Snooze button rant

[dullard]

I truely think one of life's most annoying (annoying not serious) things has got to be those alarm snooze buttons. I've got three problems with them:

1) People claim they use the snooze button since they are tired. Often they end up wanting to get up at 7 am and so they set their alarm at 6 am to be able to hit the snooze button 6 times. Then they slowly get out of bed and are exhausted the rest of the day. Why not just set the freaking alarm to 7 am and get an extra hour of sleep? I honestly can't understand how getting up even earlier than you want will help your problem of being tired.

2) The snooze button usually gives you 9 minutes. Who can get any meaningful sleep in 9 mintues? Just make it 20 minutes so you have time to get back to sleep if you are truely tired. If I ever need more sleep, I have to reset the alarm 20-30 mintues later so I actually get to sleep - since I cannot use the snooze button (and the effort needed to manually reset the alarm makes it harder to get back to sleep). I suppose some really expensive alarm clocks could let you set the snooze time, but I've yet to see one in use. Who came up with the arbitrary 9 anyways, doesn't 10 seem like a more round number?

3) This is for people with roommates (or siblings, or spouces) who sleep in the same room. If you have to get up earlier than the other person - please please don't use that snooze button. Especially not more than once. I've suffered through this for so many years, and I'd really like to get some sleep instead of hearing that beeping sound every 9 mintues for hours. I don't know how many times I had to complain to my dorm roommates to turn the damn thing off after they have already missed their first class. I've known them to hit the snooze button for over 3 hours. Eventually I just get off and turn the whole thing off for them since it is obvious they are skipping the whole day of class. That is 3 hours less sleep for both the person with the annoying habit, and the innocent roommate. Of course this almost always happens when I have a test that day and really needed the rest.

Why bring this up today? My wife had to get up an hour earlier than normal to get extra dressed up for a presentation and photos today. So she set the alarm a full hour early. 6 snooze buttons later she was still in bed, we both got 1 hour less sleep, and she didn't have time to do her makeup like she wanted. Note: Tuesdays and Thursdays we normally get up 1.5 hours earlier than the other 5 days of the week for her early class, so the alarm was set 2.5 hours earlier than I truely would have wanted it set.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: dullard
I truely think one of life's most annoying (annoying not serious) things has got to be those alarm snooze buttons. I've got three problems with them:

1) People claim they use the snooze button since they are tired. Often they end up wanting to get up at 7 am and so they set their alarm at 6 am to be able to hit the snooze button 6 times. Then they slowly get out of bed and are exhausted the rest of the day. Why not just set the freaking alarm to 7 am and get an extra hour of sleep? I honestly can't understand how getting up even earlier than you want will help your problem of being tired.

that is cheating.

 

[scorp00]

My roommate freshman year was horrible about the snooze button. It pissed me off so much sometimes. He'd set it early enough so he could shower and eat breakfast before class. Most of the time he got to class 15 minutes late smelly and hungry. I turned it off a few times on my own when I had to get up to piss, if he can't get up the first time i don't care if he misses class.

I make sure to set my alarm so late that I barely have time to get up and get to where i'm going, that way i'm not tempted to use snooze.

My alarm is 8 minute snooze, cell phone is 10 minute snooze.

 

[StageLeft]

I was at a place with a girl who would use it for over an hour. Very annoying. Personally since I've discovered them I CANNOT live with them. 9 minutes for me is about 8.5 minutes of sleep. I find that they ease me into the morning quite nicely in fact.

 

[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: scorp00
My roommate freshman year was horrible about the snooze button. It pissed me off so much sometimes. He'd set it early enough so he could shower and eat breakfast before class. Most of the time he got to class 15 minutes late smelly and hungry. I turned it off a few times on my own when I had to get up to piss, if he can't get up the first time i don't care if he misses class.

I make sure to set my alarm so late that I barely have time to get up and get to where i'm going, that way i'm not tempted to use snooze.

My alarm is 8 minute snooze, cell phone is 10 minute snooze.

My roomate did that too. It would go off three or four times, and wake me up three or four times. I hated the fvcking redneck, skank, homophobe, drunk, bigot, dumbass, frat boy b!tch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

 

[bGIveNs33]

I have a friend who came into class looking like hell one day... I asked him what happened. He said he had a paper to write the night before but was to tired to write it so he decided to take a nap first. He set his alarm for 11:00 P.M. so he would wake up a write it. He snoozed through the whole night. That must have been the worst night of sleep ever.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: scorp00
I make sure to set my alarm so late that I barely have time to get up and get to where i'm going, that way i'm not tempted to use snooze.

That is exactly what I do. I get every minute of sleep possible - often so much that I waken up naturally and can lie in bed and relax for 5 mintues before the alarm goes off. But when it does, I jump out of bed immediately, rush through the morning rituals and get to school/work as soon as I can. The adrenaline rush caused by rushing to get things done in time wakes me up better than any coffee ever could.

 

[ScottyB]

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: scorp00
I make sure to set my alarm so late that I barely have time to get up and get to where i'm going, that way i'm not tempted to use snooze.

That is exactly what I do. I get every minute of sleep possible - often so much that I waken up naturally and can lie in bed and relax for 5 mintues before the alarm goes off. But when it does, I jump out of bed immediately, rush through the morning rituals and get to school/work as soon as I can. The adrenaline rush wakes me up better than any coffee ever could.

