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[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I dunno how I've been so lucky in the past. But I got to the gate just as they were doing final boarding twice, TWICE. And I'm usually an hour and a half early type. Fucking smartphones and their malfunctioning alarms!

[โ€“] Evkob@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

Fucking smartphones and their malfunctioning alarms

I got got by this too many times, so I bought a digital alarm clock at the thrift store, a cheap old thing from the '80s. It reliably blares FM radio at me every morning and I haven't missed an alarm since.

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