2. Alarm Clocks

I'm a teacher, and so I enjoy about 6 glorious classroom-free weeks every summer. The thing I enjoy most about being on holidays is being able to wake up whenever I feel like. Sometimes that is 7am, sometimes it is 11am, but it is always when my body decides it is time to get up. I avoid alarm clocks in the summer whenever possible. In fact, half the time the clock in my room isn't even set to the right time. Most people are not fortunate enough to get the holidays that teachers enjoy (or crazy enough to spend 8 hours a day with thirty 6 year olds, for that matter) and are forced to wake to an alarm clock during the summer months. And that, my friends, is the second reason being single is bliss - I don't have to wake up to the annoying MEHMEHMEH of some one else's alarm clock and then pretend to feel sorry for them while they trudge off to the office while I lay swaddled in a cocoon of blankets.