Driving to work this morning, Ellie and I got on the subject of the clock in her car. She sets it between 6 and 9 minutes ahead, and every so often adds or subtracts a minute, presumably to keep us guessing. I've seen this done many times, with alarm clocks, kitchen clocks and so forth. The general concept, I assume, is to hurry yourself along feeling that you are late. It drives me crazy.
My argument is this, I am in no mood to perform mental gymnastics when we are already running late in real life. Secondly, no matter what time it actually is, being 10 minutes behind is just added stress and will make me drive like a lunatic.
I am curious how wide-spread this stress inducing tactic is being used in the 2FNS community?
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Mom14 sets the alarm clock – without an alarm, 22 minutes fast, and it fools her everyday! Kind of like 50 first dates…
Excuuuse me – the above comment was made by the man who got up an hour and twenty two minutes early for work not too long ago because he forgot that I hadn’t changed the clock yet from daylight savings time!
Hey now, he is not a morning person
We use our phone alarms in the morning and my garmin watch sets itself… technology….
I set the clocks in my cars to one or two minutes ahead because I never account for the time it takes to get out of the car and to the door of wherever I’m going. I’m also too lazy to set them to match actual time down to the second, and I don’t want it to be 30 seconds too slow or something like that.
I stand by my decisions. Also, I think I’ve had it ahead for so long, changing it back would just make me that much later to everything because I’d think I had more time.