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
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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, 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, 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
Today, my roommate pressed "snooze" on his alarm 14 times. I counted. FML
Today, my roommate has gone home for the weekend. She forgot to turn her alarm clock off. Her door is locked. 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, 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 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, after months of living with my roommate's horrific snoring, I looked over to see her sleeping quietly. Elated that I might actually get a full night of rest for once, I went to bed. Just as my eyelids began to droop, she started making vile hissing sounds. Yes, hissing. FML
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WCARlover 35
Inconsiderate roomies; responsible for FMLs everywhere
jsni2132 18
a bucket and ice water over the head is an alarm without a snooze button, and that's enjoyment to the person dumping it on the sleeper. have fun, OP
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Comments (65)
barfcannon 24
If you want to go the passive aggressive route (and who doesn't, really?) Next time just blast music after the first alarm goes off to help her make that tough transition from asleep to irate.
snapper89768 7
Get rid of the alarm and let her be late.
DanielleinDC 34
Considering she went to sleep for good, #12, OP's asshole roomie is clearly going to be late--if she shows up at all. I have an alarm for which I hit the snooze once. And then another alarm on my phone as a backup. I'm always up before the backup alarm goes.
sunnyray812 42
Why use an alarm (or in this case several) if you're going to sleep in?
laden_swallow09 35
Hence the FML.
sdroze1389 31
you should calmly walk into her room with a hammer and smash that alarm into oblivion right in front of her. then walk out silently with out addressing the freak out.
olpally 33
Need to go "office space" on her alarm clock and break it into a million pieces. What an idiot roommate.
Terri_Dactal 13
Change the clock time and set it backwards a couple hours and reset the alarm so when she sees the time the first time the alarm goes off, she basically craps herself thinking she's late and rushes to leave. You only wake up once and then get to enjoy the sweet revenge when the room mate is wherever they have to be a few hours early. It takes some dedication, but would be worth the reaction
whaime 10
SHE DIED???
pita1331 7
What is the point of your comment?
j80 2
I got it! I thought the same thing! "She went back to sleep for good."
yerawizardlizzy 27
Perhaps she is/was ill? Personally my depression makes getting out of bed just about the most difficult thing I do all day. If it happens more than once I would urge roomie to get a check-up.
Mailman2121 15
#22: I hit the snooze button about 3 or 4 times each morning. Some people are just too lazy to get up. I think it would be highly prematured to panic about OP's roommate just because of that.
auro7 18
I'm not depressed but I hit the snooze button 3-4 times every morning.
yerawizardlizzy 27
24, 26: I'm not necessarily suggesting anyone who does this is depressed. I'm suggesting roomie MIGHT have some sort of medical issue that could be causing it.
EdenCrystal 21
If the alarm is on their phone you can call them to get it to stop. That is, if your phone is next to you.
hazardmuffin 21
Ugh. I understand your frustration, OP. In my old building, the girl who lived above me used an obscenely loud, vibrating alarm on her phone, which she usually left on the floor of her room, inconveniently located right above my room. It would vibrate through the floor and I could hear it throughout my entire apartment when it went off. She was also a rock of a sleeper and the alarm would go on and off for well over an hour some days. A few times I had to knock on her door because I just couldn't stand it anymore, and her embarrassed roommate would have to go wake her up. Some people...