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MrsP81

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Re: I'm Probably Overreacting but....
« Reply #30 on: January 08, 2007, 09:02:03 PM »
I would be annoyed. Are there really no working alarm clocks in their entire house? And if he has a cell phone there is most likely an alarm on there. He's a grown man - let him figure it out.
Not very polite but I would completely forget to call him in the morning!

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Re: I'm Probably Overreacting but....
« Reply #31 on: January 08, 2007, 09:20:36 PM »
LOL!

This is the "other" brother that has never been married and has no children.  My DH had never been married or had children either.  He's pretty clueless too.  That explains it.   :P

Don't worry, problem solved.  Our other alarm clock is now safely over there and a reminder has been givin that HIS CELL PHONE HAS AN ALARM.  I think they got the hint.   :P

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Re: I'm Probably Overreacting but....
« Reply #32 on: January 08, 2007, 09:35:03 PM »
My nephew can hold entire conversations on the phone in his sleep.  Asking questions and all.  Takes after his father.

How do you know when someone like that is truly awake? 

Good for you for getting him his own alarm clock
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Re: I'm Probably Overreacting but....
« Reply #33 on: January 08, 2007, 09:36:21 PM »

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Re: I'm Probably Overreacting but....
« Reply #34 on: January 08, 2007, 11:30:50 PM »
Oh, that's hilarious.

I'm having a flashback ... some years ago when I first moved out here (some 900 miles from my parents), my younger brother (7 years younger) was still living at home.  Brother had a girlfriend who would provide 'wake up calls' ...

Well, one afternoon, I wanted to call my parents to convey some information to them (I forget what ... this is almost 20 years ago, but it was important at the time), and they weren't home ... but brother was (and sleeping).  So he answered the phone, and I'm getting these half-coherent responses and I'm paying long-distance prices ... I tell him not to answer again so the machine can get it, hang up, try again ... and he answered the darn phone *again*.  I was finally able to get through around 9pm and reach my parents ...

All of which made me conclude that no one who lives in a house w/ other people should be getting 'wake up calls'.

But my mind is still boggled by the request in the OP.


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Re: I'm Probably Overreacting but....
« Reply #35 on: January 09, 2007, 09:24:49 AM »
You're probably overreacting a tiny bit as the result of being irritated about the owed money and years of this continued behavior. It's learned helplessness and it does no one any good.
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