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Perverse alarm clocks

Pocahontas told me a story of a college friend who’d stayed up until three the night before a final, so he set two alarms, one of them across the room, to be sure he got there in time.

He woke up three hours late with the alarm clock from across the room in his hand.

Maybe one of these top ten most annoying alarm clocks would have made the difference. I’ve admired several of these before, like the one that launches a helicopter you have to catch, or the one that rolls of your night table and hides, but the one that launches puzzle pieces into the air that you have to re-insert for it to silence was a new one to me.

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