Worst. Morning. Ever.

[Stretch]

Epic morning of fail.

5:30 - alarm goes off

5:39 - snooze goes off

7:07 - woke up, swore, and stubbed toe hard in rush to get up

7:15 - discover there's no hot water

7:30 - start car, annoyed at having to adjust the seat since I let someone borrow car yesterday

7:31 - pull out of driveway

7:32 - park on curb, freak out about weird noise engine is making, resolve never again to loan car out to Asian drivers

7:33 - debate continue driving to work, decide to go on for about 30 seconds and then loop back to pull into driveway

7:34 - car stops making funny noise as soon as put into park

7:35 - go to work and hope car doesn't die

7:49 - realize that I forgot my security badge; whatever, I'll get a temp one

7:51 - realize that I forgot my laptop

8:44 - pull into parking lot, severely annoyed

8:45 - get out of car in time to see minivan parking on opposite side hit my bumper

9:06 - realize that I forgot to save the changes I made to my presentation yesterday before turning off laptop

9:18 - complain bitterly

I have a fairly important meeting in 40 minutes that I meant to come in early to prep for, but now I'm in an extraordinarily bad mood and can't focus. Super.

[Beguiler]

My condolences. Really. Ugh.

[Kitsun]

Snooze buttons are the devil. I put my alarm clock across the room so I have to get up and walk over to it to shut it off.

[Trouble]

Snooze buttons are the devil. I put my alarm clock across the room so I have to get up and walk over to it to shut it off.

That doesn't work for me anymore, unfortunately ; I'll get up, walk across the room, and then still go back to sleep.

Good luck Stretch.

[Drew2]

Snooze buttons are the devil. I put my alarm clock across the room so I have to get up and walk over to it to shut it off.

I've been doing this since early high school when I learned I won't get up otherwise, lolz.

Sorry Vinh. I feel your pain. I'm dating a bartender while I'm working my regular 9-6 job which means I've had a lot of waking up late lately. Bartenders don't get off work until after 2am so my sleep schedule is fuuuckked up.

[Asile]

Snooze buttons are the devil. I put my alarm clock across the room so I have to get up and walk over to it to shut it off.

I did this during high school, too...and since my room was a WRECK, I really had to wake up before balancing my way across or I'd break my neck.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/9171/ <-- best invention EVAR. If my husband would just use it instead of relying on me to get him up most mornings. The alarm itself is so loud it tends to make me jump when I hear it at the other end of the house, and the propeller has gotten a little lost a time or two.

All that said.. Yeah, crappy start to the day you're having. Hope the presentation goes well regardless!

[TheRunt]

Watch this when you get a chance. Funny as hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLyD5htJr4s

[Asha]

Brilliant!
I can now hop off to work completely happy. Thanks.

[Izzy]

Snooze buttons are the devil. I put my alarm clock across the room so I have to get up and walk over to it to shut it off.

My entire getting up plan depends on a specific number of snoozes. I even set the first alarm so that it goes off 3 snoozes (generally 27 minutes) before I want to get up. I love me some snoozes.

I've also never had trouble getting up after the correct number of snoozes.

[DCSL]

My alarm clock has no snooze button. That's what usually helps me. If I still manage to get back to sleep after crossing the room to turn off its torturous midi renditions of classical music, I have three dogs that will insist I get up and take care of them. The big one doesn't even have to touch me to wake me up. She just sits on my side of the bed and breathes hot and humid dog-air on my face until I open my eyes to glare at her.

I'm having mysterious car noises as well. I hope yours are easier and less expensive to fix than I suspect mine will be. No one likes to hear the words "transmission trouble".

[Trouble]

My entire getting up plan depends on a specific number of snoozes. I even set the first alarm so that it goes off 3 snoozes (generally 27 minutes) before I want to get up. I love me some snoozes.

I've also never had trouble getting up after the correct number of snoozes.
I do this too. I set my alarm at 7 to be up by 7:30. Although I do sometimes have trouble actually becoming vertical even after the third snooze.

I'm gonna check out one of those annoying alarm clocks from ThinkGeek.com, thanks for the tip Asile.

