Rise and shine!
If you're like me, your mornings go something like this...
It's 6:45 AM. Your cell phone begins to vibrate under your pillow. Your $85 designer "dawn clock" is collecting dust on the other side of the room, because its gentle glow and soft nature sounds disturb your sleeping partner. You hurriedly grope around for your phone and make your way to the shower.
By now you know that my partner Jen has ADD. If you share a bed with an ADDer, you're familiar with the daily struggle of getting them out of it. You can't wake them until the last possible minute, for they will groggily argue that they still have more time. When the last minute comes and goes, you stage a blatant demonstration that the rest of the world is up and running. You turn on the morning news. You brew the coffee. You put the dog on the bed. Eventually the slumbering ADDer will reluctantly emerge from the bedroom and growl at you for waking them up.
Friends, I have found the solution to our morning woes. A website called The Uber-Review has compiled the Top 10 Most Annoying Alarm Clocks, including one that runs away, one that floats to the ceiling, and one that looks like a hand grenade. Get one for the ADDer in your life, won't you?
I fear that if I got my ADD spouse one of those alarm clock. One of four things would happen.
1. Wife would sleep through alarm and I would get annoyed and go back to the bedroom to shut off alarm.
2. Wife would successfully shut off alarm be awake for five minutes and go back to alarm free sleep.
3. Wife would seek revenge that I bought annoying alarm and set it for the middle of the night ( when she still is awake) and laugh at me as a stumble around trying to turn off the alarm clock.
4. Wife would successfully shut off annoying alarm by making sure that it never wakes anyone again and go back to alarm free sleep.
Posted by: John MacKenzie | March 16, 2006 at 07:44 PM