On the nightstand by my bed, I have an alarm clock—sort of looks like the one in the photo but not quite. I’ve had the thing for years.
When I look at it, it doesn’t tell me the time. Why? Because I never reset it.
“Spring forward, fall back” stuff, I never touch the clock. When the electric goes off, I never bother to adjust it. Most of the time when I look at it, I see flashing numbers. Kind of looks pretty in the dark.
When it’s time for me to get up in the morning to go to wherever I need to go, I just get up. I must have some kind of internal clock. I don’t need a beeping noise or a DJ’s voice to get me out of bed.
Do you? Can you get out of bed on your own or do you need an alarm clock? Just asking.
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Larry Gross Online 
My wife is my internal clock!
I have to have an alarm clock and the alarm has to be really, really loud. Otherwise I will sleep righ through it.
When I get up for work at 4:30AM I need 2 alarms, 1 on my alarm clock and 1 on my phone. Without the second I would just turn off the first in my sleep and go back to bed. Ask me after 30 years of doing this and maybe I’ll be like you, but not yet.
I have got to have an alarm and it needs to make that horrible buzzing noice. I wanted to wake up to music and that didn’t work at all. It put me right back to sleep.
I got an alarm on my cell phone that wakes me up. How do I get it to make my coffee?
My alarm clock every morning is Francis my cat. Her internal clock tells her she is hungry and I think you know the rest of the story!
I don’t have a Francis the cat but I have a Joe the dog who needs to be walked every morning. He’s my wake up call.
I also have that “internal clock” which is fine for my work days and not so fine on my off days. I still wake up and lay there not being able to get back to sleep. I guess life ain’t perfect!
Leroy brown. baddest man in the whole dang town 😉
I have cats and dogs. I never have a late morning!!
Super loud music wakes me up from the radio by my nightstand. Otherwise I would be unemployes.
Being selfemployed does have its down side. I don’t make as much money being on my own but on the flipside of that, I answer to on one, especially an alarm clock.
Sometimes I get up ahead of the alarm, sometimes I pretend not to hear it. I look forward to retirement. I only have 40 fucking years to go.
Live in OTR for a week. You will have no problem waking up.
I have a rooster in my bedroom that crows at daybreak.
A plastic click by your bed does not tell you the time. It tells you a perception.