The Snooze Button, Girl Scout Cookies, Crack Cocaine: which is more addictive?

In My Humble Opinion
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Snooze Button: This morning I set my alarm for 6:00 a.m. I’ve been trying to get up early and do some writing in the a.m. before leaving the house. I went to bed at a decent hour, had had plenty of sleep, should be bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, right? Wrong. I hit the snooze button (it’s a 9 minute snooze) for something like the next 1.5 hours. “Just 9 more minutes…then I’ll get up.” I do this ALL THE TIME. But I can’t just set the alarm clock for a later hour, because even then I’ll have to snooze at least once or twice.

I am out of control. I might need an intervention. I’d sell my own mother for 9 more minutes (“Just 9 more minutes!”) of sleep.

Girl Scout Cookies: Thin Mints. Samoas. Do-Si-Dos. Watching for the signs of Girl Scouts entering your neighborhood - hoping to god you’ll be home the day that little pusher knocks on your door. Kissing your boss’ ass by ordering boxes from his little angel. Making each sleeve of cookies last as long as possible…“If I eat only one per day, then I’m good for the next…Waaaaaaaahhhhh!”

Crack Cocaine: Chris Rock described this as a substance so addictive that if the only way to ingest it was to shoot a gun and lick it off the bullet as it flew by we’d have junkies shooting their buddies in the head and then crying “Get up! Get up, man, you gotta do me!”

So, place your votes: Which is the most addictive?

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Thin Mints.

Strange, but I just noticed that the boxes have some misinformation: says ‘serving size 4 cookies, servings per container about 15’

Should read ‘serving size two tubes, servings per container 1.’

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Well I don’t like the snooze alarm…mrs beagledave, if left to her own devices, would hit that damn thing over and over.

Never done crack…no interest.

Mrs. beagledave loves Girl Scout cookies…she’s pregnant…do the math :smiley:

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I’d say Thin Mints are a close second to crack. And that’s only because I still eat Thin Mints.

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easily the snooze button.

I have to walk to my alarm clock, and sometimes I don’t remember waking up to shut it off.

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Snooze button hands down (and I’ve worked with crack addicts, and mothers of girl scouts).

Crack addicts can, in fact, overcome their addiction. GSC’s are only available brief spurts of the year, so they’re self containing.

But that snoooze button. damn.

I got so bad at one point, I had, in addition to my snoozer, a digital oven timer, so if I knew, for example that I couldn’t afford an addional 9 whole minutes, I could always talk myself into an additional 45 seconds…

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I hold the world-record in snoozing: eight hours. I once, while in college, set my alarm for 9am on a Saturday morning. I was hoping to do some studying that day. But, I had a late night, so I hit the snooze at 9am, and every seven minutes thereafter…

… until 5pm. :o

My roommate was at first annoyed, then amused, then laughing-so-hard-he-thought-I’d-finally-get-up, then annoyed again, and then finally pissed.

It was great. :smiley:

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Well, I was cured of my snooze-bar addiction. It was annoying the crap out of Mr. Cranky, and I just don’t enjoy starting my morning with an unwashed, grumpy husband giving me the hairy eyeball from his side of the bed.

Even had this not been the case, I managed to give birth to a child who always wakes up 15 minutes before my alarm goes off anyway.

I’m voting for the Girl Scout Cookies. They have treatment programs for Crack.

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Since it was thirty-seven minutes between “Oh SHIT!” and turning on my office light, I’m voting for the snooze button. It’s always free.

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Crackflavouredgirlscoutsthatwakeyouupinthemorning.

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I’m trying to be healthy these days, but the two things I miss most are Nacho Cheese Chalupas and Thin Mints. Instead of fantasizing about sex, I fantasize about [sub]sex[/sub] and then eating some Chalupas and Thin Mints! Yeah! Hell, who needs an orgasm when you can have that soft flaky crust dripping cheese and fire sauce…or those delicate cookies with the perfect blend of chocolate and minty-fresh wafer…

I think it’s obvious I have a food addiction.

