Ten Commandments for Alarm Clock Users

1. Thou shalt always choose an alarm that sounds nothing like your partner’s cell phone ring.
2. Thou shalt never set the alarm too early to allow for snoozing.
3. Thou shalt always turn off the alarm before it wakes your partner.
4. Thou shalt never knock everything off the nightstand while attempting to silence the alarm.
5. Thou shalt always keep the alarm within reach.
6. Thou shalt never snooze more than once.
7. Thou shalt always remember to set the alarm before going to bed.
8. Thou shalt never turn a light on in the middle of the night to set a forgotten alarm.
9. Thou shalt always turn the alarm off before going to bed when it will not be required the next morning.
10. Thou shalt never snooze the alarm then carry it across the room and leave it there while taking a shower forcing your partner to stumble around trying to silence it and tripping in the dark making a racket then innocently asking “What’s wrong?”