#29: This Is Not a Wake-Up Service
Some of you younger folks who have only ever used the alarm clock on your phone, or people who have not had a lot of chances to stay in hotels, might not be familiar with the delight of a wake-up call. Really, it’s just a service that hotels usually offer, where you can call the front desk and ask for them to call you back at a certain time and wake you up. It’s nothing that your alarm clock can’t do, but I love it because it feels kind of glamorous.
But it’s definitely only something that you can ask for at a hotel. It is certainly not something that you can ask for from someone else on a phone—someone such as, say, 911. For one thing, I promise you they have better things to do with their time. For another thing, what are the chances that the same person will still be on shift once it’s time for you to wake up?