How things change in a lifetime. Part 2

How things change in a lifetime. Part 2 Alarm Clocks

 Before going to bed one had to wind the alarm clock. Forget and it make not work through to the next morning. Tick-tock, tick-tock, the very sound draws stocked with muffling socks was invented. Time to screech into life. Ripping through cozy dreams and dragging us from the land of slumber. Hands unguided reaching out, trying to switch off the hideous bell. If all else fails, throw, flip or fling clock across the room. 

Now the never sleeping mobile phone waits next to our beds, Emitting waves of energy that gently fry our brains. The alarm beeps into action. Switching off delicately, for even in a sleepy state the mobile sits upon a pedestal that an alarm clock can never attain. The phone is saved from the throwing, pushing and dropping that was, and no doubt is, the everyday lot of the alarm clock. Times change.