[Gan]

I did this during high school, too...and since my room was a WRECK, I really had to wake up before balancing my way across or I'd break my neck.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/lights/9171/ <-- best invention EVAR. If my husband would just use it instead of relying on me to get him up most mornings. The alarm itself is so loud it tends to make me jump when I hear it at the other end of the house, and the propeller has gotten a little lost a time or two.

All that said.. Yeah, crappy start to the day you're having. Hope the presentation goes well regardless!

That alarm clock rocks.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

The insanely loud alarm clocks pretty much insure I'm in a shit mood in the mornings. Our alarm clock plays the radio at an extremely high volume. I'm a light sleeper so it just shoots me right out of bed thinking the world has exploded, but my boyfriend is a very heavy sleeper. The worst is that he sleeps THROUGH the alarm and can do so for like 20 minutes unless I roll over and violently shake and scream at him to "shut off that god damn motherfucking alarm before I throw it out the fucking window". It's also grand when one of our cats is curled up on me when the thing goes off. Nothing like kitty claws digging into your flesh first thing in the morning!

And he wonders why I never make him breakfast except on Sundays. -_-

[Danical]

I believe alcohol was invented for days like this . . . just saying.

I'LL MEET YOU FOR A SCOTCH IN KANSAS WHEN YOU ARRIVE AT YOUR NEW EMPLOYER!

[Izzy]

I enjoy waking up to Korn-Wake Up.

It gets the message across pretty clearly.

[Danical]

ha!

I use Rage's Wake Up.

[The Ponzzz]

I enjoy waking up to Korn-Wake Up.

It gets the message across pretty clearly.

That's fucking awesome!

[Korn fan]

[Sean of the Thread]

I put my alarm across the room as well so I make sure to get up.

BUT THAT FUCKER DIDN'T GO OFF TODAY. It was set. It was on. It was set at 5am. I was 3 hours late to work. I was fucking pissed.

OH and evidently a co worker complained about me smelling like alcohol. I think it must be my body wash or listerine or some shit. I had like two bloody mary's the night prior. The Loss Prevention guy is a friend of mine and he had to the investigation and told me I was fine and it was bullshit.

Someone is out to get me. I work 150% when everyone else is dragging ass at like 75%. They keep telling me to chill out and slow down but my work notch goes to 11 on the dial. Someone doesn't like looking bad and people that have been there for 2 years don't like that I'm already above them.

Such fucking bullshit.

[Izzy]

That's fucking awesome!

[Korn fan]

I know! I've actually been on a Disturbed stint for the alarm lately (Disturbed = best band ever, especially live)...but it's not quite the same for waking up.

Sadly, Korn sucked ass when I saw them live. It's possible that by the time they got on stage, I was already in a bad mindset because the previous 3 bands had raped my ears with a terrible cacophony of eardrum shenanigans. Still, they might just be one of those bands that should stay in the studio.

[Sean of the Thread]

Maybe it was your bad acid.

[Izzy]

Maybe it was your bad acid.

Negative on the acid.

[Warriorbird]

I use the Hot Chip remix of The Rolling Stones' 'I'm Free'. Works good.

[Sean]

I just use my phone as an alarm but generally I wake up when my dog stomps on my stomach at around 7-8 letting me know he has to go out then I go back to bed but only 1/2 sleep until my alarm goes off. I'm never on time for work.

[Gelston]

Cell phone alarm ftw. I set it two hours early and snooze my way to wake up time.

[Snapp]

I use a regular alarm clock and my cell phone. Sometimes I still manage to oversleep once in a while.. might have to check out that thinkgeek alarm clock.

[Stanley Burrell]

Put your alarm clock far enough away from the pile of hay that you need to physically stand up and walk over to it to shout Vietnamese obscenities.

Make a little moat out of broken glass and mouse traps around your alarm clock.

[Stretch]

12:15 - waitress spills iced tea on my slacks / white dress shirt. To mollify me, they send free paella (wtf?)

5:15 - get first evar speeding ticket for going 75 in a 60

Please god let this day be over.

[Stanley Burrell]

You got free paella? YOU ASS.

[TheEschaton]

I used to be one of those types which woke up on the first call of the alarm clock. I was like, completely upright exactly 5.4 seconds after the thing went off.

Now, I do the setting the alarm clock two hours before I need to be up, and snooze-barring it til then. The problem is, sometimes I fall back into my old habit, and then, shit, I'm up two hours early....

