Public service announcement

To all the boyfriends/husbands/lovers/signifiant others,

When you are about to travel outside of the country and you have to get up very early to catch a morning plane and you know you’ll be gone for a couple of days, it is highly suggested that you remember to turn off your alarm clock so that your girlfriend/wife/lover/significant other won’t be shocked by a loud, buzzing alarm at 4:45am on the first morning after your departure.

If you fail to do so, we cannot guarantee your safety after you return home.

This has been a public service announcement.

By Martine

Screenwriter / scénariste-conceptrice

10 comments

  1. It’s even worse when your significant other has an alarm clock that’s just too complicated to figure out when it does ring at 4:45 am and you can’t even see without your glasses, which are in another room, and the cat is suddenly all frisky because she thinks she’ll be eating early and is getting in your way, and the plug to the alarm clock is hidden behind the headboard, which means you’ll have to get up off the bed, move the bed, unplug the *damned* alarm clock, and then try to get a couple more hours sleep, only to wake up an hour late because you unplugged your own alarm clock also.
    Ahem.

  2. Ha ha! This sounds exactly like my morning, except maybe for the cat who was too sleepy to even consider getting up.

  3. Normalement, pour des raisons de s�curit�, un public announcement, ca se fait dans les 2 langues officielles…

    Mais bon…p-e que c’�tait pas n�cessaire…

  4. Raoul, disons que le message �tait destin� � un public… euh… cible! ;-)

  5. on behalf of all the boyfriends/husbands/lovers/significant others…

    …oops. we’re sorry. we’re really, really sorry. it’s not that we meant to…it’s just that we didn’t want to miss the damn flight.

    and of course, we’re too preoccupied trying to figure out what clever, cute souveneir gift we’re going to get you that we _totally_ forget to call you, once we arrive at our destination, to tell you that we may have, accidentally, and regretfully, left our alarm clocks in the ‘on’ position.

    but we’re really, really sorry. and we love you. did i mention that?

    p.s. good luck Ed. better you than me (although, as I write this I am struck by the overwhelming sensation that I will _totally_ forget to turn my alarm clock off next time I travel. and then it will be me.)

  7. The Milliner: did you say « gift »? :-)

    Garrett: So the Blorker Prize should be offered to the biggest « gaffe »?

  8. You say « gaffe », I say « the law of unintended consequences », but that’s the general idea yes *;)

  9. :-( Sorry! :-P

    (And for those of you who think we have a very formal relationship… I apologized in person first. That’s the « proper » thing to do, isn’t it? Let me check my Emily Post…)

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