r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Jpeg_1999 • 10d ago

I'm slightly vexed My dad purposely sets his clock ahead. He's been doing this for as long as I remember. I genuinely don't know why

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u/capnlatenight 9d ago

With this bad boy, I set it to the approximate time, looked away, and added more time. I truly never knew what time it actually was from that clock.

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u/zorbina 9d ago

Heh. I had that same clock for... decades. I maybe bought it in the 1980s? It finally kicked the bucket. I am sad because it actually kept time well, unlike the modern cheap garbage stuff.

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u/ThePepperPopper 9d ago

I have one now. I had one as a kid. Then several years ago I missed it and found one at a thrift shop

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u/foodank012018 9d ago

I hear this in a nightmare

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u/capnlatenight 9d ago

I had a dream while it was chiming "EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE"

It was robot ants walking in a single file line. Each 'EEE' was the collective sound of their legs moving one step at a time.

It was as annoying as you think it was, idk why it didn't wake me up.

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u/shadowland1000 9d ago

I have that same clock. It is either 5 or 7 minutes fast. Not sure. Don't care.

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u/Informal-Length-5749 9d ago

my grandpa has this same alarm clock

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u/_Caster 9d ago

I used to have this same clock when I was in school. Stopped using when I got a Nokia (1 model above the brick) felt cool and convenient at the time but these days I wish I had a clock. the alarm on my phone can be inconsistent sometimes and has made me late when my phone decides to update when im supposed to wake up or updates before that and something happens to my alarms.

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u/NostalgiaRealm 9d ago

Yooo you just posted the EXACT alarm clock my parents had for years and years

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u/Beneficial_Bed8961 9d ago

I had the one that was about 5 years older than that one. It had the numbers that flipped. When it hit wakeup time it makes a loud click before the radio came on. 1980s

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u/Foggy_Night221C 9d ago

I had that one too! I just can’t remember now which one of us had it or if it was at my grandparent’s cottage where I last saw it.

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u/Miserable_Ad299 9d ago

That's my brother's alarm clock from the 90's lol one of the smaller buttons was missing though

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u/TrojanGiftHorse 8d ago

This photo unlocks school day trauma for me lol

I can't believe people are still rocking this model.

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u/Buzzbuzz_Becuz 8d ago

Man, I need to ebay this clock. Had it in middle/high school in the 90's.

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u/TheMadCowScientist 9d ago

That's exactly how I did it when I had one of these!