Hot drinks and alarm clocks

I have finally discovered that hot drinks and alarm clocks are not useless.  It's taken me a while to discover this—maybe that I now know they actually have a use is an indication that I'm growing old—but here are my proposed uses.

Hot drinks are for the purpose of making stomachs think they're full when they're not.  This is useful when hunger pangs strike with one and a half hours to go before tea time, or when boredom eating attempts to kick in.  At least, it WOULD be useful if I could remember that hot drinks are for that sort of occasion BEFORE I scoff sultanas (remembering AFTER is no good at all).  Never mind, though.  Sultanas don't need waiting for and won't burn tongues (I haven't burnt my tongue on a hot drink that I remember, but it should be possible).

And alarm clocks are to wake people up.  Yes, I know, what's the use of that?  Well, I think reading is best done in the early morning, because everyone else is asleep (and therefore quiet!) and normally my brain is totally empty at that time unless I've had a vivid dream.  However, I don't have an alarm clock, and with five other people in the house using one would be pretty dangerous if it was set to six thirty.  I'll just have to make do with half an hour to an hour of reading in the morning, then, unless I discover a way to naturally wake up at six thirty or seven—between five and six would really be the ideal, but that's not going to happen at present.

So, there you are.  Hot drinks are to stop binge eating and alarm clocks are to enable reading at a respectable rate.