Sunday, December 03, 2006

Self Discipline Pt. 2

Here's another one that always gets a rise out of people, since 99% of the U.S. population seems to use them: snooze buttons on alarm clocks. I simply cannot understand their purpose. If a person has to get to work by 7 a.m., and it takes them half and hour to get ready plus an additional 15 minutes of commute time, why in the hell would they not just set their clock for 6:15 and then get up when the damn thing goes off?

My wife drives me nuts with this. "Riiiiing". Hit snooze."Riiiiing". Hit snooze."Riiiiing". Hit snooze. If you have that much extra time, why not just set your clock for later? I once roomed with a dude that had no less than three different alarm clocks all set to different wake times, plus he'd wear out the snooze buttons on all three of them each morning. I wanted to goddamn strangle him. If you have that hard of a time getting up your ass needs to get to bed earlier.

It's just another total lack of self-discipline. It's real easy: You set the clock for whatever time you actually need to get up, then when it goes off you get up you lazy bastard.