I wore a wristwatch pretty much constantly, from around age 8, until 2020. I was always a bit obsessive about knowing what time it was, and not being late for appointments and meetings.
In 2020, as I was working at home during COVID, there was something about my watch constantly bumping against the edge of the laptop I was using for work at that time. I’d take it off while working, and eventually just stopped putting it back on.
I still have several wristwatches which I like, and have considered getting new batteries put into them and starting to wear them again, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet, which probably says something about the lack of importance to them in my everyday life now.
My very favorite sandwich, which i often make when I’m traveling, is a baguette cut in half with some sliced salami on one half. Just those two ingredients. (I usually also buy some cheese, and separately eat cheese on another chunk of the bread.) But just some crusty bread with some nice salami on top is a GREAT sandwich.
Turkey sandwiches are far superior to any others mentioned in this thread, as are analog watches.
(I’ve worn a watch every day for as long as I can remember. I’m wearing one in my 8th grade graduation picture. Sometimes digital, but mostly analog. I went through a smartwatch phase from 2013-2018, and briefly revisited it in 2020, but these days I’m strictly analog. I don’t wear one – or any jewelry – just around the house, but I don’t remember the last time I walked out my front door without a watch on; even if I’m just running an errand.)
Honestly, I frequently add bacon when I make that sandwich at home (which makes it very close to a club sandwich), but I figured that would be really stretching the definition of “common add-ons”.
I chose alternate, even though i wear the same watch every day. I travel a lot and wear a watch with analog face and digital inset that can display the local time.
I also spend a lot of time in meetings where phones aren’t available or pulling one out is likely to kill momentum. Casually glancing at my wrist is critical if i need to know how im doing on time.
In my jobs I was absolutely required to wear a watch for a long time. Report writing required the precise time events occurred. My part time army job required me to know the time at all times. I always had some kind of Ironman watch. Then I started using a smartphone more and more and found little need to have a watch. Until I retired from the Army I would still wear a watch in the field because coverage was sometimes spotty but that was the only time I did. I have a couple of semi-fancy watches I can wear when I dress up.
My watch died, and i tried going without for a while. I found it really annoying to have to pull my phone out of my pocket to check the time. Especially if i was heading to the twin station, and wanted to know if i had to trot it off i could amble.
Now that i work from home and have clocks around the house and can leave my phone visible as i work, it’s not as big a deal. But i have no sense of time at all. If i want to know what time it is, i need to look at something.
I also set a lot of little alarms when i cook, so i don’t forget to turn down the heat under the rice, etc.
Put on my best running shoes, go out to meet the mentally disturbed man, chat him up from a distance, smartphone in hand, get ready to run off if need be.
I might call for a welfare check, either the local mental health outreach or the non-emergency police line. I’m certainly not going to think of or call the person a whacko. Last week, when this happened outside a bagel shop, I gave the person bagels. If she’d been waving a knife, my response would be different. One of my neighbor children is on the spectrum. He’s usually in his house, but when the weather is nice, he’s often pacing the sidewalk between the houses on tiptoe, making the same vocalizations repeatedly. Not a whacko.
Our country is disturbingly lacking in compasskion and fellow-feeling these days. I’m not going to contribute to that.
As to whether i would go outside and see if i can help, you haven’t given enough information. Does he look angry? Frightened? Like he’s trying to contact someone? Does he look disoriented?
I’m a woman. I probably wouldn’t approach him if he looks angry and/or disoriented. But if he looks like he’s calling out to someone, or asking for help, i probably would.
As for whacko- it depends- broad daylight? Not much. Dark out? Call the police, non-emergency line.
I wear a analog watch. I have a funny story- One place i worked, they had two business news channels going in the wide hallway that had the coffee maker, sink, fridge, etc.
Some young guys were watching it when an Apple watch commercial came on. One said- “yeah, that would be handy, I get tired of getting my phone out of my pocket everytime I want to know what time it was.” I just made a bit of a show of looking at my wristwatch. They didnt get it.
Other: I’d put the dog on a leash and go out with the dog to talk to him. I might or might not call a neighbor first.
I’m a woman; and old. I also live on a dead end road. The chances that somebody shouting in the road either is a neighbor or is associated with a neighbor would be good, though not certain. We get lost tourists from time to time.
