The Danger Bomb

For those of you who have trouble waking up in the morning, I present: The Danger Bomb Alarm Clock.

For those of you who have trouble waking up in the morning, I present: The Danger Bomb Alarm Clock.

Yep, that’s right, this alarm clock makes you connect three wires in the correct sequence before it shuts off. If you fail your mission, it blows up! Well, not really, it just makes a loud “explosion” noise. These days, I use an old-style “clanger” alarm clock in the bathroom which gets me up and out of bed on time, but I’m always open to new, creative methods to get me going in the morning.

I still think a coffee maker with a timer might be a better investment, though 🙂

9 thoughts on “The Danger Bomb”

  1. Never Use One

    I didn’t realize that adults used alarms for wake-up purposes. I thought it was mostly for teenagers and college students. Even recognizing your abnormal sleeping patterns for work purposes, you still need an alarm to wake you up?

    I haven’t used an alarm in years. Prior to falling asleep I simply tell my body, via some indescribable form of internal programming, the number of hours available until wake-up time. Somehow, I always wake up five minutes before required.

    1. Need one…

      …you still need an alarm to wake you up?

      Well, if I don’t mind stumbling into work around 9:00 AM and working until 6:00 PM, I wouldn’t need one 🙂 But since I want to be up by 5 AM, yeah, I need one, and I put it into the bathroom so I have to get out of bed to get it.

      I know part of the reason: because I intentionally limit my sleep. If I go the other way and try to get 8 hours rest in a night, I wake up halfway through and can’t fall asleep for hours on end, or have night terrors or what-have-you. Unfortunately, it’s genetic: both my brother and my mother have similar sleep disorders. So I limit my sleep to less than 6-7 hours per day, and am tired in the morning. Thus the alarm 🙂 But for me, it’s “sleep less, sleep better, less tired during the day”.

      Funny how people are so different, eh? I know some other people with internal clocks, and I envy them 🙂

      —
      Matthew P. Barnson

      1. Same Here…

        I only have one alarm clock, but it sits on the window sill out of arms reach so I have to make an effort to move out of bed to get it.

        I only get about 5 hours of sleep a night (Mon. – Fri). If I went without an alarm clock, There is no way I could get up at 5am for work.

        1. My Alarm Clock

          My alarm clock is one of the cutest ones ever made, with a random-time-to-alarm feature. You kinda know when it’s going to go off, but not exactly.

          However, one of the drawbacks to this alarm clock is in order to turn it off, you have to go make a bottle and feed it to the alarm clock, stopping every so often for burping and such. There is no snooze feature, and it can not be turned off. And let’s not get into changing its batteries….

          However, my wife and I share the alarm clock, so some nights I don’t have to turn it off. 🙂

          My $.02 Weed

          1. If I didn’t…

            If I didn’t set the clangy-type one in the bathroom, I too would have to make use of the default one provided in my household. It usually rings around 7 AM, or whenever it gets light outside, makes the bed shake, and makes the most irritating noises until I get up and pour some cereal.

            —
            Matthew P. Barnson

        2. Nail… head…

          It’s interesting to me that so many of us live a lifestyle of sleep deprivation. If I followed my free-running sleep cycles, I’d go to sleep for the night around 8:00 PM and wake up around 1-3 AM.

          Maybe I should have been a farmer.

          —
          Matthew P. Barnson

      2. 2 in my room.

        2 in my room.

        I used to be a pack-a-day user, but these days I’ve cut back to just one or two in the morning. Multiple alarms are sometimes scary because I’ve been known to wake up to the first one and carefully shut off the next two without being aware of it. When your body is that intent on getting sleep, it will get it.

        Heck, I even set up a logic puzzle for myself when using my mobile phone: I have to type in a code to unlock the phone before I can shut off the alarm. And there are days I have done that and had no idea that I had when I finally woke up 🙂

        —
        Matthew P. Barnson

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