I can’t ever just sleep in without interruption because the cats and dog will always wake me up. I feed the cats, let the dog out, wait for the dog to come back in, then go back to sleep for 3-4 hours on the weekends. Ah, sweet, sweet bliss!
We had an intercom system. It had a page button on it, in case you couldn’t hear the intercom. It let out a horrifying, piercing sqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee when you pressed it.
My evil parents used to press that button and hold until I was out of bed. I still get shivers whenever I hear that tone.
Well I guess I’ll be the 1% in this poll who gives the opposite answer. When I am woken up by my alarm on a weekend morning, there is great wailing and cursing and gnashing of teeth. The point of sleeping late is sleeping late, not waking up and then going back to sleep (if you can). The only thing I hate more is when my mother (who has some trouble correctly computing time zone differences) calls me up at some ungodly hour on Saturday morning and disturbs my day of rest. I have taken to unplugging the phone on Friday night just to avoid this situation.
Knowing that you didn’t have to get up is poor consolation for actually being woken up. It’s like taking some really nasty medicine and then finding out that you really didn’t need it. The damage is already done.
Thank you SpoilerVirgin and all. I’m shocked, I thought it was definitely going to go the other way.
I can’t even remember what my alarm sounds like. I haven’t had to use it in five years. My body goes to sleep when it wants and wakes up when it wants, and I have no reasons to want it to do otherwise. And hey, where do you guys get alarm clocks with snooze alarms that work? I swear the only ones I’ve seen are set for 12- or 24- hour intervals. If you want it to wake you up in an hour, you must be awake enough to set it for an hour and then try to get back to sleep. At that point, you’re already awake, so what’s the use?