Earlier this morning (at 10.35am to be precise) I glanced at my ‘El Cheapo Cost Ten Bucks Bought In a Discount Store Very Ordinary and All of That’ watch that has graced my wrist for the last four years or so.
And I remarked to myself at the time (10.35 am to be precise, remember) what good value this watch has given me. It’s never missed a tick and while I’ve gone through a ‘faux leather’ band or two in the interim, it’s been a bloody good watch all in all.
Coming up towards our lunch-break (at 12.30pm) I checked my watch again.
It said 10.55.
I tapped it and shook it and it still said 10.55. I took it off and picked and plucked at the winder and gave it a good talking to and it still said 10.55.
Moral to the story…if you are going to thank your lucky stars about something, make sure you ‘touch wood’ otherwise the ‘something’ will fuck right up pretty soon after.
Along the same lines. The guy that I used to teach with flew out of town once sans wrist watch. Hey, shit happens. So the next day he goes to K-Mart and buys a watch. BTW this was maybe 20-25 years ago now.
Anyway he sets el-cheap-o to the correct time, and date and off we go. The next afternoon the watch has stopped. It is pinning for the fjords. It is an ex-watch. It is DEAD.
My buddy assumes that it is because it spent so much time in the display case that the battery was on it last legs, and life support when he bought it the day before.
Just his luck he figures, and sets out to pull the back off to replace the battery. When he gets the back off the watch, he discovers that it is not a battery powered watch but rather a manual wind watch that he forgot to wind.
:smack:
He kept that watch for many years after that, winding it every day, even though he did not wear it. He did this as a reminder to never assume.
