# Thanks for not having a fucking clock **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693 "2006-06-07T02:29:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/41 "2006-06-08T13:39:41Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] You don’t. I’ve seen my fair share of hotel and motel rooms in recent years, and I don’t recall one that didn’t have a standard-issue digital clock-radio. [/QUOTE] You don’t? I’ve been to plenty that have no clocks at all. Except for one place. A clock in every single room. And every last one of them broken. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/42 "2006-06-08T13:40:54Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Why don’t you reset them if it bugs you? [/QUOTE] Trust me, I’d like to. But resetting someone else’s clocks seems a little invasive. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/43 "2006-06-08T14:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] It used to bug me that hotel rooms didn’t have clocks. It seemed like it would simpler for the hotel to buy a bunch of cheapo digital alarm clocks and bolt them to the nightstands than have to worry about giving people wake-up calls. [/QUOTE] Where is this true? I have never stayed in a hotel or motel anywhere in the world that doesn’t have an el cheapo clock radio alarm. They aren’t even bolted down. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/44 "2006-06-08T14:07:16Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Trust me, I’d like to. But resetting someone else’s clocks seems a little invasive. [/QUOTE] I don’t know how your girlfriend is but if it was me I wouldn’t have set them out of sheer laziness and would be quite grateful if you took the time to do it! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/45 "2006-06-08T14:20:47Z")
[QUOTE=don’t ask] Where is this true? I have never stayed in a hotel or motel anywhere in the world that doesn’t have an el cheapo clock radio alarm. They aren’t even bolted down. [/QUOTE] That’s the problem, then the guest who had the room _right before_ **tdn** ,steals all the damn clocks. 'scuse me, the _fucking_ clocks. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/46 "2006-06-08T18:36:27Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] Where does one get a fucking clock? I’ve had clocks with hour and minute hands, digital clocks, alarm clocks, clock-radios with the wake-to-music function, but I’ve never had a fucking clock. Bet it’s a popular item. [/QUOTE] You get a special one with two doors. At the hour, a little naked Swiss man comes out the right, and a little naked Swiss woman comes out the left, and they meet in the middle, and … ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/47 "2006-06-08T19:08:00Z")
Dong! dong! dong! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/48 "2006-06-08T22:22:58Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Dong! dong! dong! [/QUOTE] And then, the yodeling. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/49 "2006-06-09T03:34:38Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Trust me, I’d like to. But resetting someone else’s clocks seems a little invasive. [/QUOTE] “Honey, do you mind if I reset your clocks to the right time?” ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/50 "2006-06-09T07:32:44Z")
Most McDonald’s have them at the end of the counter on the empty wall opposite the drive thru. Far right end of the registers, in other words (Usually.). ---
**Author:** ![Will\_Repair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a698b9/32.png) [@Will\_Repair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Will_Repair)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/51 "2006-06-09T14:53:18Z")
[QUOTE=Malienation] Ask a random customer every 10 minutes or so what time it is? [/QUOTE] [hijack]I pit people who ask me the time. Want to know what time it is? It’s time to buy (or wear) your watch![/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693/52 "2006-06-09T15:00:27Z")
[QUOTE=BMalion] That’s the problem, then the guest who had the room _right before_ **tdn** ,steals all the damn clocks. [/QUOTE] But as I said, the clocks are not missing, they are broken. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thanks-for-not-having-a-fucking-clock/359693.md?page=2)