I’ve got these new tenants below me. We’ve gotten along well, and we helped them renovate their apartment. We even helped them strip, refinish, and polyurethane their floors.
The wife was shocked and looked at us with disgust when she found out we get out of bed around 3pm everyday.
I pointed out to her that we stay up until about 4-5am, and we work weird shifts, so for us that is normal. She tends to wake us up and still says: “You were asleep?!?” We’re beginning to want to hurt her.
You should get ear plugs, the soft kind.
I live over a restaurant, where they close up and roar out of the parking lot at 2am.
Now I sleep right through it.
This is an oldie, but a goodie. Everyone hates non-morning people, I think. The world is against us. I would prefer to wake up about noon, go to bed around 3 or 4. Is that so wrong?
I thought the title was “I will get up when I want to jerk”, not “I will get up when I want to, jerk”.
Oops! 
Maybe you should try Viagra. It’s a godsend. (Not for me of course, but um, my older friends. That’s it.)
** that’s ok. **
When I first glanced at the subject, I read it as “When I grow up, I want to be a jerk.”
Which sounded like a very interesting topic.
–sublight.
Hey, I’ll vote for that. We need more jerks. Both kinds.
:eek: Sounds like getting up shouldn’t be much of a problem…
Yep, this is not a new subject. Those damned morning people just won’t get it.
Those morning people (some of them, anyway) think that Their Way is God’s Way. And if you aren’t up at the crack of dawn, well, you are evil, lazy, or just need to “readjust” yourself to be “normal” like them. Sometimes it’ll never get through to them. Jerks.
Who do these morning people think work the night shift on those 24 hour hotlines? Who do they think works those 24 hour stores at night? Who do they think works the overnight shift at hospitals, etc? What about policemen that work the night shift? These people have to sleep too - when should they do it?
And, what if (this is the real kicker) some people just want to work later and sleep in? Why can’t they be allowed to do so in peace? And, if it’s (apparently) OK for a morning person to wake up a night person during their sleeping time, why would it not be OK for a night person to, say, wake up a morning person at 3 am? (I’ve been tempted to do that a few times. And say “Hey - I’m up, why aren’t you?!?!”)
I just got the neighbor to understand. Though in her understanding of my position, she still made a value judgement about it. But, she and her man haven’t woke us up in days. How ironic that the other neighbors woke us today by running their lawn mowers at the same FUCKING time.
FWIW i have the same problem and if i had $1 for every time i’ve heard “oh you’re lazy” 
“set your alarmclock” :o 
:eek: :wally
“you dont have discipliine” :eek" “just go to bed!”
“i can do this and i do not know why you can’t”. :wally
so i set my alarm clock and i went to bed, and i got up at 5am to be on time, what happens? i get home and i fall asleep! i do not intend to, shit happens.
and so what if i like to be up nights…i will remeber that and think of you, when you have to go get a child medicine at 3 am, remember you when i help the people at the nursing home, you remember us when the “morning larks” need something in the middle of the night!
I get the same crap. I lived over the summer with my mom, who goes to bed at 9 and gets up around 6 AM. She would make fun of me for sleeping late. I worked at a job where the hours were 3:30-midnight, so I’d be up until 2 or 3 in the morning and get up at 10 or 11. My ex-BF turned it into a value judgment against me that I don’t get up early if I don’t have to, I like to stay up late and sleep late. Sure, I CAN get up early if need be–I managed to make it through 7-1/2 years in the Navy, so I think I proved I’m capable of it–I just don’t LIKE to. Somehow an awful lot of people have the idea that getting up early = virtuous (damn you, Ben Franklin!). Some people are just night owls; deal with it!
Morning people suck.
I work graveyard, and thanks to combination of civic-mindedness and poverty, I commute via bus. I get home around 9:30am. If I can get into bed by 10:30, I’m doing really well. What pisses me off is when someone calls at 11:00am. I turn off the ringer on my phone and turn off the volume on the machine, but it makes a loud clicking noise when the tape starts. It disturbs my delicate sleep process, and it often takes me hours to get back to sleep.
And to add insult to injury, they hang up without leaving the message, leading me to believe that they are telemarketers. Bastards. They are making me a little cranky. Like when people invite to functions I cannot possible attend. My mother is the worst. She calls and invites me to family-type cook-outs she has scheduled for Sunday at 2pm. And she always sound a little hurt when I decline. She doesn’t get thats ‘middle of the night’ for me.