Snooze button is no problem - if I have to be up at 7, I set it at 6:52 (8 minute snoozer). I’m usually up by 6:30 anyway (my school/work schedule has made it impossible for me to ever sleep in, and I’m starting to like it.)

Crack - never tried it, never want to. I’d much rather spend my money on chalupas.

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The snooze button. I can avoid Girl Scout cookies-though if they are there, I’m sure to eat them. Never tried crack, so I can’t make the comparison. I cannot keep my hand away from the snooze button. I have 4 alarm clocks, and I’ve been known to hit snooze on all of them, which involves walking around my apartment, then crawling back into bed.

So, with a heavy heart, I must say my name is Lsura, and I am a snoozeaholic.

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Snooze button in a landslide.

Well that and thoughts of killing the guy who decided the sleep to music button should be anywhere freakin’ near the snooze button.

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Snooze button: I have a Bose Waveradio CD player with remote.
The Snooze is ON THE REMOTE!!!
I place it just where my arm will fall in the morning before I go to bed. Then the instant the music starts to slowly increase in volume, I can swing my arm over and tap the top middle button.
I have been so late due to that.
The weird thing is, I love it! I have been known on occasion to set the alarm 20-30 minutes early so I have more snoozetime :slight_smile:

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Gotta admit those thin mints are pretty darn good.

However, the snooze button just flat out has me addicted! Although I think I’m going to get a new alarm clock (thnx for the reminder magdalane [btw, isn’t there a river called the magdalana?]). Ok yes I’m am. It’s now in stone. Err well electrons. I will get a new one! The one I currently have has this ridiculously high pitch, witness:

EEEERR!! EEEEEEERRR!!! EEEEEERRRRRR!! EEEEERRRR!! EEEEERR!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh!

I MUST find a bitter demise for this alarm clock. It’s been a long time since my destruction days. Anyone have any good ideas? :wink:

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You forgot to mention the SDMB.

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Oh, GOD, I’m going to get SO fired if I don’t stop visiting here during the day. Except I’m alone in my office and I just get LONELY!

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Not to be confused with the Mnementh’s Horror Stories [sup]tm[/sup] series. :smiley:
I used to have an alarm clock in the shape of a wedge. The front face was the clock and most buttons. Horribly, the top corner of the wedge, the ENTIRE thing, was the snooze button. This is horrible, of course, because it enabled me to simply reach out and find the clock and hit the top of it, without having to grope for a specific button.

Now, this in itself is terrible enough. But there’s more.

Now, sometimes I have fightin’ dreams. In which I fight, and in real life, my limbs swing awkwardly as my body acts out the battle. And those of you that know me know that I have a propensity to injure myself often, and to cause extreme damage to anything around me.

In times like these, waking me up suddenly is very, very dangerous.

My alarm clock chose a particularly bad time one morning to go off suddenly. At the sound of the alarm, in my rages, I rolled over immediatly, aiming for the source of the sound. I swung as hard as I could. I can swing pretty hard. I struck the snooze button, a little to one side, which caused it to break all attachments to the clock and go flying across the room.

Snooze button gone, I was rarely late anymore. :smiley:

As an addendum, once the snooze button was gone, the only was to turn it off was to grope for the button. Being used to such ease with the snooze, I often woke up grumpy and disoriented, too disoriented in fact to find the small button. So, in my semi-conscious haze, I would pick up the alarm clock and smash it on the wall and floor until it shut up. Since, I’ve gone through many, many clocks…

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When I sleep at my house, I get up the first time my alarm goes off without a second thought. I need to get up. I do it.

When I sleep at my boyfriend’s house, though… He has his alarm set to buzzer (which I can’t stand) and he sets his alarm for about 30 minutes before he actually has to wake up. OH the willpower…

Nobody tries to get me to buy Girl Scout cookies or crack. So I’m left out on those counts.

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I don’t know what’s more addictive, but crack tastes the best (I sprinkle it on my hash browns), the snooze button gets you high if you smoke it (ahhh, melted plastic fumes), and thin mints make a really great packing material. I do a lot of air frieght shipping, you see.