How I'm early for everything.

My netbook.  Be jealous of the slime.

So I wake up at around 7:30am on most weekdays.  Why does this bug me?  Well my first class isn't until 9:10 (9:35 on Tuesdays and Thursdays).  I guess I just underestimate how efficient I am in the morning.  By 8:00 I have gotten up, changed my clothes, brushed my teeth, packed my backpack, checked Facebook, Twitter, and Google News, looked at the weather for the day, checked my Email, and eaten a Pop-Tart.  I leave my room and start walking to class and it's always a ghost town.  Then I sit in the hallway outside my classroom for almost an hour.  "Well Thomas, why don't you wake up later?".  I've tried.  My alarm clock is set to 8 am every day.  I wake up before it.  At least I have my netbook to keep me entertained for an hour+.

People in dorms who can't cook.

Last night, at around 9:30pm, the fire alarm with the creepy voice in my dorm went off.   Now at first we all just thought it was another drill, because when the first drill happened, the top 7 floor's alarms didn't work.  But as we started walking down the 26 flights of stairs, we started to smell smoke.  Around the 21st floor, the smell started to go away.  So we all get to the bottom, and walk the 100 feet away from the building and wait as the 5 firetrucks pull up and the firefighters go in... blah blah blah.  So 30 minutes later, the finally start to let us 850+ residents back in (remember, 4 elevators for 26 floors).  Later, on the class Facebook group, someone reveals that some guy on the 21st floor left his food on the stove, it burned to a crisp, and filled the 21st floor with smoke, thus setting off the alarm.  So the moral of the story is:  If you go to college, get a meal plan so you don't have to cook burn your own food.

Emergency Exit only stairs.

I've run into this one at a couple of different places.  The other day, I decided to walk down the 26 flights of stairs in my dorm building instead of taking the elevator.  When I finally got to the bottom, what did I find?  A big red door with the words "Emergency Exit Only: Alarm will sound!", and a big vandal proof security camera facing the door.  I had to walk up 5 flights to the first guy floor to leave the staircase and take the elevator down to floor 1. Want an even worse example?  The Disneyland Hotel has a staircase that locks as soon as the door closes.  Walk into the stairs by accident?  You need to walk all the way down and take the elevator back up.  I get security issues, but some of these are ridiculous.  Just let me walk down the stairs.

Phone Alarm Clocks with the default of "weekdays only".

The Culprit: The enV3.

One time, my friend Ryan and I were sharing a hotel room at the Hyatt Regency Kansas City for the JEA Fall Convention.  We needed to be at breakfast by 7 so that we could be at the convention by 8. Simple right?  So we set Ryan's brother's phone (his had died that week) to go off at 6:30am.  We specifically checked that it was AM and not PM.  Next morning, we both wake up to the sound of someone pounding at our door.  When we answered the door, it was Mr. Dent, wondering why neither of us were answering our phones or at breakfast.  What time was it? 8:01am.  Upon further examination, the phone's alarm default was for weekdays only, and today was a Saturday.  Moral of the story: Whenever you set an alarm, triple-check every setting so you don't look like a fool.