Has your alarm clock ever gone off when it wasn't supposed to?

No, but I have slept through alarms

Yes, I have accidentally set it forward and a few times I have accidently carried it across the room in my sleep!

Not that I know of. One time it came back on again because I hit snooze instead of off. I didn't know it was on again and it woke someone else up, who acted like I had made no attempt to turn it off. But she was a moron anyway, so that was only to be expected.

Yes, about once a month it seems. Not always while i'm asleep, luckily. I'll set it for a time to take a nap in the PM, and forget to reset it to AM.

No. Although the other night it did something odd when I set it. But it wasn't exactly going off.

Yes. I was just talking about this a few days ago in another survey. I don't feel like getting into it again, so if you want to know the details, you'll have to go to that survey.

http://surveycentral.org/survey/20976.html

No, because to set it I have to pull out the little plug on the back for it to go off in the first place. My alarm clock doesn't beep, it buzzes.

yes, when I set it for PM when it should have been AM, and once when the power went out.

Yes. it has gone off when I didnt set it to go off, My brother gave it to me before he died, Im sure his spirit finds this very funny.

who?

Yes. My clock used to go off a couple hours after it went off the first time and I got up.

Guess!

Bonnie?

Yes, probably because I forgot it was Friday when I woke up.

yeah.

yes...it's really creepy...especially when it plays "I'm back in the Saddle Again"..every time it does it....

Just yesterday. Both my switches were in the off position, but for some reason when it hit the time designated for Slot 2, BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!

Yeah. Once I stayed at my son's house which is an hour away. Set the alarm a bit early to get up and go to work from there. Alarm went off, I got up, quietly left the house and got in the car. When I started the car the clock said is was 3.30 am. I had intended to leave at 6:30 am. I couldn't go back in the house since I didn't have a key and didn't want to wake anyone. I ended up driving to work and taking a nap in the car in the parking lot.

Not that i recall, though they frequently go off 12 hours later than i planned on.

Probably.

i liveed in aspen for a while and use to set my alarm to the skiiers howling, funny for me i wasn't a heavy sleeper

So that's like at 10 pm when the rum and hot cocoa starts to set in?

about that time, yes, now that yuou mention it

I bet you wouldn't sleep through this alarm clock...http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/0322scie...

maybe you're right. Howver, consider the possiblity that with my temper, I may smash that clock after a week. I bet I am not alone. Can you imagine CerealKiller putting up with that alarm for very long?

No I can't. I think ck has a bit of a short fuse and wouldn't tolerate such an alarm clock for more than one try.

For some reason, that made me think of that episode of Dilbert with the 7 of 9 alarm clock that said "Don't touch me."

I don't think I saw that, but it sounds funny!

I knew a WWII vet who at one time would buy alarms in bulk at yard sales, and shoot the things in the morning.

That's one way of turning the clock off without even getting out of bed. However, I don't think my neighbors would appreciate me doing that and with my terrible vision, I would probably shoot through the wall into the adjoining apartment instead of hitting the clock. At this time I doubt I could hit the side of a barn at point blank range!

I think he lived in some isolated concrete texas ranch cabin at the time. My neighbor has a machete and a taser now. I'm glad he doesn't have a gun or I'd be worried about being accidentally shot through the floor of my apt.

That does sound funny.

I can understand doing that if you lived in a isolated area with no neighbors nearby, but I have neighbors all around me.

I wasn't recommending it. In fact i rather cringe at the idea.

So do I. I realize that you weren't recommending it...in fact I was just being silly.

Just recently I was using my cell phone as an alarm clock and it went off at 4:57 instead of 6:00. I looked it over, it was set correctly, and I went back to sleep. It then went off again at 6:00 like it was supposed to.

No but there has been a bunch of times it did not go off and should off

Sometimes it screws up and goes off on p.m. instead of a.m., the cheap piece of crap.

Sometimes, it goes off an hour too late, that really pisses me off.

> No but there has been a bunch of times it did not go off and should
> off

That has happened to me, before, as well.

yes many times!!

I have had the opposite happen though. The alarm clock was on and set properly to go ring and it hasn't gone off!

it used to go nuts. I would set it for 6:30 and at 3 it would go off. I think it was cuz id throw it against the wall in the mornin to get it off

Yes...though usually it's not a problem since I have it set to radio and it's not loud. But once a few years ago I took a nap and set my clock's nap alarm; this one doesn't have a radio option so it just beeps. Well, I hit snooze, got up, and forgot to turn it off before going to a class or meeting and I came back to it going off--apparently it didn't bother anyone enough to have an RA key into my room.

But one time sophomore year I guess they did key into my room or something, because I came back to a note on my door from the girl across the hall to make sure my alarm clock or phone or whatever was off--I think she said they'd had to key into my room to turn it off.

Thing was--the radio on my alarm clock would not have been loud enough to even hear outside my room, unless for some reason it was the buzzer that went off. And it couldn't have been that anyway since I had something sitting in front of the alarm clock and it hadn't been moved (unless they'd put it back and I find it highly unlikely--it was just a glass of soda). Obviously it could not have been my phone, because they only ring about six times before the school's voice mail picked up so unless someone kept calling me back repeatedly--which no one I know would have--that could not have disturbed anyone. I had no other noisemaking objects in my room. The other suspicious thing was that she didn't know what was making the noise; when I had an RA key into someone's room to turn off the clock I had to go in with her because two people had to go in, so I knew what was making the noise, or you'd think they would have at least told her what it was. Plus, how many clocks and phones sound the same?? Also the fact that she left the note rather than the RA who keyed in.

So I have no idea why they really keyed into my room, if they did. Kinda scary and suspicious.

yes one night my toilet flushed by itself and my alarm went off..not the alarm part b/c I didnt have it set to alarm I had it set to radio. anywho, it went off at midnight EVEN THO IT WASNT SET TO GO OFF!! this was like 6 years ago while I was dating my husband and my daughter was gone to camp so I was home alone and it scared me to death!!

No, but mine doesn't have a switch. There is a knob on the back that you pull out. It's one of those that has the bells on top that the clapper strikes when the clock rings. It's very loud, but I need a loud alarm clock to wake me up.