You’ve just gotten to your hotel, and hooray, your room is ready a little early! You checked beforehand to see if your hotel has been reported for bedbugs (here’s how you can do that) and happily, it hasn’t. You use that thermostat hack so the room temperature goes to what YOU want, not what Marriott/Hyatt/Hilton wants it to be. You unpack (there aren’t any drawers [here’s why] but there’s plenty of shelf space) and, after a quick glance at the clock on your nightstand, decide to do some quick sightseeing before dinner.
Overall, you have a lovely evening and get in pretty late. It’s OK though – you’re on vacation and can sleep in!
You get yourself all comfy and settle yourself to sleep. And at 4:30a, this happens:
Yep, your alarm clock goes off.
- Maybe the person who had your room before you had an early flight.
- Maybe housekeeping flicked the alarm on by mistake when they were doing their “enhanced cleaning” (stop laughing).
- Maybe some kid flicked the alarm on, on purpose, as a prank.
Whatever the case, you’re awake.
If you’re lucky, you can fall back to sleep. But if adrenaline is rushing through your veins because of the surprise wake-up call, you might lay there, wide awake, for a good long while.
You did everything else when you got to your hotel room, but you didn’t check the alarm clock to make sure the alarm wasn’t set to go off, did you?
I bet you will now, for the rest of your life.
I may or may not know this from personal experience. Just sayin’.
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