my cheap-ass watch starts beeping at 2:36 every morning

[fishwax]

I don't know how to turn the freaking alarm off.

I don't even wear a watch. But I do keep it in my backpack. The only reason I bought the damn thing is because I forgot my cell phone one day and I need some kind of timepiece b/c there were no clocks in the room where I was teaching, so I bought the cheapest watch I could find at the drug store on teh way to work.

The clock is always either two hours or one hour fast (depending on daylight savings time). I've tried to correct the time, but the buttons make no logical sense. I rarely use it--except when, once again, I forget my cell phone on my way to school.

But whatever it's numerous deficiencies, it always makes sure I know when it's 2:36. For that, I suppose, I should be grateful.

:shrug:

[Heidi]

1. That's the "time for fondue" setting.

I'm surprised that isn't spelled out in the owner's manual. :hi:

[Richardo]

2. HA!

:rofl:

[fishwax]

3. the watch is super-cheap -- no owner's manual -- otherwise,

I'm sure you're right :rofl:

:hi:

btw--did your parents like the fondue set?

fondue--:drool:

[Heidi]

5. Get this:

my mom's afraid to use it because it involves flammable liquid. :eyes:

[fishwax]

8. d'oh!

Perhaps she could replace the sterno can with a stack of small twigs :shrug: -- ah, if she only knew what she was missing :)

I haven't had fondue in a while, but when the semester is over I'm definitely having fondue to celebrate :)

[Heidi]

9. Another option:

she could let my dad freakin' make the fondue. After all, he ably handles the gas grill. :rofl:

[fishwax]

10. they could always stick the fondue pot on the grass grill

Smoked fondue--:9

:rofl:

[Heidi]

11. Hahahahahahahaha!

If my mom burned the house down, that would also result in smoked fondue. :rofl: :spray:

[fishwax]

12. truly, a small price to pay

for great to pay for great fondue :) :hi:

[jeff30997]

4. And you know how to use a computer?!?

Amazing! :rofl:

[fishwax]

7. It's funny--I remember visiting my grandparents as a kid

and everyone in the family had specific "chores" they would do. My father and brother, for instance, were good at carpentry, so they would check the foundation, fixed damaged shingles, and so on ... my job, as a young lad, was to reset every digital clock in the house, which nobody other than me could figure out how to do.

But this stupid watch--it's just not worth figuring out. Four stupid buttons, and I'm convinced they're all completely random :rofl:

[gmoney]

14. press them one at a time until the seconds start blinking

(If one is labeled reset start there, mine is top left) then press one of the others until it cycles thru seconds (mine is bottom left), hours and minutes, then one of the OTHERS actually probably advances the digits so you can set the time (mine is top right). When you're done, press the first button again.

The fourth one is probably a backlight so you can read it in the dark (mine is bottom right).

To turn the alarm on and off, on mine, you press the lower left (mode) until the display at the top says AL, then press the top right button so the little alarm icon switches off.

Mine is the cheapest one Meijer had, so might be similar to the one you have... good luck!


Of course, if you get it turned off, you'll still wake with a start at 2:36 am and wonder "did I sleep thru my alarm?"

[Bicoastal]

6. With all the terrible things going on in the world...

...these are the problems you WANT to have.

[Duer 157099]

13. OMG, I used to have a STOVE that did that - but at 2:30 AM

I swear, this is true. I finally had to actually disconnect the wires for the stove timer, to get it to stop.

It would wake me up EVERY frikken night, and it was always 2:30 something, just like yours.

Maybe theres a joke amongst factory workers somewhere, to screw with us?

[Hand]

15. Insh'Allah. nt

[pitohui]

16. here is the owner's manual -- it worked for me w. several cheap watches!

many cheap watches are of this complicated design, not just aqua techs, anyway it helps me in changing the time the alarm goes off or sometimes i turn off the alarm altogether

http://dive.scubadiving.com/members/gearreviews.php?s=593

my genuine $6 aquatechs the battery finally ran out and walmart apparently sells them no more but, as i say, i've bought other cheap watches that work along the same lines, i use this site because the instructions that come with cheap watches are printed too small for me to read

[Skittles]

17. you want I should crush that watch?

or kick your cheap fishwax ass? :7