This is my idea of Hell, an alarm clock that gives you one chance to turn it off and if you don’t…it leaps off your nightstand and starts rolling around your bedroom at lightening speeds until you find it and shut it off. That’s right: you have to chase the fucking thing.
And it’s fast, apparently.
If this sounds like exactly how you want to start your day (and if so, you are completely insane) you can get it at ThinkGeek.com. It’s called Clocky.
Truthfully, if this thing had been around when my kids were in high school I would have bought 3 of them and the first kid to break theirs would have had a punishment that would include painting the entire exterior of the house, accompanying me to my knitting class, and helping me shop for bras at the mall.
I want one for Mr. J! When the alarm clock goes off, I get up and start breakfast while stays in bed and repeatedly hits the snooze button. I would wait right around the corner just to watch him throw things at the clock. It would be worth the money, I think.
Oh yes… I love the idea of punishing them with a trip to help you shop for bras. You could have asked them to hold them up to their bosoms so that you can get a better idea of how the bra might look.
I would so chase that thing around with a bat and smash it to smithereens. I wonder how expensive they are? I’m sure I couldn’t afford to buy one for every day of the week. Clocky? Sounds like something from Pee-Wee’s Playhouse.
http://www.peewee.com/
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Whoa – yeah at $50 a pop I wouldn’t be buying one and it would be tough to break if it can jump over nightstands and survive. Hmmm. Now I feel a challenge. It’s the new pinata!
You are brutal in the punishment department. I didn’t even do anything wrong and I have to go bra shopping with my wife. Life is so unfair.
@ betme – Isn’t that a great punishment? I wish I’d thought of it at the time. Your idea of holding up the bras would have been great…my daughter wouldn’t have cared, but it would have made my sons vomit.
@ teeni – That’s the key, to make sure everyone knows how much that thing cost. Otherwise anybody would kill that thing on the first morning. But it would certainly get teenagers out of bed. Or no, they’d just learn to sleep through the noise.
@ Peter P. – Ha! It’s a fabulous punishment.
Whoever invented that fucking thing should have a tractor-sized version of it chase him around and run him over repeatedly. From 3:30 until 4:30 am.
If it was invented by a woman then change the runover time to 5:45 pm or right after the bra store closes, whichever comes first.
ANYTHING at the mall would be punishment for me!
@ David – Your entire comment was hilarious. I can’t follow it. It was just flat out hilarious.
That sounds like the most evil alarm clock ever invented!!!
“and helping me shop for bras at the mall.”….hahaha…I would sooo not f**k with you if you were my mom
That clock would end up where my vacuum cleaner did. One day I threw it out the back door. Barry came home to find it in pieces in the driveway. It just wasn’t behaving the way I wanted it to. I’m surprised he never found Damon laying out in the driveway in pieces.
I love your punishments. Why didn’t I think of those with Damon?
No way. This is awesome. I’m getting this because I have a really hard time getting out of bed. A little chase action is just what I need. Great post.
@ Ghetto Girl - I know it, right? Who the hell would want that thing? Oops…Abarclay wants it.
@ Romi – Yes, Romi, it’s true. I think up excellent punishments.
@ Joan – Truthfully, sometimes my excellent punishments work and sometimes they don’t.
@ Abarclay – Good for you, ready to jump out of bed and chase that fucking thing around the bedroom! I couldn’t do it. I’d be sleeping in the guest room to hide from it.