Alarm Clock Etiquette
Mar 29th 2006, 8:55 am
#16
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Buy him a new clock and smash the other one with a baseball bat
If that doesn't work, make HIM sleep on the couch.
My hubby get's up a couple of hours before me some mornings, but he turns the alarm right off and tiptoes around the house. Bless him!
If that doesn't work, make HIM sleep on the couch.
My hubby get's up a couple of hours before me some mornings, but he turns the alarm right off and tiptoes around the house. Bless him!
Mar 29th 2006, 8:58 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Have kids - then you'll never sleep long enough for the alarm to go off anyhow!
Mar 29th 2006, 9:05 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by Jenney & Mark
I'm guessing that this will be a combination of a much-needed rant and an attempt to get some suggestions on how to fix this.
Ok, here's the problem:
Mark and I both work in retail, and rarely do we have to wake up at the same time. He has his alarm clock and I have mine.
I am a pretty light sleeper. Once my alarm goes off I either 1) turn it off and immediately get out of bed; or 2) reset the alarm for 15-20 minutes later (the latest I can get away with) and when the alarm goes off the second time, I turn it off and get up. My alarm clock never goes off more than twice and only beeps 3-4 times max before I turn it off. This is the case regardless of whether Mark is sleeping next to me or not.
Mark, on the other hand, is a snoozer. He will keep pushing the snooze button repeatedly, and it goes off every three minutes or something. Even worse, because he's a heavy sleeper, he puts it on the SUPER SONIC alarm setting, which scares the freaking bejesus out of me every time it goes off. (He has the "world's loudest alarm clock" and I can vouch that it is the loudest damn thing I have ever heard. It's at least as loud as our smoke detector, and that's LOUD!) Sometimes he'll do this alarm-goes-off-every-three-minutes routine for 20 minutes or more.
He does this even when I am still trying to sleep because I start work later than he does.
Mark is a wonderful man, but this is something he does that I find incredibly insensitive. I have asked him before not to do it -- that I would rather he reset his alarm for 15-20 minutes later so it doesn't keep me awake. His response is, "I've been doing this my whole life; you can't expect me to just stop this habit now!" I respond to that by reminding him that marriage is about compromise.
I often will gently try to encourage him to get out of bed, and this causes him to leave in a huff because I haven't let him "sleep in". What's so hard about doing resetting the alarm!?! *I* do it!!!
This really pisses me off and I don't know what to do about it.
There's no point in suggesting I wear earplugs because I already do: To block out Mark's snoring. I remind him that I didn't use to wear earplugs before I married him, so that's MY way of compromising -- why can't HE compromise?! The earplugs I have are the strongest ones around that fit my ears and are comfortable. There's also no point in suggesting that I sleep in a different bedroom -- we only have one!
Ok, rant over. Feel free to make suggestions and/or post your own alarm clock etiquette rantings...
~ Jenney
Ok, here's the problem:
Mark and I both work in retail, and rarely do we have to wake up at the same time. He has his alarm clock and I have mine.
I am a pretty light sleeper. Once my alarm goes off I either 1) turn it off and immediately get out of bed; or 2) reset the alarm for 15-20 minutes later (the latest I can get away with) and when the alarm goes off the second time, I turn it off and get up. My alarm clock never goes off more than twice and only beeps 3-4 times max before I turn it off. This is the case regardless of whether Mark is sleeping next to me or not.
Mark, on the other hand, is a snoozer. He will keep pushing the snooze button repeatedly, and it goes off every three minutes or something. Even worse, because he's a heavy sleeper, he puts it on the SUPER SONIC alarm setting, which scares the freaking bejesus out of me every time it goes off. (He has the "world's loudest alarm clock" and I can vouch that it is the loudest damn thing I have ever heard. It's at least as loud as our smoke detector, and that's LOUD!) Sometimes he'll do this alarm-goes-off-every-three-minutes routine for 20 minutes or more.
He does this even when I am still trying to sleep because I start work later than he does.
Mark is a wonderful man, but this is something he does that I find incredibly insensitive. I have asked him before not to do it -- that I would rather he reset his alarm for 15-20 minutes later so it doesn't keep me awake. His response is, "I've been doing this my whole life; you can't expect me to just stop this habit now!" I respond to that by reminding him that marriage is about compromise.
