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[senoritafish]

This morning I was dreaming there was a mockingbird outside my window, doing that awful screechy noise they do when they're nesting and think something is threatening them. The noise they make when they're about to dive bomb your cat. It kept getting louder and louder, and I was thinking, "Man, what is bugging that bird?!"

Then I opened my eyes and it was my alarm clock.

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[konoichi.livejournal.com]

Once after a very long and bitter winter I heard a persistent chirp and assumed it must be some electronic thing malfunctioning, maybe a fire alarm.

It was a bird. :P

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

How modern times have changed us! We're so dependent on our electronics, we forget what can be outside the window sometimes.

Even what, 20 years ago? it never would have occured to anyone that it was something electronic.

(Blah. That first sentence? I think I read Plato or some other greek philosopher bemoaning the same thing. Don't mind me.)

;)

[bakayaro-onna.livejournal.com]

rat knew a mockingbird at his old office that had learned how to make that beep beep backup sound those big machines make. The bird could also do a variety of car alarms.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I know there's at least one in my neighborhood that imitates pet cockatiels and lovebirds.

My dad swears when he was a kid he taught one to whistle the first line of Yankee Doodle. I always tried to repeat that experiment, but was never successful; I think mockingbirds nowadays have too much other stuff to listen to.

[lemonrocket.livejournal.com]

Once, I went on a tour with my orchestra. I went to bed early because I was catching an early flight home, and not being the best at getting up in the mornings, I set the alarm for 7am. So, I woke up to this beeping noise and immediately thrust out my hand and banged the alarm clock button for it to stop. I darn near broke the thing and it kept beeping. When I was fully awake, I realised it was my hotel roommate's cell phone, to which she was cheerfully chatting away to someone on at 4am.

[senoritafish.livejournal.com]

I have recurring dreams where my alarm clock is going off, and I am trying and trying to shut it off because it's driving me crazy. Push all the buttons, unplug it, take it apart, remove the batteries, etc. One time even a biology professor I had at the time (who was notorius for getting off the topic and wandering off on other tangents) walked in my bedroom and started pontificating on how to turn the damn clock off and how I was doing it wrong and then getting sidetracking and lecturing about something else. Eventually, it usually ends by my finally taking a sledgehammer to the irritating thing - it's busted into tiny pieces on the ground and STILL beeping at me - when I wake up with my clock going off in my ear.

This is not usually a good start to the day...