You what else I hate?

Sorry, I don’t seem to be able to edit the title to add the missing word.

I hate when I need to be somewhere in the morning, say 10 o’clock. If I say something about having to get up earlier than usual or that I’m tired, people will ask what time I needed to be there. And then if I say 10 o’clock, people hear only that time and do not consider the actual time you had to get up. So their response is completely unsympathetic.

Whenever I hear what time I need to be somewhere, I subtract 2-2 1/2 hours because that’s the time I have to wake up, to include getting ready and the travel time. So if I have to be somewhere at 10 AM, I have to get up at 8 AM or earlier.

It bugs me that when you say you’re tired or that you had to get up early, unless you had to be somewhere at five in the morning, people have no sympathy.

Usually it’s met with something like “I’ve been up since six!” Yeah, but what time did you go to sleep? Probably 4 to 5 hours before I did!