# What's your rooster? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205 "2014-06-20T14:17:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/61 "2014-06-21T11:46:39Z")
Batting first and playing first base . . . ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/62 "2014-06-21T15:10:35Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Batting first and playing first base . . . Umm…what? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/63 "2014-06-21T15:57:12Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I pretty much just wake up whenever I want to. The alarm is set, but at a late hour that I really just don’t want to sleep past because if so then there goes the day, so I almost never sleep long enough to be roused by it. > [@bobot](#): > > Siam Sam, that’s an interesting one. The “You Have Fucked Up” alarm. By the time you hear this, you have fucked up. Ha-ha. I like it! Usually it’s set for about 10am, because I like to have time for coffee, read a little, do a little Board, then be out and about in the early afternoon, but I almost always get up by 9am anyway. If I’ve not come home until 3 or 4am, then maybe I’ll set the alarm for 11-ish, but I still can’t seem to sleep that late in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/64 "2014-06-21T20:29:12Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Umm…what? Rooster/roster. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/65 "2014-06-21T20:37:05Z")
The alarm on my clock-radio wakes me up on work days. The rest of the time it’s 16 pounds of cat nudging me/stepping on me/meowing in my face if he’s not fed by 6:15 am. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2014, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/66 "2014-06-21T20:49:20Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Rooster/roster. Sigh. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/67 "2014-06-22T15:45:48Z")
I dunno about these threads sometimes. I mean, there it is, right in the subject line – the OP is asking me about my cock. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/68 "2014-06-22T16:51:34Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > I dunno about these threads sometimes. I mean, there it is, right in the subject line – the OP is asking me about my cock. Well, if that’s what wakes you up each morning… ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/69 "2014-06-22T19:28:58Z")
Alarm clock that turns on playing 99.1 FM in Houston. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/70 "2014-06-22T20:35:46Z")
[One of these](http://www.amazon.com/Emerson-Dual-Alarm-SmartSet-Display/dp/B000VZDYGG/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1403469187&sr=8-3&keywords=emerson+smartset+dual+alarm) set for the local oldies station if the signal hasn’t drifted. ---
**Author:** ![slumtrimpet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@slumtrimpet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slumtrimpet)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/71 "2014-06-23T00:44:52Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Unfortunately, it is an actual rooster. The bastards start crowing around 3 am. This. ^ Actually, to be honest, it’s my husband bitching about the roo. I don’t hear the rooster, but I do hear hubby snarling. ☹ He (the roo, not the husband) is going to go live somewhere else very soon. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/72 "2014-06-23T01:10:34Z")
Snoring. The leading cause of divorce. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/73 "2014-06-23T01:12:08Z")
Clock radio set to a local radio station. I change the time a lot, since I rotate starting hours each month, and sometimes change which bus I ride in. Bonus points for hitting the commercial block, which is guaranteed to get me out of bed. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2014, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/74 "2014-06-23T01:34:35Z")
Clock radio tuned to 105.1 MMM goes off at 6am weekdays, but I’m usually already awake:( ---
**Author:** ![bartleby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bartleby/32/10491_2.png) [@bartleby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bartleby)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/75 "2014-06-24T20:12:52Z")
Clock radio set to the local Spanish Christian station for some really strange reason… (I don’t speak Spanish.) ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/76 "2014-06-24T21:36:16Z")
Alarm clock weekdays, otherwise 9:30 AM on weekends. I just pop awake at 0930. I can also mentally set an alarm in my head but I haven’t done that in a while. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/77 "2014-06-24T21:53:48Z")
My rooster is an asshole robin that starts singing around 4:15AM. ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/78 "2014-06-25T07:26:33Z")
BA012 from Singapore into Heathrow at 0505. Engine 2 looked a little oily this morning, and the front landing tire hasn’t got much left in it. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/79 "2014-06-25T11:04:38Z")
Little chirpy birds start trilling in the trees outside my window around 5 am and wake me up–which doesn’t make me happy, since I don’t have to get up until quarter `til 6. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205/80 "2014-06-25T14:22:31Z")
When at home - a station on the clock radio (wife’s pick) When traveling - “No rest for the wicked” by Cage the Elephant via cell phone alarm When in Haiti - actual roosters. Starting about 3 AM. Stupid-can’t-tell-time-roosters When all else fails - punch to ribs by wife Why, yes, I am a heavy sleeper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-rooster/691205.md?page=3)