I am reminded of a joke, which I shall inflict on you, if you don't mind, because I've never seen a more perfect occasion for it:
A college professor has trouble with one of his students, who is constantly late for morning classes. The student says that he has trouble waking up in the mornings, so the professor suggests he buy an alarm clock. Well, after a while, the student's punctuality improves, so one day the professor says to him, "Good to see you getting in on time these days." "Yes," the student responds, "I've been waking up much earlier since I got my new parrot." "A parrot, young man! I told you to get an alarm clock!" "Alarm clocks just don't seem to work on me," the student explains. "But now I've got this parrot. And what the parrot says when the alarm clock wakes him up is enough to wake up ANYBODY."