Here’s a tip. Whenever you stay in a hotel/motel, make sure to check the alarm clock before you go to bed. Especially if you DON’T want to wake up at a certain time in the morning. Usually hotels/motels have alarm clocks that are loud enough to wake the dead, so you definitely don’t want it going off at say…6am, when you were hoping to sleep until 8 or 9.
And if you’re a really kind and thoughtful person, you’ll turn the alarm to the “off” position when you check out.
If you’re a bastard, you’ll turn the alarm back on again to whatever time you woke up.
And if you’re a real sonnofa bitch, you’ll take the time to set the clock EVEN EARLIER than you—or any normal person—would ever get up. That way the person sleeping in your room next will get a little SURPISE! at say…4:45am.
And if you’re a lucky sonnofa bitch, no one will even be in your room when the alarm goes off to swear loudly, throw the thing across the room, then drift angrily back to sleep. But someone will be in the adjacent rooms, maybe even on the floor below. So that at 4am, all the people around your room will be blasted from sleep and confused about where the noise is coming from. Maybe they’ll be too tired to move, but the noise will be too loud to sleep with, even with a big pillow over their heads. And maybe they’ll have young children, maybe say…a four-year-old, who desperately needs sleep if he’s going to make it through the long day ahead of him. And maybe that four-year-old will get “freaked out” by the noise, which he will describe as making him “more and more awake every minute, until my eyes are opening and opening and my voice is getting louder and louder.” And maybe there will be no chance of getting that four-year-old back to sleep again once you’ve called down to the front desk to report the noise, because it takes them absolutely forever to find the room with the blasting alarm in it. Maybe that will happen. If you’re a really lucky sonnofa bitch.
