Sunday, June 19, 2011

Evolution of the Alarm Clock

In the early years, man was awaked from the rays of the sun. Then man got married and was awaked by his wife telling him to go hunt so she could make breakfast.
Later down the line, man began domesticating animals and use the cock's crow to rise to.... at midnight, two am, three am, and four am, because rooster crow at all hours of the night.
These were adequate systems to ensure that man was awake at the time that the first ray of sun warmed the earth, but man slowly learned about technology.
A long way after that, man created alarm clocks. Ya know the old fashioned ones with the two bells on top and hammers that slams into them. They were accurate, managable, and efficient... at waking the whole house up because they were so freaken loud.
Now here we are in the 21st century and man has created so many wonderful things. But I'm still tussling over why my alarm clock's beeper sounds like a bomb. I guess through all of man's creative process' we thought, "The best way to get someone out of bed is to make them think that there is a bomb right next to their head... every single freaken morning."

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