Sarah's Crazy Time Machine

Ok, if Sarah wrote this blog, then she could enumerate my silly ways of doing things, but I write the blog.

For many years now, very many, the clock in our bedroom has been on Sarah's side of the bed. This was for good reason, she got up first. She is an early riser and I will get up when I have to do so. Most couples have this dichotomy.

So how does Sarah motivate herself to rise early? She sets the clock ahead in time by 10 to 15 minutes, 20 to 25 minutes on occasion. The problem is that I never know what time it is when I wake up. I play the game of it being 25 minutes earlier than what the clock says only to find out later that it was only 10 minutes earlier, and I am late getting ready for work in the old days, late for an appointment now.

Then, burned, I go back to assuming that it is only 10 minutes earlier when it was 25 minutes earlier and I cheat myself out of 15 minutes of napping.

Any attempt to correct the situation by simply setting the clock myself while she is not around is quickly noticed by her and she resets it. This morning, I complained and she set the clock to the correct time. She wants something that is going to cost me a lot of money. I can feel it.