Time: 6:00 am.
Scene: Dark.
Bear's alarm clock: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP....
Me (first counting to ten): Bear! Turn off your alarm.
Clock: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...
Me: Bear! BEAR!
Clock: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...
Daddy Shortbread: BEAR!!
Bear (sleepily): I know.
Clock: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...
Me & Daddy Shortbread (staring at each other incredulously): BEAR!!!
Bear (now sleepy AND cranky, but clearly not moving): I. KNOW.
Clock: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP...
Bug (still in bed, does not need to get up for another half an hour): Bear! FOR GOD'S SAKE would you turn off your stupid alarm?! YOU ARE WAKING ME UP!
Clock: BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BE-.
3 comments:
My roommate Oren had the amazing ability to sleep right through one of those loud alarm clocks. After 10 minutes I'd get fed up and go into his room to find him sound asleep with the alarm clock on the night stand about a foot from his ear doing that incessant screaching. And no, he's not hard of hearing.
With every news story about Bear, I invision Daddy Shortbread :-) It is true that history repeats itself.Grandma
Sometimes the old equipment and tools are truly better. Take away the beep alam and issue Bear an old wind up alam clock purchased at a yard sale. When it runs down, it quits. Grandpa
Grandpa might be onto something with the old-fashioned jangly alarm...
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