Strange Attachments
The last (and only) visitors we’ve had out here in Seattle kindly pointed out that the alarm clock in our guest bedroom doesn’t really work so well. The number LEDs are a bit wonky and don’t display the correct time. Doh! This alarm clock was J’s old alarm clock. So the other day I purchased a new alarm clock for the guest room since Tom and Stepho are supposedly coming to visit in December (wahoo!) - even though Stepho says they have no intention of setting any sort of alarm while here. But that isn’t the point of my story, I digress.
I unplug the old non-working alarm clock and set it on the kitchen table for J to see when he comes home. It is garbage night after all, and figured he might like the honor of chucking it. Boy was I wrong! Oh no, there is no intention of chucking by J. “But… I got that alarm clock for my Bar Mitzvah! And took it to camp with me! Its been through highschool and college and most of my married life thus far with me!”
Oh my.
I asked him to be a guest blogger and write an obituary for his alarm clock and all the good times they’ve had. Although… I know for a fact it has not gotten his butt out of bed many many times. This clock by no means has a perfect record. He refused to write anything. So I’m blogging about it anyway. The dog had a moment of silence for it as well. This item might get “lost” in our next move.
Who am I to talk… I still have my baby blanket. But an alarm clock? Seriously.
Posted: November 17th, 2006 under crafty thoughts.
Comments: 3
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Comment from Mom
Time: November 19, 2006, 9:46 am
I’m smiling and chuckling. J is not as bad as me yet, but this is how rat packing starts. Where will he or you ’store’ the defunct alarm clock ‘in case he needs it’ sometime in the next decade.
Mom
Comment from allyson
Time: November 19, 2006, 1:55 pm
It must be a family thing, because I have the exact same alarm clock (I think we must have gotten it around the same time, or else I HAD MINE FIRST! :)) and I still have it, even though it is incredibly hard to change the time or the alarm settings, since the way you would normally do this doesn’t work. You have to hit several buttons while holding one down and, yeah, it’s just not worth it anymore. But in a weird way, it’s the only alarm clock I trust, even though it sucks. An attachment to childhood, maybe?
It has been relegated to the guest room, although now it is in a box somewhere. It is a Sony and it has outlasted the other two that we bought for the master bedroom.
you made me laugh! thanks!
Comment from Marguerite
Time: November 19, 2006, 4:39 pm
You mean you actually checked with him before throwing out his stuff?? A novel concept I am not familiar with … (sorry, honey, I don’t know where your decades old users manuals are…)
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