Today, like every day, I woke up at 3 in the morning because my roommate needs "a three hour warning" before his real alarm goes off. His alarm is a constant beeping noise which he always ignores for a good 10 minutes before finally getting up and turning it off. FML
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Today, like every other day, my roommate's alarm began to go off at 7:30am. What time does she have to wake up? 10:00am. Why does she have her alarm go off for two and a half hours? Because last semester she needed it to go off then and she is too lazy to change it. FML
Today, my roommate's extremely loud and obnoxious alarm went off six times, waking me up each time, before she finally gave up on hitting the snooze button and went back to sleep for good. FML
Today, my roommate set her extremely loud alarm clock for 5am and continued to hit the snooze button every ten minutes until 7:30. FML
Today, I woke up to the sound of my roommate's alarm clock going off at 6:00 in the morning. His bedroom door was locked, and he was passed out in his bed from drinking too much. It rang continuously for five and a half hours before it finally ran out of batteries. FML
Today, just like every other day, I was woken up 2 hours earlier than I needed to be, by the alarm belonging to my upstairs neighbors. They won't wake up until their real alarm goes off: me, pounding the walls and yelling in frustration. FML
Today, my smoke alarm started chirping at 3 a.m. I replaced the battery, reset it, and got back into bed. Five minutes later, it chirped again. I searched for the source before realizing it was my roommate's alarm clock. FML
Today, I'm a college student. Just like every other goddamn day, my roommate set about twenty alarms a good two hours before she even needs to get up. She just sleeps through the first hour or so of alarms while I wake up. I've been waking up at 6 a.m., even though my first classes are at 9. FML.
Today, my roommate gets up at 3:30am for work and wakes me up each time. I try not to complain about it, but whenever I come back to the apartment at midnight, she gets mad that I woke her up. I told her that she wakes me up in the morning, but apparently that’s different because she’s going to work. FML
Today, I set 3 alarms so I wouldn't miss an early morning event I was volunteering at. After I slept through the first one, my roommate turned the other two off without waking me up because they were annoying. I missed the event. 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
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OhWhoCares 42
Is your roommate even human? Who the hell decides to voluntarily wake up at 3 AM??
vikingchick 22
Set an even louder alarm for 2:50 am. :)
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OhWhoCares 42
Is your roommate even human? Who the hell decides to voluntarily wake up at 3 AM??
adrian1910 15
Soilders
Duladian 19
32. Voluntary? Yeah, no I'd rather sleep.
BlondePsycho 43
Mutants that need to lay their eggs in the cool morning so their young are able to mature before the morning sun rises and gently lures them out of their tiny gelatinous cocoons. Once hatched the young mutant will go out into the world to purchase highly irritating alarms to annoy roommates and suckle on their endless hatred. They feed on hate.
laden_swallow09 35
Trying too hard, 35.
Isandri 29
@#1 some people have to go to work at 5/6 am, and they commute. When i had some temporary holiday job, i used to wake up at 3.30 to be at work at 5 am, not the greatest situation in world :F
megan_login 6
I do the same thing. not every night, but because it's nice to wake up and realize i still have a couple more hours of sleep.
rylaii 26
@40. Op says it is a warning alarm that goes off three hours before the alarm he needs to get up for. So he probably doesn't need to be anywhere until after 7.
teentee401 37
Patrick Star, that's who
JayGatsby 25
I actually have my alarm a couple hours early, because I am a heavy sleeper, and I always sleep through the first couple of alarms. I keep them hours apart because I like knowing that I have time to sleep left and I can't keep them minutes apart because even if I wake up, I tell myself that 5 minutes can't be so bad and I end up missing my classes. I can understand OP's roommate, except OP's roommate is still in the wrong because I live with other people so I just close my door, lower the volume on my alarm, then keep it directly under my ear so only I will wake up. FYL OP
silmisstar 23
I actually have 6 alarms set to wake me up in the morning! Starting at 5am and going every 30 minutes. Don't know why I started doing that but I can't wake up without them now!
iseebearbears 27
40-That's not voluntarily. You NEEDED to wake up early to get to work. OP's roommate does not.
Gaernem 17
Well I wouldn't say voluntary, maybe this isn't as such a normal occurrence as OP claims and their roommate has just been working a lot in the past couple of weeks. I used to have a job where I needed to be at work and clocked in by 3am. I would set about six alarms starting at 11pm or 12am.
im_cb 11
i have alarms going off for three hours before my actual alarm :p
dsw144 18
sorry to hear that OP, sounds annoying. you should talk to them about it, or just turn it off yourself.
Mkm1997 20
Turn off his alarm
Pesticides 19
or swap the batteries with a dead set so the roommate can't blame op.
vikingchick 22
Set an even louder alarm for 2:50 am. :)
_parth 20
Calm down satan.
MrSassypants 34
And the alarm should play "How You Like Me Now?" by The Heavy.
UhHuhHoney 20
Lol @ #17
xleanne_aLly 23
The first time I slept over at my friends house. We had school the next day. She said "Just a heads up, my alarms pretty loud. I'm a heavy sleeper." Really did NOT prepare me. She had her iPod, hooked up to two big speakers. Both at maximum volume. With the sound of a continuous AIR HORN at 5 am!!! She had this right by her head by the way! I was sleeping three rooms down from her. I woke up and literally fell off the couch. Had to slap my friend up. Her alarm from hell was STILL going off and it didn't wake her up yet.
False_Stupidity 42
@59 I'd say your friend likely has severe hearing damage which has no doubt been getting worse over time.
Likian5 26
Yeahhhhh, I'd probably try to find a new roommate...I have a warning alarm before my actual alarm as well, but it's only set for 10 minutes. 3 hours is a bit insane...
coming back in the future 30
That would beep very annoying. I am alarmed at this behaviour. That would not be a minute annoyance. I think ive done all.
blackdoritos 7
I've heard that a bucket of water is a great alarm.
badluckalex 23
Or an airhorn
quickit 24
He needs to clock out and head to bed a little earlier because what he's doing would tick me off.
Clawsified 6
Puns. Ugh.
annalily5 28
I think I might have killed my roommate by now if I were you.
cheeeksss 29
I love my sleep, to the point where that would drive me insane and I would shut his alarm off while he was sleeping and throw it out the window or bash it with a hammer. But that's me. You should talk to him about it or find a more suitable roommate if possible.