So…it’s Sunday afternoon. I am amusing myself by playing around on the computer, half-heartedly thinking about trying to find someone to play Dots or Literati or something with. One of my roommates has gone home, another is somewhere with friends, and the other is on what I believe would be called a “dirty weekend.” This girl left her clock radio set to alarm with the radio, instead of a beeping tone, and the alarm went off a few hours ago. It’s on a country music station. Luckily I like country music and it isn’t all that loud–turning the fan on drowns it out effectively.
I could call her to alert her of the situation, but I think she is probably busy and would not appreciate it. It is a trivial thing so I don’t feel the need to alert an RA, but I do find it a bit amusing.
OK, I see 40 hits on this knot in 4 hours and no replies. I wonder why. I’ll bite. 1. what’s an RA that you don’t need to alert? 2. If you like country music, why do you turn on the fan to drown it out? 3. My radio alarms cut off either 1 or 2 hours after they first come on. 4. If you don’t know how to turn it off, try hitting the “snooze” button. That will turn it off for 10 minutes (usually).5. Would you have preferred (it seems) that it came on with the beep tone than the radio? 6. The only sensible statement in your whole post is “It is a trivial thing”. 7. Why did you post it? 8. Are you still high? 8. If the thing is still on against your wishes, pull the plug (that’s the thing at the other end of the wire that may come out of the back of the radio) or remove the batteries. “Fighting ignorance since 1973-It’s Taking Longer Than We Thought” Truly a pearl of wisdom.
The radio isn’t in my room. It’s in the locked bedroom of my roommate next door to me. If I were able to get to the radio to turn it off, I wouldn’t have even bothered to complain about it here. As for turning on the fan to drown it out, even someone who likes a particular kind of music may not want to hear it constantly against their will.
I can’t think why you bothered to reply to a post that you obviously didn’t read thoroughly.
An RA is a resident advisor. Quite common in dormitory situations.
Heh. I don’t have an RA, I have my dad. He has a bizarre clock-radio that doesn’t differentiate between A.M. and P.M. and – I swear this is true – doesn’t have an “alarm off” setting. So, when the alarm goes off at, say, 10 a.m., you hit the “off” button, and it stops…until 10 p.m. Then it goes off again, you hit the button again, rinse and repeat. The only ways to stop the accursed thing are to reset the alarm every few hours, or just unplug it. My dad elects to do neither, resulting in the thing waking me up in the middle of the night at least once a week. It doesn’t help that the noise option he uses is “Crickets”. It’s crickets, all right…six-foot long crickets on crack. It sounds like a combination of nails on a chalkboard and that “weee weee weee” cliche horror movie noise. Not the most fun thing in the world to wake up to.
Of course, it’s better than having it scream “SUUUUURGE!!!” at you, which is what mine does, but we’ll not go there.
Luckily said roommate came home, and I quickly clued her in to the radio problem. She turned the alarm off. It had stopped playing about an hour after it alarmed, fortunately.
I would be very upset at either the Giant Crickets or the Surge alarm. Leaping out of bed yelling kind of upset. Mine merely beeps, although that can be weird, as it will go off in the middle of a dream and confuse the stuffing out of me.
I cannot determine what part of the thread was unread. Please pardon the dissing but it clearly had NEI, as opposed to TMI. The separate locked “roommate’s” room was not a given.
Everyone ponder this-When an alarm sounds, why do we say it goes “off” rather than "on? What should we call the act of terminating the sound? Do we turn it “off”? But it was already “off”, or maybe it was just “going off”! And when it goes “off” what happens when we turn it “off”?
It is a trivial thing so I don’t feel the need to alert an RA, but I do find it a bit amusing.