I'm pretty sure that alarm clock would get me kicked out of my apartment building, btw. Definitely "voted off the island" worthy. My roommate would drop kick me.

-TheE-

[Daniel]

I just use my phone as an alarm but generally I wake up when my dog stomps on my stomach at around 7-8 letting me know he has to go out then I go back to bed but only 1/2 sleep until my alarm goes off. I'm never on time for work.

This is a surprise? You're black.

[Lord Orbstar]

Stanley, wtf is that little video of kids crying and that dude in a dinosaur mask. I laughed my ass off...but what is it!?

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

You made it to the second interview with me, that's a plus right?

[Daniel]

You and Vinh are going to work together?

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Maybe, yeah.

[Daniel]

Nice.

Give my man some nice benefits.

[J.P]

Woke up and drove to work only to find out I didn't have to work today. On the drive back home to get more snoozes car start making funny noises. Long story short I need 500 dollar to fix my car. Oh and the back left tired exploded on the way back home, thank god the tires were still under warranty.

[Stanley Burrell]

Stanley, wtf is that little video of kids crying and that dude in a dinosaur mask. I laughed my ass off...but what is it!?

Raptor Jesus Camp. It's based off some shock and horror documentary that unveils the mysterious secret that non-secular religion actually can make people do silly things.

And then we got Late Cretaceous in this brick Internet bitch.

[Ashlander]

I'm one of the weird ones. I always manage to wake up a good 5-10 minutes before my alarm goes off, gonna try not setting it to see what happens one of these days.

[diethx]

I used to be like that when I worked the office grind from 9-5. I'd often wake up a few minutes before my alarm because my body's clock was just set, even after being out until morning hours the night before. I remember during that big black out in the northeast in the summer of '03, my alarms were obviously not working, and I woke up right on time for work. It was a waste since the power in the offices were still out, but still, hehe.

Now I can't wake up for my life. I need that flying alarm clock, heh. I hit the snooze for 2 hours because I can't drag my ass out of bed. Luckily I often set the alarm hours early for class, in the dumb hope i'll actually be able to get up when it first goes off, lol.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I'm one of the weird ones. I always manage to wake up a good 5-10 minutes before my alarm goes off, gonna try not setting it to see what happens one of these days.

I haven't used an alarm in years. It's actually really nice if you ask me, I never have to worry about setting one, or getting up late. Since I know if I don't get up it's on me, I get up I guess. I do have an alarm clock though, one of those ones that projects on the ceiling. I just never set it.

[Allereli]

Sadly, Korn sucked ass when I saw them live. It's possible that by the time they got on stage, I was already in a bad mindset because the previous 3 bands had raped my ears with a terrible cacophony of eardrum shenanigans. Still, they might just be one of those bands that should stay in the studio.

Aww, that's sad to hear. I saw them in '97 and they were great.

To add to the shittiness: I'm over in Penang, Malaysia. I was visiting my family in KL and Jakarta and came over here for the last 3 days of my trip. First of all it's a Muslim country during Ramadan, the hotel is practically empty, just a few Europeans and Asians here and there. I went to the botanical gardens earlier, and all the actual nice garden areas were locked up, so I saw trees, a couple of turtles and a few bugs.

The rainy season also started early so my plans to sit and do nothing at the pool have been foiled. I also feel a cold coming on, which will make my ~20 flying time Sunday-Monday very shitty.

Everywhere I go the shower also breaks.

Good stuff: daily hour massages for <$20, and my picture collection of weird Asian signs. It's almost Ecstatic Hour at the bar!

[Hulkein]

I used to be one of those types which woke up on the first call of the alarm clock. I was like, completely upright exactly 5.4 seconds after the thing went off.

Now, I do the setting the alarm clock two hours before I need to be up, and snooze-barring it til then. The problem is, sometimes I fall back into my old habit, and then, shit, I'm up two hours early....

I'm pretty sure that alarm clock would get me kicked out of my apartment building, btw. Definitely "voted off the island" worthy. My roommate would drop kick me.

-TheE-

That's horrible if you're trying to get as much quality sleep as possible. 10 minutes of sleep at a time for two hours isn't nearly as good as an extra hour and half or so of REM sleep.