"Ugh. Why am I so tired?" I says to myself.
I hit snooze.
I cannot even open my eyes.
The alarm goes off again.
I hit the snooze button. It was almost 5:30 a.m.
I listen for footsteps in the hall.
Nothing.
I glance at the clock again, and realize that my daughter isn't up and we need to leave in 10 minutes.
I leaned over and changed my alarm for 45 minutes later.
She will have to miss early morning seminary because I'm not going to wake her up.
I just might have malaria.
I heard a mosquito in my room. He might have landed on me, and filled me up with disease during the night.
I am soooo tired.
The alarm goes off at 6:15 a.m.
"Carrot, that says 10 after 10."
(Oh, just play along. It takes too much time for me to go take a picture of my clock, and I've got better things to do. Like...oh...never mind.)
It's a "moonbeam" clock, so first it starts flashing in my face for five minutes.
If that fails, the alarm goes off.
Where were we?
Oh yes, the alarm goes off because I've slept through the flashes.
(I hope I can do that when I go through menopause.)
I trudge across the hall into her room.
Me: Hey, it's 6:15.
Her: 6:15?
Me: Yeah, 6:15.
Her: (Raising her head, looking at her alarm) 6:15?
Me: Yes, 6:15...
(We go back and forth like this for about 5 minutes. I keep thinking, "What part aren't you understanding?", but am too tired to voice it.)
Then I hear a voice from the other room...
"
Me: Oh, I guess it's 12:15, go back to sleep.
The moral of the story?
Always check your alarm clock before you go to bed.
You may have a trick clock that unplugs itself when you make your bed, and plugs itself back in when you are getting into bed.
Oh yes, I have a trick clock.
Occasionally, we appear at festivals and such.
It's a big money maker.
You should get one.
P.S. When a clock is hungry, does it go back four seconds?
