Every night at exactly 12:00am the alarm on my watch goes off. beepbeepbeep! beepbeepbeep! beepbeepbeep!
I didn’t set it.
I don’t know how to change it.
It’s been doing this for the last three months.
And it’ll probably KEEP doing it until the watch dies, is lost, or otherwise ends its reign upon my arm.
In a weird way I sort of like it. beepbeepbeep! it announces, it’s midnight!
If I’m not in bed yet (which is far too often the case), I think wow, it’s midnight! I need to get to bed!
And if I AM in bed already, I give a little chuckle of satisfaction. ha! I went to bed before midnight! I’m very very responsible, I am. Very responsible INDEED.
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September 15, 2007 at 10:08 am
I have this crazy feeling, that as a child, you had tons of conversations with voices in your head. Maybe even arguments.
I totally get it.
My watch does the same thing, exact at 10:30AM. I can’t change it either.
September 15, 2007 at 10:22 am
My response to that? That there are some seriously sadistic watch designers roaming this crazy world of ours.
September 15, 2007 at 10:28 am
For a while, my meditation chime would start ringing all on it’s own. It was weird!
September 15, 2007 at 11:47 am
that would drive me flippin crazy. thanks for the note. I appreciate it!
September 15, 2007 at 12:04 pm
I love those little things that drive one crazy at first but after a while become familiar – like markings to guide you through your day, or night as the case may be.
September 15, 2007 at 5:19 pm
That would make me crazy if I was already asleep…
September 15, 2007 at 5:22 pm
My grandparents had a cuckoo clock that had the same effect on me.
September 15, 2007 at 5:23 pm
I’m with kimi. That would drive me totally bonkers. But secretly, I would also be amazingly impressed with myself if I could be in bed before the beeping…
September 15, 2007 at 5:42 pm
every once in a while my watch starts beeping at every hour. just a little beep, but at every hour. i know i must press something but what it is i do not know. some how i wind up turning it off as well.
September 15, 2007 at 5:46 pm
My grandfather used to put his alarm clock in the refrigerator… I have this strange feeling that he was a little off his rocker, but, hey it’s a thought! :P
September 15, 2007 at 6:45 pm
That would drive me nuts! Well, because lately I have been in bed by 9:00 so I would be three hours into my sleep (pregnancy makes me do it!)
September 15, 2007 at 7:48 pm
You are a sick, sick woman. I have one of those alarm clocks. It is called a baby.
:-)
September 16, 2007 at 4:07 am
Midnight? Shoot, 10 is late for me!
September 16, 2007 at 6:30 pm
If I stayed up til midnight, I would be beyond useless the next day. And I’m pretty sure that after 2 days of that alarm I would have run over that watch with my car to make it stop. But that’s just me. :)
September 16, 2007 at 6:55 pm
okay…this is weird…i used to have a watch, and the alarm set itself to go off…wait for it…at midnight! and i could never get it to stop until the battery died!
first the sistah-hood of chin hair, and now this? i do believe it was destiny for us to cyber-meet….;-)
September 16, 2007 at 7:50 pm
This is exactly why I no longer own a watch
September 16, 2007 at 8:19 pm
How funny! It was great to explore your site tonight! I am with Jonathan, I no longer wear those crazy watches (however, I do have about 4 or 5 in my jewelry boxes with dead batteries)! Thanks for visiting my site!
September 16, 2007 at 11:29 pm
My ipod does that!! I bought it used, so I am not sure if the previous owner set it that way or what, but it is very annoying!
September 17, 2007 at 1:08 am
I left my alarm clock out in our tralier after the last camping trip and so I’ve been using my husband’s annoying clock since, and I can’t even set it for the time I want when he’s at work, so I just leave it that way.
There, do you feel more normal now?
I am right there with ya!
September 17, 2007 at 6:29 am
I got to bed about 9ish every night….If I had a watch that did that I would have to smash it to bits with a hammer. Seriously.
September 17, 2007 at 7:52 am
I can never keep up with my watch, let alone the voices in my head.
September 17, 2007 at 9:01 am
Our stopwatch does this. It usually goes off in the still of the night too. My husband and I are too lazy to figure out how to change it so I just hide it and still can faintly hear it.
September 17, 2007 at 12:57 pm
I probably would have smashed that watch by now.
But, that’s just me.
September 17, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Ha! Sounds like a job for…Super Hubby! My sweetheart loves dealing with that kind of crap; makes him feel needed or something :)
September 18, 2007 at 12:46 am
It’s nice that you find it useful even if it can’t be adjusted.
September 18, 2007 at 6:45 pm
If it goes off every 12am, I’m pretty sure that watch won’t stay in my hand.