Living with a
roommate with a very
different schedule than mine, one aspect I found interesting was the
confusion (or
sheer idiocy) of people just waking from sleep. Each morning, one of our
alarm clocks will go off earlier than the other one. Despite the fact that my roommate's alarm is set on
buzzer and mine is set on
radio, we still have many difficulties. When his alarm goes off, I find myself smacking the hell out of my own alarm clock, silently cursing the fact that it won't
leave me alone. The same thing will happen when my alarm goes off, when I see my roommate
fiddling blindly with his own alarm clock.
And the
chaos that entails the ringing of the phone! One day, the phone started ringing,
startling us both into
semi-consciousness. Not realizing what's happening, we both
expended what
energy we had at
demolishing our alarm clocks, while the person on the line
patiently wondered why there was no answer. After realizing through the pain in our hands that the alarm clocks were not the
culprits and that the
phone was, I reached for the phone. I happen to have a
lamp on my desk near the phone, so that went
flying as I reached for the phone. Of course, it was a
wrong number.