It’s been a month since I posted so I’d say it’s time for a rant. I’ve been traveling a lot lately so the object of my wrath this week is alarm clocks. Most specifically the alarm clocks in hotel rooms, but home use clocks don’t get off easy either.
Alarm clocks have one purpose in life. There’s only one thing they need to do to be considered a success. It’s not to ‘tell the time’. That’s a nice bonus, but the purpose of an alarm clock is to get you up in the morning. This is doubly so for alarm clocks in hotel rooms. If you are sleeping in a hotel it’s likely because you have traveled somewhere to do something, and it’s also likely that you want to do that something at a certain time; hence a clock to wake you up so that you may do that something without being late and getting fired. A device which cannot reliably complete this basic task is simply a failure, and not worth being made or purchased. End.
