Anyone ever have bad luck with alarm clocks?

Kenny · Oct 13, 2003

I just set my two alarms, and I'm thinking about setting up the third one just to be sure. For some reason, I keep having bad luck with setting my alarm clocks.

These things used to happen to me all the time, but not so much anymore.

Volume was all the way down, alarm was accidentally on radio than buzz, forgot to set it, set it to PM than AM, and my cellphone screws on on dates and times as well. Sometimes I wake up and accidentally turn off the alarm and just sleep through the morning.

Now, I leave the alarm a good 5 steps away from me, triple checked, and I set two of the alarms. Sometimes I'm still scared of something going wrong though.

No, I'm not electronically challenged, I think it's just bad luck.

docmanjimmer · Oct 13, 2003

well my worst experience with an alarm clock happened when i was 21, went out and got trashed and had about 3hrs till i had to wake up. In drunken stupor i strapped it to my head to make sure i heard the alarm clock went off i strapped it to my head. needless to say when it went off i nearly gave myself a concussion trying to hit the snooze button to turn it off.

Ryan · Oct 13, 2003

I have a hard time getting up (or at least, not falling back asleep). Most of the time I will turn them off and not even remember doing it.

docmanjimmer · Oct 13, 2003

Originally posted by: docmanjimmer
well my worst experience with an alarm clock happened when i was 21, went out and got trashed and had about 3hrs till i had to wake up. In drunken stupor i strapped it to my head to make sure i heard the alarm clock went off i strapped it to my head. needless to say when it went off i nearly gave myself a concussion trying to hit the snooze button to turn it off.

i cant even type ive been awake for so long......

Aftermath · Oct 13, 2003

My worst experiences were always the "OH $&#@" mornings. That's where my wifes swearing jolts me awake about 5 minutes before I'm supposed to be at work because I forgot to turn the alarm back on for Monday morning.

Spoooon · Oct 13, 2003

I have to have the clock on the other side of the room. Otherwise I just turn the alarm off without ever really waking up. I've missed a few classes because of it.

HiTek21 · Oct 13, 2003

I had this old sony Radio clock and the AM/PM light burned out and I wasn't sure if the alarm was set for AM or PM and i woke up late for a final and I almost failed the class. Luckily I managed to talk my teacher into letting me take it after class.

Thegonagle · Oct 13, 2003

I use two clock radios and a battery powered alarm clock with a loud bell. One clock radio is by my head, and the other is across the room, near the battery powered clock.

Barnaby W. Füi · Oct 13, 2003

I have two alarm clocks in different areas of the room. Often they don't even wake me up for up to an hour. Then I begin the barely-conscious routine of hitting them and falling back asleep, and eventually, hopefully, waking up at a reasonable time. I hate it.

crumpet19 · Oct 13, 2003

I sleep through my alarms... thats why I use 5 of them.

Chaotic42 · Oct 13, 2003

Yes, all the time.

I walk over and turn it off without realizing it. I sleep walk sometimes. I'm thinking about getting a second clock.

Techie333 · Oct 13, 2003

same here........always have to set two.........the other one on the other side of my room so i have to get up and shut it off or just throw random stuff at it...........like a lamp.......that doesn't work out to well some times..........

Aves · Oct 13, 2003

Originally posted by: docmanjimmer
well my worst experience with an alarm clock happened when i was 21, went out and got trashed and had about 3hrs till i had to wake up. In drunken stupor i strapped it to my head to make sure i heard the alarm clock went off i strapped it to my head. needless to say when it went off i nearly gave myself a concussion trying to hit the snooze button to turn it off.

That's hilarious!

EyeMWing · Oct 13, 2003

Heh. Heh. I've never had problems with the alarms per se, except occasionally forgetting which notch I'm supposed to set it on for the alarm and occasionally tossing it into radio mode without tuning any station. But occasionally I can sleep through the fire alarm volume alarm for 30+ minutes. That's why I set it TWO HOURS EARLY. I leave for school at 7AM - and my alarm goes off at 5AM.

Also, it's across the room so I can't just roll over and kill it.

docmanjimmer · Oct 13, 2003

in hindsight i still laugh at myself for my stupidity that morning. I can only wonder how many years of my life i lost by jolting the hell out of myself like that......

whaleskinrug · Oct 13, 2003

my SO can't hear his

Redviffer · Oct 13, 2003

I have an alarm/radio that also has a phone. Problem is that, sometimes when I get a call, and I actually get up to answer it, I sometimes don't put the reciever back on completely. What this does is to lower the sound of the alarm to the point where I can't hear it go off. I guess what I really need to do is just turn off the ringer so I can sleep.

Only problem with that is I work at night, sleep in the day, and there are times when I have to be available to answer the phone: kid's sick at school, wife's car breaks down, etc. I guess I'd rather put up with the occasional telemarketer to at least be available for emergencies.

The fix: get another alarm clock as a backup.

dman · Oct 13, 2003

Yes. I've had those problems. AM/PM light is suck...

Power outage at night w/ backup battery no longer working is a good one to happen on those important days too. :|

Ausm · Oct 13, 2003

I usually go through three alarm clocks a year...they meet there untimely death by being smashed against the wall...

Ausm

blackhawk · Oct 13, 2003

I never use an electric alarm clock, have a good quality(mine is braun) analogue run off a AA battery and set it a little ways away. Simple and always works.

kranky · Oct 13, 2003

Originally posted by: Kenny
Volume was all the way down, alarm was accidentally on radio than buzz, forgot to set it, set it to PM than AM
Sometimes I wake up and accidentally turn off the alarm and just sleep through the morning.

I think it's just bad luck.

I know a lot of PC users who feel like that. Everything is bad luck - viruses, no disk space, broken cup holder...

Derango · Oct 13, 2003

I have my Sony Clie (Palm OS device) act as an alarm. The speaker isn't really loud, but it makes up for that due to annoyance level. It sits in its cradle across the room so I have to get up to turn it off or it'll go off every 30 seconds. And since I paid roughly $300 for it, chucking it around the room or throwing things at it rarely enters my mind

Power outages also aren't a huge problem.

Anyone ever have bad luck with alarm clocks?

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