Life with Tony - the alarm
Tony is extremely considerate. So, knowing he was to rise early this morning, he warned me he had set his alarm, but would try to ensure it did not wake me.
Right.
It's the first day of my holidays. At 8am I come to hearing something strange and jangly. it is a mobile alarm using one of those strange 'tunes' that means the person who owns it either can't be bothered to set a real tune, or doesn't know how to. When it comes to Tony, it is the latter.
I ignore it.
My OH eventaully comes to about five minutes later (I may exaggerate a little), swears violently and switches off the phone. I then hear about fifteen (no exaggeration) key presses, with accompanying noise.
"Darling, what are you doing?" I ask.
"Trying to switch off the alarm." he says.
I could ask why he doesn't simply leave the room, with his phone, and do this somewhere else. I don't because that will definitely wake me up. Plus it will antagonise him, because he is doing his best not to wake me.
He lies down again. I have the chance to go to sleep except that I now suspect he has reset the alarm to go off in ten minutes, which means there is no point in going to sleep as I will be woken again.
Alternatively, he has forgotten he is due to take his car in for a service and that is why he set his alarm in the first place. Perhaps he thinks it has gone off of its own accord, as it seems to so many times, malaicious little critter it is. Always waking me up when that was the last thing he wanted. should I remind him he is due in Coleford by nine? If I speak, I will definitely wake up. If he has remembered, it will make him tetchy because he will think I think he can't remember such things. If I sleep and he forgets and misses the appointment, he will be upset for the rest of the day.
Ho hum. Choices, choices.
He suddenly rises and opens a drawer, pulling out clothing and shutting the drawer. perhaps he has remembered why he set the alarm. He leaves the room, forgetting to shut the door, and wanders off into the bathroom, where he does noisy things which disturb me because THE BEDROOM DOOR IS OPEN.
If I get up to close the door, I will be wide awake. If I don't, the noise will wake me.
It is a lost cause. I get up. :p
Right.
It's the first day of my holidays. At 8am I come to hearing something strange and jangly. it is a mobile alarm using one of those strange 'tunes' that means the person who owns it either can't be bothered to set a real tune, or doesn't know how to. When it comes to Tony, it is the latter.
I ignore it.
My OH eventaully comes to about five minutes later (I may exaggerate a little), swears violently and switches off the phone. I then hear about fifteen (no exaggeration) key presses, with accompanying noise.
"Darling, what are you doing?" I ask.
"Trying to switch off the alarm." he says.
I could ask why he doesn't simply leave the room, with his phone, and do this somewhere else. I don't because that will definitely wake me up. Plus it will antagonise him, because he is doing his best not to wake me.
He lies down again. I have the chance to go to sleep except that I now suspect he has reset the alarm to go off in ten minutes, which means there is no point in going to sleep as I will be woken again.
Alternatively, he has forgotten he is due to take his car in for a service and that is why he set his alarm in the first place. Perhaps he thinks it has gone off of its own accord, as it seems to so many times, malaicious little critter it is. Always waking me up when that was the last thing he wanted. should I remind him he is due in Coleford by nine? If I speak, I will definitely wake up. If he has remembered, it will make him tetchy because he will think I think he can't remember such things. If I sleep and he forgets and misses the appointment, he will be upset for the rest of the day.
Ho hum. Choices, choices.
He suddenly rises and opens a drawer, pulling out clothing and shutting the drawer. perhaps he has remembered why he set the alarm. He leaves the room, forgetting to shut the door, and wanders off into the bathroom, where he does noisy things which disturb me because THE BEDROOM DOOR IS OPEN.
If I get up to close the door, I will be wide awake. If I don't, the noise will wake me.
It is a lost cause. I get up. :p