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- Essay Name : 615.txt
- Uploader : louis dixon
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- Language : English
- Subject : Drugs
- Title : snooze
- Grade : 100
- School System : Gateway Community Collage AZ
- Country : usa
- Author Comments : My funny paper
- Teacher Comments : Exellent-Nice touch of humor,too!
- Date : 2/14/96
- Site found at : seach.com
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- It is seven oÆclock in the morning and your ever
- faithful alarm clock shatters your restful slumber into
- early morning chaos. You are running late. Half-dressed and
- clenching a cold Pop-tart in your teeth, you run out your
- front door to your car. Out of the corner of your eye you
- see the next-door neighbor in his front yard. What is this,
- your neighbor stayed home from work to mow his lawn? No, it
- is Saturday and this is the second time this month you
- forgot to turn your alarm clock off on Friday.
- Alarm clocks, specifically Digital Alarm Clocks
- (DACÆs), are the bane of modern civilized society.
- Originally created as a tool, DACÆs seem to have taken on a
- life of their own. To any outside observer it might seem
- that these digital monstrosities delight in the torment of
- their programmer.
- One of the most frustrating features on your DAC is the
- ability, or inability, to set the time. There are 1440
- possible combinations and only two buttons to hit your mark
- with. First you try the fast button, advancing the time to
- within an hour of your mark. Then you try the slow button.
- This button advances so slowly that you learn the true
- meaning of eternity. The DAC lulls you into a false sense of
- security. Frustrated, you try the fast button again, just a
- tap. To your horror you find you have advanced the time
- three and a half hours past your intended mark. Out of
- desperation you try the fast button again, and time speeds
- by so fast you begin to think you are in the chair of H.G.
- WellÆs time machine. You stop after your third time around
- and resign yourself to within 10 minutes of the actual time.
- Even if you set the time correctly and remember to turn
- the alarm on, there is no guarantee that your DAC will wake
- you up. There will be times when you wake up and look over
- at your DAC and it will be innocently blinking. At that
- moment you will come to three very startling conclusions:
- 1. the power went out while you were asleep
- 2. your DAC has sucked the life out of the back-up battery
- you put in last week
- 3. you are late.
- The most disturbing feature of your DAC is the snooze
- button. Most people in the beginning say they will not use
- it or they do not need it. All it takes is one night out on
- the town and the next morning your DAC is there offering you
- the snooze. At first you think you can handle it. You begin
- to use it more and more, until finally you are always
- running late, missing your appointments and neglecting your
- family. Sure, you say you are going to quit. You even put
- the DAC on the other side of the bedroom so you can not
- reach it, but in the end you hit the snooze and crawl back
- into bed.
- The only way out of this downward spiral is to shun all
- DACÆs and to just say no to snooze. This will not be easy
- because DACÆs are everywhere and wherever you find a DAC
- you will find a snooze button. The best way to stop DACÆs
- destructive cycle is to not buy one. Take that money and
- invest it in a Rhode Island Rooster every Sunday and have
- chicken every Friday night.
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