What is the most annoying thing to ever wake you up?

[OliveCrab]

Neighbours with power tools

My friend once booped my nose to wake me up at 6am while we were staying in a hostel in South America. I was raging for a moment.

My dog repeatedly licking his balls..

A hospital porter chatting loudly about his jobs list and how he was a bit tired on his phone.

At 2am.

In the middle of the postnatal ward.

If you're now plotting this man's demise (as i would be), i will gladly give you an alibi.

The children next door thumping and banging their piano before 7am every single morning, day after day, year after year.

My large ginger cat started jumping off my wardrobe onto my chest or back to wake me up. I moved the wardrobe the second time he did it.

Power cut in the night, woke up to every electrical item I've ever owned telling me it had power again. Robot hoover went for a little walk, printer started printing test pages, every wall thermostat glowed, chorus of different beeps! Enough! I get it!

My neighbours dog that needs intense training to make it stop barking. 😡

That beeping noise that my smoke alarm makes when the batteries are getting low.

Sounds similar to what happened to me. I was woken up by my bedroom light coming on and music blaring from my iPod dock.

Otherwise lovely neighbour who starts his (gorgeous but very rumbly) classic car every Sunday morning at the crack of dawn and lets it run for 20 minutes. If he or the car weren't so lovely I'd have gone insane by now.

Building works

Smoke alarm beeping and going off. Not because there was a fire, but because the batteries were going. It was 3 am and didn't have any friggin batteries. Disconnected it and it still kept beeping!

Think that episode of Friends of where the smoke alarm wakes Phoebe up and she throws it down the garbage shoot. I ended up wrapping it in a duvet and sticking it in the dryer (turned off at the wall) just so we could all get some bloody sleep!

Ahahaha @pinneddownbytabbies I was about to write exactly your post. Nothing worse than the dreaded wretching sound at 2am that precedes a mahoosive fur-ball delivery on the pillow next to your nose 🤢

Our bedroom is on the 3rd floor of our house but it’s actually in the roof space. Something is loose up there (not a tile) and when it’s windy it tap, tap, taps alllll night long. We can’t see what it is, it must be something small and we forget about it until the next time it’s windy and the tapping starts up again 😭.

Definitely next door’s fucking stupid yappy dog.

Oh god yes the dog ball slurping - dog is fanatical when he starts. Vile noise

Grown men sea swimmers who shout Woo Woo at 6am.
And the wormwho scream oo the water is freezing... No shit sherlock??

leaked stoma bag , usually once a week

DS when he was about 3-4 used to wake me up by blowing up one of my nostrils! 😬

Next doors cockerel

Being unceremoniously and to my mind, cruelly wakened from a very pleasantly absorbing dream by my husband's seismic rumble of a snore, while I desperately tried to integrate this surprise item on the agenda extended grunt into my by now, totally ruined filmshow.

😂😂 this same exact thing happened to me at 3am about 6 months ago! I too wrapped it in a towel and deposited it in the washing machine until I had more energy to deal with it!

A snake in the bed - it was my arm that had gone dead from lying on it. I woke up trying to chuck it off me and shouting at it. Then having woken DH too it dawned on me that it was just my arm gone dead - I laughed so much afterwards