Balcom Agency

If you've seen the movie Apollo 13, you know how I wake up every morning. The sound my alarm clock makes is a slightly higher-pitched version of the shuttle's Master Alarm. Except for the mornings I wake up early enough to shut it off before it sounds, I am awakened by a frightening electronic honk that seems to scream "We're all going to die!" As soon as I realize that I am, in fact, in bed, and not hurdling around the moon in an oxygen-depleted cockpit, and the earth is not about to be destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, I turn over and switch it off.

Why don't I get a new alarm clock?

Because there are certain benefits to getting up in the morning with adrenaline in my veins. 

Such as:

Instant brain activity

No need for a caffeine drip

Superhuman strength

Okay, maybe not the first one.