🇿🇦 South Africa 2d ago · Sonja Brown

The 4am unnatural alarm clock

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The 4am unnatural alarm clock
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My mother asked me one morning how I cope when my neighbour‘s son owns the loudest broken car known to humanity. And this after staying over for one night.



Agreed, there are certain universal alarm clocks: roosters, church bells, babies. And then there is my neighbour’s son’s car.



It does not merely start. It announces itself. Every morning at 4am sharp, I am woken by the sound of what can only be described as a wounded tractor being strangled by a leaf blower.



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