Once I flew to Asia from South Africa, Hong Kong to be exact. Stupid me, I forgot to change my watch. hong Kong is about 7 hours ahead of South Africa. NOrmally I get up at around 6:30 in the morning. But the first day in Hong kong, I got up at 1:30 PM, which sucks cause I missed my 9 am meeting.

Last year I was bringing one of my friends to SigEp's formal as a date for one of GPBoy's brothers, since he had no game and knew no girls. I had to drive to Madison (about an hour away) to pick her up, then drive back to Platteville, where she was going to sleep (she had Relay for Life the night before) and then I was going to go to Dubuque with one of the other Gamma Phis to get our hair/nails/etc done.

I had a nightmare that week that I was going to sleep through my alarm and miss picking her up and ruin Lee's senior banquet. I had three alarm clocks set! My cell phone goes off at 6 a.m. I turn it off. My Palm goes off at 6:15. I turn it off. I'm supposed to hear my real alarm go off at 6:30, and it never did...I woke up at 7:30, when I was supposed to be IN MADISON at 8. I have never showered and driven so fast in my life.

We ended up only being able to get our hair done, but we did get the joy of running into Lee and his family (who never liked me) in the mall in DBQ while we waited for our hair appointments, while I was looking quite charming in sweats and a very very tired face.

I have another alarm clock story relating to Daylight Savings Time, but it is not board appropriate.

I admit it. I signed up all the guys i didn't like in another fraternity up for wake up calls at 4AM during finals week, repeating every 4 minutes for 4 hours.

-Rudey
--I really liked the number 4

Sophomore year, my roommate and I were sleeping on a Sunday morning... and we were woken up by our next door neighbors' (in the dorm) alarm clock. It was set so that the radio would come on... well, my roommate's bed was next to the wall of their room so it bothered here the most so she got up and knocked on their door. There was no answer and she kept knocking... so she wrote a message on their dry erase board saying that it was rude and to please turn off their alarm the next time. Well, later that night, our door was a little open and we heard our neighbors come back and they were like, look at this. They apparently were away for the weekend and that's why they didn't turn their alarm off... then they got mad because my roommate had left that message on their door. Haha... and next semester they both went Greek too.

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This summer, I woke up and realized that the power had gone off in the middle of the night. I raced to get ready and drove the 45 minutes to school. I grabbed my book bag and raced to class. I was 5-7 minutes late, and I was HORRIFIED to see that not ONE of my students had waited for me. I left a note on my classroom door that I was in my office, and that no student had waited. I called my mom to comfort me, "Mom, I was late, just a few minutes and NOT ONE of my students waited for me!" My mom replied, "Late for what, dear? Your class does start for another hour!" I had left home at 4:45 am.....
Good grief!
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My alarm clock amuses me more than it does others. My alarm clock (through necessity) is loud enough to wake the dead. It is important to note that I am a heavy sleeper and sometimes not even ice water would wake me up. I have the unique ability to shut of my alarm clock (placed ACROSS the room) while still sleeping. This has caused me to be late for countless classes and days student teaching. I also am capable of hitting snooze (again in my sleep) for hours upon end . . . not so humourous to roomates but pretty darn amusing to me when they tell me about it later. I'm seriously considering the possiblity that I may have sleep apnea like my father . . .

~Emily

Last year, we were bored so we decided to design a prank for a brother that slept on his room loft (instead of in the cold airs). We collected a bunch of alarm clocks, set them up in different time, and randomly hid them all over his room.

Then the next day, I met the crankiest man in the universe, with his puffy eyes, LOL :D I wonder why ... ;)

Emily, you could get a bed-shaker alarm. They are made for the hearing impaired. A hotel where I worked had them available for guests, so I'm not sure where you could get one or how much they are.

I have a Bose cd player/alarm clock thing and it gets increasingly louder as it goes off. Well, I have it set it for the loudest volume possible so there is just no possible way I can sleep through it. Lately though I've been forgetting to turn it off when I go to sleep at the boy's house and today I got a note from our house manager asking me to please remember to turn it off when I go to shack. Very embarassing!! :o

Somewhat related... but back in my days when I was defending freedom in the U.S. Air Farce as A1C AlphaSigOU the base I was stationed at was pretty close to the front lines of the Cold War, and we almost always had regular 'Salty Nation' basewide alerts.

Almost always around 4:00 in the morning the 'Giant Voice' speakers throughout the base began playing the William Tell Overture (aka the 'Lone Ranger' theme) in between pauses where a voice would repeat "BASE RECALL, BASE RECALL... ALL PERSONNEL REPORT TO YOUR DUTY SECTIONS IMMEDIATELY!" Grab your chem warfare gear and head on down to the chow hall... after a while we got tired of the alarm and took our time getting to our duty section, which royally p*ssed off the powers that be.

One time there was one guy in another dorm who played a prank and played the recall tune at full blast on his barracks blaster stereo... how he wasn't lynched I don't know.

To this day I can't listen to the William Tell Overture without remembering that! ;)

My mom has an alarm clock that sounds like birds when it goes off. One morning she got up before her alarm and got in the shower. She claims she thought "what a wonderful day, the birds are singing" and some other snow-white crap. Then she realized it was her alarm. I still tease her about that one.

i just lived a stupid alarm clock story last night. i am up right now cause i had to wake up at 4:15 a.m. i wake up thinking that i woke up before the alarm, so i turn them ( i have two) off. i am halfway out the bed when i look at the clock and it is 3 a.m.
but i also had dreams last night that i was waking up at 1 and 2 a.m. thinking it was time to get up. so maybe that incident when i woke up at 3 a.m. was a dream too. i dont know!! i am so confused!!....and tired!:( :confused:

Lately, I have had all these dreams about being in church. DH and I have talked about finding a new church in this area, but have done nothing further. (We are believers, but not real church-goers). I thought the guilt was getting to me. I mentioned it to DH and he said he'd been having the same dreams.

After about two weeks, I finally figure out that his alarm was softly playing an evangelical Christian station. We would hear the loud beep-beep-beep and DH would hit snooze. When he hit snooze, the radio would take over. We would go back to sleep and dream we were in church.:rolleyes:

Does it count as going to church if you're there in your dreams?;)

i was going to start a new thread about sleep apnea when i read this thread- and it is EXACTLY waht i do- its a chronic problem and its made me countlessly late for so many classes- i have to schedule classes for later- or i know i barelly make them- i have to tell my teachers that if i'm not there- its b/c i couldn't wake up- its relaly embarrassing- it makes it hard on roommates at school b/c i hit snooze so much and i snore quite loudly... i am looking into sleep apnea- i want to go to a sleep specialist when i get back into the states- i have all the classic symptoms- but i'm glad to see that i'm not alone:p

It's funny I should run into this thread today. My stupid cell alarm went off this morning and I jumped and hit my head on the wall adjacent to my bed. Yeah, I need a tylonal or two
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