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My son had a really hard time getting up to an alarm when he was in high school. We hadn’t discovered ADD and the joys of Ritalin yet (which really helped him.) He slept so soundly, he’d saw logs right on through his alarm. At his request, I got him the loudest alarm I could find. I stood in 3 stores and set off alarms until I found The One. My husband was working about 250 miles away at the time, so he stayed with his cousin and her family during the week and came home on weekends. The girls (who are 10 and 12 years younger than our son) and I had gotten used to the alarm, and I forgot to tell Hubby about it that weekend. Our room was directly across from his, and both doors were open when the alarm went off at about 5 a.m. Hubby just about levitated off the bed, and immediately started shouting that I should grab the kids and he’d go see where the fire was. I had to make a grab for his foot as he was leaving the bed, and cut through his panic enough to tell him it was just an alarm clock, not the fire alarm. That was over 20 years ago, and I think he still bears the emotional scars. Heh heh heh.
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