no. HE sucked on MY cock. I'm not gay> (View user info) at 2004-08-20 14:36:48 EDT
This is a tough question that has been researched for many years (by many, many people). I'll try to break it down to a few general catagories though. And I do NOT claim to get them all, this is just for your amusement.
High-Strung:
This person has a very well defined morning routine. He/she knows exactly how long it takes to shower, eat, get dressed and brush his/her teeth before slipping on some shoes and bolting out the door. Keeping this in mind and counting backwards the alarm is set with about 10 seconds to spare in case something unexpected comes up. In a hurry from the moment of waking.
Snooze Junky:
This lucky person's spouse has the joy of a full hour of lost sleep listening to the alarm turning ON and OFF at 4 minute intervals because his/her spouse needs to 'wake up slowly' (you know who you are).
Mild Psychotic:
This is the one that will set the alarm for 5am on a Sunday just for the joy of being able to 'win' a round in the constant battle with the alarm. And yes, I actually knew a guy that used to do this. He highly recommended it. I never understood that.
Personally, I'm in the middle of High Strung and Snooze Junky. I have 2 alarms set 15 minutes apart and I get up on the second one. Yet no matter what method I've tried I'm late for work quite often anyway.
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Submitted by VirtuosoDilettante (user info) at 2004-09-17 14:03:15 EDT (#)
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I would be a High Strung Snooze Junky. The first time the alarm goes off is its last; then it's snooze time until I recoil out of dreamland.
Submitted by d_prime (user info) at 2004-08-24 04:25:46 EDT (#)
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sweet post
there are more kinds though!! do an extended part 2
Submitted by Falco (user info) at 2004-08-24 04:17:43 EDT (#)
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Mild Psychotic:
This is the one that will set the alarm for 5am on a Sunday just for the joy of being able to 'win' a round in the constant battle with the alarm. And yes, I actually knew a guy that used to do this. He highly recommended it. I never understood that.
Submitted by lux78 (user info) at 2004-08-24 04:15:22 EDT (#)
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Fucking hate waking up.
Submitted by drstrangedhruv (user info) at 2004-08-24 03:56:26 EDT (#)
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Same shit, different day.
Submitted by AvrilLaPete (user info) at 2004-08-21 14:03:57 EDT (#)
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I usually set my alarm an hour earlier than I want to wake up, just because I can sleep for about that long with it going off. Then I start using the snooze button. The worst thing that happens is when you hit snooze and get up, walk back into your room and the alarm is going off again and you realize how fucking annoying that is, and get mad and now you need a new alarm. Or some tape.
Submitted by BoogieFevuh (user info) at 2004-08-21 13:45:03 EDT (#)
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alarm?
Submitted by WiKi (user info) at 2004-08-21 13:34:19 EDT (#)
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I have to wake up slowly..
Submitted by kiekomunster (user info) at 2004-08-21 13:26:02 EDT (#)
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I am sorry but I have to contest the name, even if it is just him sucking your cock you are evidentually gay. Sorry to burst your bubble Gnome. :) Interesting read though. Depending on what is going on in my life, I am also usually in between the snoozer and the get up right away categories. Although when I have to be somewhere that I either don't want to be or I just couldn't give two shakes I snooze it all the way till I have half hour to get ready. :)
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2004-08-20 21:24:14 EDT (#)
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18 minutes ahead? so the strange number is because of the math thing eh? mine's ten minutes ahead. tried the not-round number thing before, didn't work. apparently i THINK i can do math while half asleep and i was late more often.
but i can relate.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2004-08-20 18:32:10 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:29:52 (#)
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I set it early, so it compensates for the 7 times that I spike the snooze button
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yes. well, that and i have the clock set 18 minutes ahead. I can't do
math in the morning so I get up thinking it is later than it actually is.
It doesn't really work that well. I am a failure!
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2004-08-20 18:08:01 EDT (#)
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Avals: THANK YOU! and here i thought that name was going to waste completely.
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2004-08-20 17:53:18 EDT (#)
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Damn it, you're right! That name deserves a +2 and nothing less!
"No, no. HE sucked on MY cock. I'm not gay." It's funny because it's true.
Submitted by Val (user info) at 2004-08-20 17:08:14 EDT (#)
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you deserve it
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2004-08-20 17:00:17 EDT (#)
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I'll vote for 10:11am, EDT
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2004-08-20 16:45:41 EDT (#)
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stabkill: maybe that explains why i'm able to stay up for 30 hours straight while i is gettin' my drink on.
Submitted by Stabkill (user info) at 2004-08-20 16:35:00 EDT (#)
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I hit the snooze button ONCE (unless I get up right after the first alarm).
http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/60/66947.htm
Submitted by Val (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:33:01 EDT (#)
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Personally, I'm in the middle of High Strung and Snooze Junky. I have 2 alarms set 15 minutes apart and I get up on the second one. Yet no matter what method I've tried I'm late for work quite often anyway.
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ME TOO!
Submitted by RateBot (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:32:03 EDT (#)
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As a insomniac i found this mildly hurtful,but not really
Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:29:52 EDT (#)
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I set it early, so it compensates for the 7 times that I spike the snooze button.
Submitted by tinactin (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:20:44 EDT (#)
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I don't even use an alarm. Somehow I always just wake up at the appropriate time.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:12:49 EDT (#)
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Loren1: i came up with it and wrote it all in about 10 minutes or it probably would've had a few more thoughts in it. I'll think more about it and see what other kind of people are out there before i consider making it a FWD email. but i'm lazy, so who knows.
and i really expected the odd posative mark for what i considered a brilliant pen-name. maybe it's just because it's a running gag with my friends that i find it funny though.
details.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:04:26 EDT (#)
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Usually I set it an hour before your mom has to get to work
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2004-08-20 15:01:39 EDT (#)
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Really not a bad start to what could be a lasting email forward.
You should fine-tune it and come up with 3 to 6 more examples.
I wasn't on here, for example.
My story is - No matter WHAT time I manage to get up, I'm 15 minutes late for work. So lately I've just said fuckit, I'm setting my clock for 8 instead of 7. I gained an hour's sleep, and I'm still the same15 minutes late for work every day.
Works for me.
Submitted by cutiepie (user info) at 2004-08-20 14:48:22 EDT (#)
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i set mine an hour and a half before i have to get to work. I get up usually half an hour before I have to be there. I've learned to prepare myself- I set out clothes the night before.
Submitted by Avals (user info) at 2004-08-20 14:44:19 EDT (#)
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I usually set my alarm about an hour before I need to be out of the house. I don't actually take an hour to get ready, mind you; most of my morning is dedicated to sitting on the couch in front of the TV. What can I say? I'm slow to wake up.
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2004-08-20 14:44:04 EDT (#)
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dealing with the alarm show something about you. which brand of notquiteright are you?
Submitted by legallady (user info) at 2004-08-20 14:42:56 EDT (#)
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snooze alarms piss me off. when it goes off get the fuck out
of bed. My husband is a snoozer. I am a get up before it goes
off person. I hate to hear the alarm ruins my whole day.
Submitted by jme7551 (user info) at 2004-08-20 14:42:48 EDT (#)
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im the queen of the snooze junkies
Submitted by alienlifeform (user info) at 2004-08-20 14:42:25 EDT (#)
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I wonder do we really need to separate humans by how they wake up? Does this really say something about us? Or is it just the way we wake up? And why are we here anyway?