Do You Check the Alarm After You've Set It?

[minlokwat]

Let's try this again.
Well... Do you??

Every night??

No, I am not an obsessive-compulsive but I nonetheless do check the alarm at least one time after I've set it.

It's set to go off at the same time every morning.

I don't have to do anything more than switch the alarm to the "On" position.

There's even a little indicator telling me that the alarm is set.

BUT...


I set the alarm before I go to bed. I read a bit or work on a crossword puzzle and before I turn the light off.....

I check the alarm one last time.

Every night.


I can't be alone on this one.

[Slainte]

Yes I do. At least once, sometimes twice. You're not alone. I think it may be a touch of OCD.

[dantheman]

Yup, I check the alarm one time. I flick it over to set it, then I press the button thingy to make sure it's the right time, even though I hardly ever change the time...

[dragongirl]

I double check it, then I ask my hubby to check it again.

[FairyChatMom]

The only thing I check is that I turn the clock radio off so it doesn't wake me on the weekend. Then I have to remember to turn it back on Sunday night. but I don't usually check it nightly. I'm lucky I remember to take my meds each evening.

[World Eater]

Triple checker checking in.

Heh a new tongue twister sort of.

[kanicbird]

I check to make sure the volumn is on ( which PO's my wife who is usually sleeping when I check), switch is in the right direction and double check the time.

this is due to some mysterious non-alarms and me mixing up the am/pm dot in the past.

[kevja]

Just because you double check something, it doesn't mean you're obsessive/compulsive.

I work go into work late in the day, so I don't set an alarm on most days. But when I need to set the alarm, I double check it. It seems like common sense. Like double checking to see if the door is locked behind you.

[TPWombat]

Oooh! and do you worry that maybe, the last time you checked it, you accidentally switched it off while checking it???

[Una Persson]

Yes, at least three or four times every night.

[Fionn]

Originally posted by TPWombat
Oooh! and do you worry that maybe, the last time you checked it, you accidentally switched it off while checking it???

I do this. I check the clock a few times before I get into bed, and if I have something important for the morning I might get up and check it again.

[Yossarian]

I check it twice--sometimes thrice, and...

I have a back-up, battery-operated travel alarm clock that I also set (and double check), and...

The bedroom TV is set to turn on automatically (to the Weather Channel, except when The Kid has been watching it, in which case it turns on to Cartoon Network).

All that, plus I usually wake up before the alarm goes off, anyway.

[TheOnlySaneOne]

Yeah, that I do, but that's since the little tab thingy you pull to set it sometimes gets pushed back in.

Stupid little tab thingy.

[AndrewL]

Not only do I check it after setting it, I will often wake up five to ten minutes before it's going to go off convinced I forgot to set it, and have overslept and am late for week.

[lieu]

Heh, funny question but it's true.

Why? Because the first time I set it, it's just a rote motion... without thinking, as I shut down the downstairs.

Then, before I go to bed, I've got to "consciously" shut down the house and that's when I recheck it and actually pay attention to my actions.

Glad to see I'm not alone in this.
Are you sure you checked it tonite?

[LifeOnWry]

My husband's check and re-check routine takes close to five full minutes. One night I leaned over and said "You do realize you've got a weird OCD thing going on with this alarm clock, don't you?"

Now when he goes through the routine, he looks at me sheepishly and says, "Just making sure that little OCD switch doesn't get rusty...."

[El Elvis Rojo]

I have an old wind up clock, that for some reason, when I wind the alarm again after it's been wound completely, sometimes just won't work. So, I have to turn it off, then turn it back on again, and sometimes...wellllll....

But yes, I don't get that much sleep (about three to four hours a day), so I make sure my alarm is working before I go to bed everytime. Otherwise, I'm out like a sack of beans.

[Fern Forest]

Burn me once, shame on you.

Burn me twice, shame on me.

So yes I do. Did. Since I switched from alarm clocks to using my pc there's really no need. It says right there on the screen when it will play "The Fight Song of the Brunnen-G." What's there to check? Plus I can set it weeks or months in advance. Very handy for remembering birthdays and stuff.

[tmwster]

Yep. Check it at least twice, have to make sure I didn't accidently set it for 4PM instead of 4AM.