I often will gently try to encourage him to get out of bed, and this causes him to leave in a huff because I haven't let him "sleep in". What's so hard about doing resetting the alarm!?! *I* do it!!!
This really pisses me off and I don't know what to do about it.
There's no point in suggesting I wear earplugs because I already do: To block out Mark's snoring. I remind him that I didn't use to wear earplugs before I married him, so that's MY way of compromising -- why can't HE compromise?! The earplugs I have are the strongest ones around that fit my ears and are comfortable. There's also no point in suggesting that I sleep in a different bedroom -- we only have one!
Ok, rant over. Feel free to make suggestions and/or post your own alarm clock etiquette rantings...
~ Jenney
Reg. Frank R.
Mar 29th 2006, 9:08 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Have a continuous headache and offer no services until the situation is rectified ...
Mar 29th 2006, 9:10 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by Ray
offer no services until the situation is rectified ...
Mar 29th 2006, 9:10 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by frrussre
.....Put my foot down (Begged) on that one, alarm clock, now exact.
Mar 29th 2006, 9:12 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by Philgr
Have kids - then you'll never sleep long enough for the alarm to go off anyhow!
My husband is a snooze, i over the years have developed an automatic reflex to kick him everytime the bloody thing goes off, especially at weekends if its my turn to sleep in and the alarm is one of the kids
Mar 29th 2006, 9:26 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by Sarah
Jenney -
Tomorrow morning when the same thing happens again. Turn over and grab his scrotum and slowly twist his ballsack while telling him that unless he stops being an inconsiderate selfish f--kbag, he'll be screaming for his mummy every morning or until you twist them off. Which ever happens first. See which he prefers.
Tomorrow morning when the same thing happens again. Turn over and grab his scrotum and slowly twist his ballsack while telling him that unless he stops being an inconsiderate selfish f--kbag, he'll be screaming for his mummy every morning or until you twist them off. Which ever happens first. See which he prefers.
Reg. Frank R.
Mar 29th 2006, 9:27 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
I'm not a morning person either. Hubby usually wakes me up with a cuppa as he leaves for work.
It's a good thing my wife doesn't come on here! Last thing I need is her trying to convince me to make her a cup of tea in the morning! :scared:
That'd be 4 minutes less that I'd have to sleep!
I might have to devise a "Phase 4" alarm to get out of bed and make the wife a cuppa! Actually, thinking about it, if my wife thought she would get a cup of tea in the morning, she'd happily be Phase 4 herself..
No Snooze, No gentle waking up, I'd be getting kicked out of bed each morning and you KNOW that the dog would be sleeping on my side of the bed when I came back up with the tea!
Mar 29th 2006, 10:30 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Goddam I'm lucky ...Joycee's alarm is set for 7.15 ... she always wakes up at 7am and turns it off before it goes off.. then at 8am she brings my coffee in ..
Its a good life .....
Its a good life .....
Mar 29th 2006, 10:39 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
What, you mean everyone can't wake up naturally without an alarm clock? lol I do love Sarah's suggestion or the other one that really works well - have kids. 
lol I do love Sarah's suggestion or the other one that really works well - have kids.
Mar 29th 2006, 10:40 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by Ray
Goddam I'm lucky ...Joycee's alarm is set for 7.15 ... she always wakes up at 7am and turns it off before it goes off.. then at 8am she brings my coffee in ..
Its a good life .....
Its a good life .....
Mar 29th 2006, 10:43 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
Just like our house. Hubby wakes before 6, no alarm needed. Quietly gets out of bed, showers, gets dressed, goes downstairs, has breakfast, then wakes me with a cuppa on the way out to work. I get up when I'm ready, do whatever I want during the day, then have dinner waiting in the microwave when he gets home.
Mar 29th 2006, 10:54 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
Originally Posted by AmerLisa
You sad, sad girl. I'm so sorry your life is so horribly rotten. It would be almost perfect, except you have to make him dinner - what other horrible things does the beast have you do?
Mar 29th 2006, 11:23 am
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Re: Alarm Clock Etiquette
move his alarm clock to the other side of the bedroom, that way he has to get up to switch it off...
