outside for 8 but thought little of it. She realized, however, that her alarm clock hadn’t gone off. "Damn thing!", she thought to herself. She knew she would have to replace the old thing before someone at work actually paid attention and realized that she was often late in the morning because of it. As her rounds took her by her bed she casually picked up the old digital cock – its little number flap changing to 8:04 from 8:03 as she lofted it to her view. Briefly her mind registered that yes, indeed, the alarm should have went off at 8:00and hadn’t, and then she focused in on the smaller little am/pm flap in the bottom corner. PM – "what the hell?" "Damn clock!", she would finally go get a new one today. Then she second