WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for March 31, 2022

Stick some cotton in your ears. Then go get a bucket of ice cold water. If that doesn’t wake him up then he must be dead.

I actually lived about a hundred yards from a house like that. In summer when the windows were open we would hear their radio alarm clock blasting every morning for an hour until it naturally clicked off. We always wondered who in the family could sleep through it and who slept with ear plugs.

My brother slept through a 115 miles per hour hurricane described as a violent extratropical cyclone seriously damaged property all around the apartment block he was living in. It claimed 18 lives and an estimated 15 million trees were brought down by gusts, and he woke up the following morning. looked out the window and wondered what happened. Nobody else I know sleeps as hard as him.

I knew a guy that snored as loud as a police siren. No kidding! How he slept through that I will never know.

After pulling an all nighter studying for back to back Chemistry/Calculus midterms, I crashed hard. My roommate woke me up to go to the homecoming pep rally. He could not believe I slept through the marching band playing the school song while marching down the dorm hallway.

When I was younger, and worked a lot and partied a lot, one night I fell asleep and slept for 23 hours straight…I had to also use two alarms, one on the night stand and one in an empty tin wastebasket.

It’s my grandson! Had to get him a bed shaker to wake him up.

People who ignore alarms usually were raised having people insure they got up for whatever. When you let individuals suffer the consequences for sleeping thru the alarm, after a few times they have NO trouble hearing the alarm and getting up.

An older brother with a glass of cold water also works…

Visited a watch and clock museum, they had an early alarm clock that had a wire with a loop that went around a toe and the alarm jiggled the wire.

Maybe a deaf person who doesn’t know his alarm is set?

I have a non-aggressive chirping clock beside the bed. Set five minutes later just inside the hall, a crack’o’doom atomic (referring to setting synchronization) clock that gets progressively louder.