Today, I was staying in my family friend's house in France. The church bells ring every hour, which I thought was cute. Until 8 this morning where they rang 24 times. FML
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Today, I'm on holiday, but my alarm clock isn't. It rang at 6 o'clock. FML
Today, I was at church, when my mom's phone went off during the sermon. As if that wasn't humiliating enough for me, her ring tone was set to the Bed Intruder song. FML
Today, my car alarm went off during a funeral. Three times. FML
Today, my neighbors left for their nine month excursion, and armed their security system. One of the features is a loud series of three beeps every three seconds, 24 hours a day. I can hear it, clear as a bell, throughout my entire house. FML
Today, I attended a funeral. During the minute of silence, my phone went off. My ringtone is "It's good to be alive". FML
Today, I'm dead on my feet. My flatmate's alarm went off for 20 minutes at 5 a.m., which I heard and he didn't. A car alarm went off outside my window for half an hour at 7 a.m. My building fire alarm went off twice, at 8 and 8:10 a.m. Just let me sleep. FML
Today, I forgot my headphones at home. When I got to work I found out that today was also the day the band next door had decided to practice their only song for 8 hours. FML
Today, I got woken up by Hallelujah blasting outside my apartment windows for 30 minutes straight. FML
Today at 10:00 pm, someone rang my doorbell 4 times, while I was sleeping. I thought it was an emergency and I opened the door to my neighbor who just want to ask if I had a blackout at noon. FML
Today, I started my spring break. My college is letting the students stay in the dorms for break, so I figured that staying here would mean getting more sleep than going home. Not so much. The fire alarm has been going off every 20 mins since 7:30am because they're "fixing" it. FML
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WhatsYOURname6 25
I had the same problem in Italy.. On holy days they play songs every 15 mins.. Our house was directly beside the church too. Feel your pain OP.
steveykinz0967 16
Wait so if they rang every hour why didn't the ring at 2am bother you?
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Comments (59)
daydreamer244 13
That's what loud music and headphones are for. :)
MrConcise 35
During sleep?
daydreamer244 13
Yep. listening to chill music puts me right to sleep and keeps out any unwanted noise.
TanzWolf 26
That's unhealthy, sleeping with earbuds in let alone loudly. Have fun being deaf at 30.
Godsofdracos 15
Headphones in while sleeping won't make you go deaf. The reason they say not to sleep with them in is due to the fact they may get pushed into your ear canal, or the cord could somehow get around your throat and asphyxiate you. Loud volume on the other hand can and most certainly will make you go deaf at certain decibels.
lexos 16
The church in our village does it 2 times for 15 minutes at 8:00 and 9:00 on Sunday morning now that's annoying
whale_itsme 7
Hahaha, I'm used to it, but it sure isn't nice when you live close to a church... Or when you're camping or something
Mr_Ziza 10
Be Lucky lt was not at midnight
worldclassrager 41
So what then do they count?
CJB3228 17
The amount of times someone rings the bells of Awakening
raphanne_fml 33
Same here. I grew up in a little village in France and my house is right beside the church. I'm just used to it now and I don't pay attention to it anymore.
vikky538 29
that should also ring some ideas to buy ear plugs...
flee2321 10
It's probably because I'm do tired do don't be mean, but why 24 times at 8? Is it not telling the time maybe? Sorry. Sleepy and confused. Lol.
MrBoredomioo 18
You should come live near a church in the States. There, they'll play 20 minutes of loud Christian rock at 8 AM!
opaopa13 1
My wife's parents live in France, and near their home is a church which always chimes their bells once at quarter-past, twice at half-past, three times at quarter-until and four times followed by the number of the hour on the hour. Then, 5 minutes later, they chime the number of the hour again. All night long. Now imagine you can't wear earplugs because you need to be able to hear your infant child's cries. Enjoy that for two weeks.