"My alarm didn't go off"
I'm normally up and ready to leave my house for work every morning by 7:00, but not today. I woke up at 6:55. My problem is that I hit snooze too many times. My alarm clock will only snooze in 10 minute increments, for up to an hour, then it turns off.
While I'm annoyed at this functionality (that if I hit snooze 6 times, that's all I get), it is not the alarm clocks fault. Granted, this was probably some engineers cruel joke of "how to mess with the consumer", but whatever. In the end, it is my responsibility to get up when the alarm goes off.
This leads me to another session of what really grinds my gears: "I was late because my alarm didn't go off".
This is hands-down one of the most commonly used excuses for late. If I am late, I will not use this excuse. If you are one of those people who uses this as an explanatory of your being late, keep the following in mind:
Using a SWAG (super wild ass guess), a good 60-70% of people that are late in the morning will use "my alarm didn't go off" as an excuse. If 60-70% of people that use this excuse were actually telling the truth, that means that next up to Ford SUVs, this would be the highest defect rate for any technology on the market today.
Hm, how often do you hear about alarm clock recalls? I never have. You probably never have either.
There are billions of alarm clocks used in the world today. Probably less than .00005% (again a SWAG) are defective. That means 99.00095% of alarms work just fine and the millions of people who are late that use this excuse are flat out lying about why they are late.
Come on people. Try taking some responsibility for yourself. You were late because you were a lazy ass. Just like me this morning.
While I'm annoyed at this functionality (that if I hit snooze 6 times, that's all I get), it is not the alarm clocks fault. Granted, this was probably some engineers cruel joke of "how to mess with the consumer", but whatever. In the end, it is my responsibility to get up when the alarm goes off.
This leads me to another session of what really grinds my gears: "I was late because my alarm didn't go off".
This is hands-down one of the most commonly used excuses for late. If I am late, I will not use this excuse. If you are one of those people who uses this as an explanatory of your being late, keep the following in mind:
Using a SWAG (super wild ass guess), a good 60-70% of people that are late in the morning will use "my alarm didn't go off" as an excuse. If 60-70% of people that use this excuse were actually telling the truth, that means that next up to Ford SUVs, this would be the highest defect rate for any technology on the market today.
Hm, how often do you hear about alarm clock recalls? I never have. You probably never have either.
There are billions of alarm clocks used in the world today. Probably less than .00005% (again a SWAG) are defective. That means 99.00095% of alarms work just fine and the millions of people who are late that use this excuse are flat out lying about why they are late.
Come on people. Try taking some responsibility for yourself. You were late because you were a lazy ass. Just like me this morning.
Labels: food for thought, idiots, jackassery
And don’t forget your carpool buddy, who you sent a text message to, as he was pulling into your driveway, telling him you were going to be late. Jackass!!!
Posted by
MGD |
4/16/2007 01:49:00 PM
In all fairness, I sent it 10-15 minutes prior to your normal arrival time. I left the door unlocked so you could come in and chill while I finished getting ready, but you "couldn't wait".
Oh, and I still managed to leave within 3 minutes of the time we normally leave my house. So you're impatience probably made you later than you would have been if you had just waited.
You should now call yourself the Cranky Jackass.
Posted by
Rooster |
4/16/2007 02:13:00 PM
The cat gives me evil eyes, so I couldn’t wait in the same room. I think he wants to kill me.
Posted by
MGD |
4/18/2007 12:41:00 PM
Ya I asked a pet psychic about that and she said you tried to molest my cat.
Why I carpool with you still, I have no idea.
Posted by
Rooster |
4/18/2007 12:44:00 PM