I always set mine an hour before I had to get up, went to take a shower and etc, then I went back to bed and woke up 10 minutes before I had to leave and then got dressed and ate real fast.

 

[scorp00]

Originally posted by: ScottyB

Originally posted by: dullard

Originally posted by: scorp00
I make sure to set my alarm so late that I barely have time to get up and get to where i'm going, that way i'm not tempted to use snooze.

That is exactly what I do. I get every minute of sleep possible - often so much that I waken up naturally and can lie in bed and relax for 5 mintues before the alarm goes off. But when it does, I jump out of bed immediately, rush through the morning rituals and get to school/work as soon as I can. The adrenaline rush wakes me up better than any coffee ever could.

I always set mine an hour before I had to get up, went to take a shower and etc, then I went back to bed and woke up 10 minutes before I had to leave and then got dressed and ate real fast.

Freshman year I showered, sophomore year I gave that up as the number of attractive females plummeted. I set it 10 minutes before class, jump out of bed and into some clothes and eat pop tarts on the way to class.

 

[NutBucket]

On my snooze if I hit it once I get 9 minutes, twice 18 minutes, and so on. Dangerous thing hence it sits across the room so I have to drag my ass out of bed to turn it off. I find that I just end up falling back asleep even w/ Stern blaring.

 

[acidvoodoo]

i set my alarm for 7:30, but i get up at 7:55. the alarm puts me into 3/4 sleep mode so i can tell when to get up. Then a mile walk to school in the lovely british weather wakes me up completly to arrive at 8:30

snooze buttons are stupid imo. When i use my cell as an alarm, say i set it to 9:30, and when it goes off i decide to sleep in a few hours, i always forget about the snooze thing and it wakes me up again ffs (when i am tired i forget simple things like having to press a button twice )

 

[guyver01]

i place my alarmclock on the other side of the room... by the time i kill myself and bruise every bodypart stumbling out of bed to shut it off, i'm already awake.

 

[Amused]

Snooze alarms should be banned!! (yes, this is the anger talking)

My freakin' GF will hit that damn thing for HOURS!

Yes, I placed the clock on the other side of the room. But that dosen't even phase her.

In fact, I think I'm going to disable the snooze botton on my clock pretty soon here. :|

 

[Rilescat]

tie the snooze button to the trigger of a shotgun. Snooze will only be used once.

 

[CraigRT]

I semi-agree with your rant.
I have tried setting my alarm an hour later, and to no avail.

 

[dabuddha]

just get an alarm clock with 2 alarms. set one for 30 minutes later. thats what i do and it works wonders

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: dabuddha
just get an alarm clock with 2 alarms. set one for 30 minutes later. thats what i do and it works wonders

I actually tried that

the "beeper" doesn't wake me up anymore.
the radio on full blast (ascending volume) is the only thing that brings me out of sleep

 

[Evadman]

I set my alarm for 30 min before I have to be up. Then I set my stereo on full volume, when I have to get up. Everyone is up when I get up

 

[Dedpuhl]

I hit the snooze button at least 2 times. I set my alarm for 5:30am, hit snooze 2 times, get up by 6:00am, and get out the door by 6:40am...

 

[Imported]

Originally posted by: Yield

Originally posted by: dabuddha
just get an alarm clock with 2 alarms. set one for 30 minutes later. thats what i do and it works wonders

I actually tried that

the "beeper" doesn't wake me up anymore.
the radio on full blast (ascending volume) is the only thing that brings me out of sleep

I do that too..

My regular travel alarm clock no longer wakes me up. The only thing that has woken me up is my cell phone, but every other week, I need to change the alarm ringtone or I sleep through it.. I have this ability to just get used to the sound of the alarms and sleep through.

 

[Dudd]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I was at a place with a girl who would use it for over an hour. Very annoying. Personally since I've discovered them I CANNOT live with them. 9 minutes for me is about 8.5 minutes of sleep. I find that they ease me into the morning quite nicely in fact.

I'm with Skoorb. I set my alarm for 6:30, and then snooze my way awake. It's too big a shock to get up right away, so I like to do it in stages.

 

[Supermercado]

I don't understand why people hit snooze. Just get your lazy butt out of bed the first time it goes off. What the heck is so hard about that? Doesn't matter how little time I've been asleep, if I have something to do at 8 am, I set the alarm for 7 and get up at 7, not 7:09, not 7:18, or whatever.

 

[Ns1]

hey f-u snooze button rocks


let's look at 2 scenario's

snooze button doesn't exist, set alarm at 7
alarm goes off, walk across room, throw alarm in trash, fall back asleep, wake up at 10 and jump off a cliff


snooze button exists, set alarm at 6:51
alarm goes off, walk across room hit snooze, take a 9 minute power nap, alarm goes off again at 7, wake up, go take shower and do stuff


i think waking up the first time is the hardest, the 2nd time the alarm goes off it's no big deal, just a reminder to get my lazy ass up

 

[eakers]

i snooze 3 or 4 times a morning.
after the 4th time i just turn it off.

i do the first three in my sleep now so i have to set my alarm for 20minutes eariler then i wanna get up.

i always have the best dreams inbetween the snooze, too bad they are always cut off.

 

[pulse8]

At least your roommate uses the snooze button. Mine will sleep right through his alarm and it'll go off for an hour or so.