# How much do you mind if someone keeps you awake when you don't have to wake up early?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [July 6, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468 "2014-07-06T09:09:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/1 "2014-07-06T09:09:45Z")
Brought to mind because I just listened to illegal aerial fireworks set off on an early Sunday morning.
Assuming that the majority of those woken up don’t have to get out of bed at any particular time on Sunday, how much would such a thing annoy you, compared to experiencing it when you DO have to get up at a particular time?
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### Author:  [@gracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gracer)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/2 "2014-07-06T09:50:12Z")
Being woken up or kept awake doesn’t really bother me much. I like lying bed and snoozing. Sound in general doesn’t really bother me. But my SO is bothered by it. People behind us have been renovating for months now, and they start at something like 6.30AM, and it really bothers him every morning.
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### Author:  [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/3 "2014-07-06T11:00:06Z")
It probably wouldn’t bother me. I’m a light sleeper, so I’m used to being woken up. More importantly: being tired & in bed is just _lovely_. If I’m half-awake to enjoy it, so much the better.
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### Author:  [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/4 "2014-07-06T11:30:48Z")
I’ve got a young baby, so I don’t remember what sleeping in feels like.
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### Author:  [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/5 "2014-07-06T11:46:59Z")
> [@gracer](#):
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> Being woken up or kept awake doesn’t really bother me much. I like lying bed and snoozing. Sound in general doesn’t really bother me. But my SO is bothered by it. People behind us have been renovating for months now, and they start at something like 6.30AM, and it really bothers him every morning.
SO = Security Officer?
Shouldn’t he be awake anyway?
Maybe he just thinks that keeping the construction workers quite is part of his job as a security officer; he is trying to protect your sleep.
One of my SOs was a bit over zealous about different aspects of his duties, you should sit him down for a talk.
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### Author:  [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/6 "2014-07-06T11:55:54Z")
I don’t like really loud noises at any time of the day. If they are distant _pop pop pops_, that’s fine. But if it sounds like “Boyz in the Hood” in my backyard, I’m going to be pissed off.
I don’t like screwing up my sleep schedule too much. On the weekends I tend to stay up later and wake up later. But still, I try to be reasonable because I don’t want to throw my circadian rhythms off for the entire week. So if the firecrackers are going off at 12:00, I’m probably just getting into bed, so no biggie. But if it’s 3:00 AM, the whole time my mind is going to be counting how many hours of sleep I’m going to have to make up so that I’m not sleep-deprived come Monday. And I won’t be so nonchalant about that.
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/7 "2014-07-06T12:12:16Z")
At the risk of being whooshed, but…
SO = Significant Other. I.e., spouse or live-in boyfriend or girlfriend.
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### Author:  [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/8 "2014-07-06T12:14:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#):
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> At the risk of being whooshed, but…
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> SO = Significant Other. I.e., spouse or live-in boyfriend or girlfriend.
Security Officer makes more sense…
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/9 "2014-07-06T16:24:01Z")
No it doesn’t.
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### Author:  [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/10 "2014-07-06T18:42:51Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> No it doesn’t.
Trust me, security officer makes more sense.
I figured it out from the contextual clues.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/11 "2014-07-06T21:14:34Z")
You figured it out wrong. You’re new here, right?
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### Author:  [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/12 "2014-07-06T21:44:27Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> You figured it out wrong. You’re new here, right?
I think it is security officer, or they accidentally omitted the word husband/wife and put the word “is” inadvertently before the uppercase “so”.
If it were the latter, they used uppercase letters to emphasize how upset they were.
People call their security officers SOs all the time, but I’ve never heard “significant other” being referred to as SO.
We’ll have to wait for gracer, but I’m pretty sure it’s security officer.
> [@gracer](#):
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> Being woken up or kept awake doesn’t really bother me much. I like lying bed and snoozing. Sound in general doesn’t really bother me. But my SO is bothered by it. People behind us have been renovating for months now, and they start at something like 6.30AM, and it really bothers him every morning.
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### Author:  [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/13 "2014-07-06T21:53:24Z")
> [@Mangetout](#):
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> You figured it out wrong. You’re new here, right?
New to the Internet, I’d wager. (Alternately, not new at all, perhaps.)
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/14 "2014-07-06T22:02:28Z")
> [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](#):
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> People call their security officers SOs all the time, but I’ve never heard “significant other” being referred to as SO.
Let me google that for you:
[http://lmgtfy.com/?q="significant+other"+site%3Aboards.straightdope.com](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22significant+other%22+site%3Aboards.straightdope.com)
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### Author:  [@Carol\_Vorderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carol_Vorderman)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/15 "2014-07-06T22:03:53Z")
Usually, unless it is very exceptional circumstances, I mind very much so! :mad:
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### Author:  [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/16 "2014-07-06T22:36:42Z")
> [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](#):
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> Trust me, security officer makes more sense.
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> I figured it out from the contextual clues.
> [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](#):
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> I think it is security officer, or they accidentally omitted the word husband/wife and put the word “is” inadvertently before the uppercase “so”.
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> If it were the latter, they used uppercase letters to emphasize how upset they were.
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> People call their security officers SOs all the time, but I’ve never heard “significant other” being referred to as SO.
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> We’ll have to wait for gracer, but I’m pretty sure it’s security officer.
Too stupid to be real, too unfunny to be a joke.
That said, I’m pretty sure \*\*AA \*\*is having a laugh. On the off chance he’s not: I guarantee that you’re wrong, **AA** , and apologize for using the word “stupid” just now.
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### Author:  [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/17 "2014-07-06T23:28:35Z")
Hate it.
We have neighbors with a pool, and in the summer, we like to keep our window open and air off if it isn’t too hot. And they can be using the pool at one in the morning having a wonderful time. I like to sleep, and I tend to go to sleep fairly early - then get up fairly early. That is how my sleep cycle is set. If they keep me up until 1:00, I miss the “falling asleep part” don’t sleep well all night, then am still up when my body clock says “get up.”
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### Author:  [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2014, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/18 "2014-07-06T23:54:49Z")
I’m not much of a sleeper-inner. And my work schedule is capricious. So while it’s more annoying to be kept awake if I was anticipating getting up early, it’s still annoying if I don’t have to get up early.
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### Author:  [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2014, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/19 "2014-07-07T00:18:26Z")
It makes me want to throttle people. I have problems sleeping through the night as it is, and have a bitch of a time falling asleep again if awakened after more than a couple of hours of sleep.
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### Author:  [@Absinthe\_Anecdote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absinthe_Anecdote)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2014, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-mind-if-someone-keeps-you-awake-when-you-dont-have-to-wake-up-early/692468/20 "2014-07-07T00:48:33Z")
> [@VarlosZ](#):
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> Too stupid to be real, too unfunny to be a joke.
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> That said, I’m pretty sure \*\*AA \*\*is having a laugh. On the off chance he’s not: I guarantee that you’re wrong, **AA** , and apologize for using the word “stupid” just now.
No worries, I’m sticking with an uppercase “so” to denote emphasis, but I think security officer is entirely plausible.
Even mangeytout’s google tended to back me up that people don’t walk around saying the initials SO to refer to a life partner.
However, SO is much more a common form of address for security officers.
Plus, the fact that there was construction going on is what leads me to believe it was a security officer that was getting upset.
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