DP blaming me.

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I work FT, DP is SAHD.

This morning the alarm went at 07.40am, I switched it off and had a snooze.

Next thing I open my eyes, check the clock and it's 09.05am! I need to be in work by 09.30am and it's at least 40min drive! Fuck!

So I go into bathroom, quick wash, teeth brushed etc etc, no shower because of how late I am, make up and hair then clothes. I don't go downstairs until I'm ready to go.

During this time I'm thinking 'why hasn't dd woke up, this is really late for her' It has happened occasionally on the weekend where she has slept a little later and we've taken advantage and had a lie in so we thought it was one of these mornings, but naturally I worry, so said to DP 'we best check on her' So we did.

She was asleep, and we gently woke her up. She was a little grumpy but we thought it may have been because she slept too heavy.

Anyway, we all go downstairs (at this point I'd have breakfast with them, but due to the time I was leaving straight away), then I look at the clock on the dining room wall. It says 07.20am. Checked TV, same time.

Turns out, my alarm clock was wrong and it was 2 hours earlier than I thought! No wonder dd was grumpy.

Of course DP is now in a terrible mood, blaming me, and in general not being very nice about it. We had a row I left the house anyway and now I'm in work an hour earlier than I should.

Surely it's not anyones fault that the clock was wrong.

Just noticed a text from DP apologising for what he said this morning.

Now I feel a proper cow.

Go on then, shame me.

I'll take home extra weekend treats.

VolvoMo - tell us a joke then :)

I'm laughing here.

Glad it's all sorted

Lol! Think he's just cross about the rude awakening and the panic first thing in the morning, he'll probably be laughing about it tonight when you go home.

If this is the worst you have to fight abut then you are doing not bad!

Glad you're both ok now. YWNBU by the way, it would have been funny in our house, worth an eyeroll at worst.

MissFaversham

We don't need an alarm clock because DH has actual magical powers. He tells himself what time to wake up and it always works. This morning DS beat him to it though, shouting 'I EATING CHEESE!' very loudly in his sleep with his head 2cm from my ear.

MissFaversham

I feel like such a fool, I was ready for leaving him this morning....

Drama queen, moi? :)

If you DD and DH didn't have to go anywhere I would have left them to sleep even if it was after 9am. In this house we rarely get up by 9 if no one has to be anywhere. I would have been very grumpy if DH had done that to me and probably would have blamed him for not noticing the clock was wrong when I set my alarm.

Life would be boring without a bit of drama though wouldn't it OP

I can´t help wondering how no one noticed that the clock was wrong last night when setting the alarm.

Am I the only one who thinks it´s odd to need an alarm for 7.40?

That´s a lie in here!

really diddl?

why do you find it odd what time I set my alarm for? I know how long it takes to get ready, how late I can leave the house before work etc. Am I the only one who finds it odd that you're questioning my alarm time?

we watched a movie last night, Cast Away (we recorded it on Sky) it ended quite late. DP was in bed before me, the light was out. I got in and flicked the switch on the alarm without looking.

Yes Diddl you ARE the only person wondering why the OP's alarm is set for 7.40. The rest of us correctly assumed that 7.40 is the time she likes to get up.
What's it to you?

Just seems odd to me that you would need an alarm to wake up at what (to me) is a late hour.

But that is probably just me.

Yes, it's just you.
Anything else that's none of your concern you'd like to pick apart, or are you all done now?

No, I think I´ll keep picking, thanks.

I once had a ds who would often be fast asleep at 9am, I would have had to set the alarm for 7.40! These days the very same ds gets up at 6.30. But not before dd has started complaining around 5am and dh has had to go get into bed with her to persuade her it isn't morning yet. Then we have the groth spurting baby. I miss sleep.

I'm glad he's apologised - I think I would probably have the same reaction as him if I'm honest I'm really not a morning person!

However - it really doesn't matter how grumpy I am about being woken up, I'm always over it by lunchtime. Unless, of course, it was in the realms of 6am when I didn't need to get up till 10!

pick away dids, I'm an open book me :)

Oh and FWIW DP & I go to bed quite late, or at least he does, I go up an hour earlier to read most evenings. Sometimes I'm still reading when he comes to bed.

DD often wakes in the night and I see to her 99% of the time, quite often I wake before the alarm but don't get up as the noise from the boiler when I switch the shower on might wake dd unneccessarily, so I read a little more.

Usually, it's all quiet in my house at 07.40am, dd is 18mo and sleeps until between 8am and 08.30am - we are quite lucky in that respect.

Anything else you want to know dids? Seeing as we're becoming bezzies

I am just amazed that anyone still uses an alarm clock these days. Everyone I know sets the alarm on their phone. :)

squeakytoy - I don't take my phone to bed.

I'm old skool

Well I´m thinking that if he went up first & knew that you wouldn´t put the light on, then it´s his fault for not checking the clock!

now that's the thinking I like diddl!

Let me pass that little gem to DP later

I dont take my phone to bed to use as a phone, it is on silent, but I use it as an alarm and keep it on charge by the bed. Even in the rare event of a powercut I would still have my alarm going off on time that way, and have the right time to look at if I woke up before the alarm.

It's a classic silly mistake that happens to everyone occasionally. Hardly worth a row over, let alone people going into work leaving an unpleasant atmosphere behind them. However, I'm still a bit baffled about why everyone else needed to get up. If everyone was still sleepy but didn't actually need to get up and go anywhere, why not leave them in bed?

Indith - I know we're quite lucky with the way dd sleeps, and also know that it will change sooner or later so we're kind of taking advantage of it now.

This morning I had no reason to doubt my alarm clock. Lesson learned hey?

Cheers everyone