As some of you may know, I reside on an aircraft carrier. What you may not know is that I share a berthing compartment with 114 other chiefs, 50 percent of which are on holiday leave this week (I had the two weeks preceeding Christmas).
At 0500 this morning, the first alarm clock went off. After five minutes, I dragged myself from my cold, lonely rack, tracked down the ringing and turned off the clock. On my way back to my rack, the second went off.
Followed shortly thereafter by the third, fourth, fifth … you get the picture.
Living aboard ship is bad enough without having to deal with inconsiderate louts.
I’ve half a mind to bust up the clocks if it happens again.
I’ve got three alarm clocks (one of which has two individual alarms) which consistently fail to wake me. Do you want to come stay at my place, ChiefScott.
Nen, that’s a great idea! ChiefScott and I could team up and beat you into a wretched puddle of goo while strangling you with the cords of your Hell On Earth brand alarm clocks! Woo Hoo!
I feel your pain, ChiefScott, for I share a flat with the man for whom the electric chair was specifically designed.
Chief! Long time, no see! Glad to hear from you, even if you’re cranky and sleep starved.
Don’t smash the clocks: too obvious. You have the assembled demented minds of your fellow Dopers to hatch a truly insidious, evil revenge.
My suggestion would be buying a bunch of soft-bristle tooth brushes. It’d mean a lot of bed-making, but if a clock goes off, strip back the covers and snip, very finely, snip some of the bristles between the sheets. Re-make bunk.
The bristles are almost invisible, and they’re lethally itchy. The inconsiderate louts will lose sleep, trust me.
I fucking hate the noise alarm clocks make!! And I always seem to wake up and turn the thing off in my sleep without actually waking up. So they don’t always work for me…
BTW ChiefScott, check your Ft Lauderdale Dopefest thread and keep us updated…
Chief, just set them all randomly ahead or behind one half hour. Anyone who doesn’t check their clock when they get back will have the pleasure of showing up early or late for their duty.
And, yeah, that was pretty d@mn inconsiderate of the b@stards!
What amazes me is that it happened in the CHIEFS compartment. These guys have all been around awhile, been on leave once or twice, been on board when OTHER guys went on leave.
In the junior enlisted compartments, I could understand. Some of those guys haven’t been anywhere without their Mommies before.
But the CHIEFS?!?
