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I want to know why the alarm clock off button is built like something you'd not want to use. Snooze is a big fat easy button; off is a small switch hidden among other switches and usually on the bottom back of the device, requiring turning off to stop the alarm and then turning the switch back on to re-enable it for the next day. Once I'm awake, I want to shut the alarm up - period - without having to find and fiddle with a hidden control. Or am I seriously missing something obvious about standard cheap alarm clocks?


Because for people like me, unconscious zombie-like bears who will dig through concrete walls with bare hands in order to quiesce the source of the disturbance of my crucial slumber, while maintaining no memory of the demolished wall should I be successfully woken 10 seconds later, easily shut off devices simply have no effect.

I've woken up a few times on the floor curled around the power cord to the alarm clock, torn from the wall (or to find a phone in 15 pieces and a new dent in the wall).. many, many people like me


I think the idea is to make it harder to semi-consciously turn off the alarm clock before you're really awake.




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