The Morning Alarm

Recently I was on a camp where the teacher merely walked into the room and turned on the light without any warning. Needless to say she made the list. The problem with alarms is not so much the "arggh I have to get up" because that's just an inevitability but the shocking buzz that makes you jump out of your skin or the inane news reader does nothing to lift my morning mood. Yes you can argue there are a number of alternate solutions but for the most part, morning alarms just grind my gears.

Actually the alarm clock was thought to have been invented by Marquis de Sade but it was revealed actually that the honours go to Levi Hutchins a New Hampshire native in 1787. Funnily enough Levi never mass produced his invention he simply desired to wake at the merry hour of 4am every day, much to the ire of his wife, and he invented an alarm clock that did exactly that. There is now a massive industry of alarm clocks including those that force you to get up to find things, or my personal favourite the alarm clock that donates money to an organisation you hate every time you press snooze.