Waking up With Digital Watch Alarms Vs Phone Alarm Clocks

In this world of car alarms, babies on airplanes and unnecessary tonsillectomies, very few things are more annoying than cell phones.  The reason I hate them is because you can no longer buy a cell phone that works JUST as a phone.  You are forced to buy cell phones with all kinds of accessories such as being a clock radio or a phone alarm clock.  They remind me of the digital watch craze of the early 1980's.

Switched On Beethoven

I went to school with a grandson of a DuPont.  This guy would get a new digital watch every month.  Remember – this was the 1980's.  Getting a new digital watch – let alone one with an alarm – was the equivalent of getting a new iPod every month.  A lot of his friends got the same gift for Christmas and birthdays (not that I ever got one).  But he had a favorite.

This digital watch would play the full version of Beethoven's "Fur Elise" as its alarm.  And you haven't lived until you've heard "Fur Elise" transcribed into BEEP BEEPS.  We couldn’t get enough of it.  We drove our teachers nuts in much the same way that today's generation of school kids are maddening their educators with phone alarm clocks.

Watch Out

Phones aren’t for talking on anymore.  Now they check the stock market, download porn and act as phone alarm clocks.  I guess you would need a phone alarm clock if you're downloading porn and checking the Dow-Jones.  If you really wanted an alarm clock, you can get one for the fraction of the price of a phone alarm clock.

Phone alarm clocks are even easier to loose than travel alarm clocks or digital watches.  You couldn’t loose a digital watch unless you took it off.  Now, you can loose your phone alarm clock before you even get it out of the store.  Or, it can be stolen by thieves of all species.  One man in Turkey found out that phone alarm clocks make great eating for dogs. 

He lost his phone and called it with another phone (obviously).  The ring came out of the dog's tummy.  Fortunately, all things must pass like the digital watch craze of the early 1980's and the phone alarm clock that the dog had eaten.  Perhaps fishing out that cell phone was a just reward for anyone who had to listen to this guy whooping it up on the phone with his mates.