So my mom and brother went to a church auction yesterday. They came home with this clock. It came in a mostly blue box with a white clock on the front that had blue trim. I thought, 'Oh, cool! A clock for my room!' I take it upstairs and open the box to try and figure it out. First thing I notice is that it's not white with blue trim. It's black with that weird creamish trim you see in 60's stuff. I think, 'Okay, not what I was expecting, but still cool.' I take it out and see if there's a sheet of instructions with it, because it's a CHURCH auction and most stuff at church auctions are crap. Fortunately, there is instructions.
I didn't read them. I just started figuring out the clock.
I take off the back and see that there are 3 battery openings. They look slim and long. I figure that they fit AAAs. So I went downstairs and got 3 AAA batteries. I pop them in and then I see there's a fourth hole. So back I go for the 4th AAA. I pop them all in and see that I didn't take into account that the holes are LONG. AAAs are not long enough. So I look in the instruction sheet and it said I needed SUM-3 batteries. I growled and decided to decipher how to make it record messages, because it plays a voice recording when the alarm goes off. You apparently need a microtape.
... a whatenwho?
I'm sure we have those in the house, but... I keep forgetting that this thing has that weird 60's cream color... so... yeah. I have a clock here that may or may not work, a need for four SUM-3 batteries (that you probably can't pick up at the local WallMart), four AAA batteries, and a rather upset self, who wants to wake up to the sound of Grimmjow laughing like a madman.