So much better

[flexagon]

My watch is on my wrist & telling the right time again! It lost its little time-setter knob a few days ago (or sometime before DST, anyway) and I've been feeling off-kilter ever since. Finally, rather than pay $25 and wait four weeks for it to be sent off to Fossil and fixed, I asked the nice watch place to just set the damn thing for me. They did, and they didn't charge me either! So the problem has been pushed back.

The bad news: I'll be travelling between time zones at least 3 times between now and spring--uncomfortable when you can't set your watch. I don't consider it feasible to live without a watch for four weeks. And in that watch store I happened to see a beautiful Raymond Weil one in the sale case for half off... yes, half off of what?, you might ask with some suspicion. Half off $750, I would admit. Must resist. Next time I hear them say oh, just wander around the store for 15 minutes while we fix this I think I'll head out of the store for 15 minutes just to give my poor willpower a break.

(Edited to say: aw, damn, resisting evil just got easier. HLM reminded me that the place in Porter Sq did say they could do it overnight... so okay, I'll pump another $25 into this $60 watch that I'm sure I've now spent way over $100 on maintaining! I've gotten it a new crystal face, a few leather bands, a few batteries, and now this... it's like one of those philosophy questions about when we stop saying it's still the same watch! Ah well... I'm just amused at this whole entry now. I sure hope y'all care deeply about my watch situation, because now you know it intimately. Congratulations. :)

Comments

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[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

What is this "watch" thing you speak of? Oh, you mean a cell phone! I didn't realize they had them wearable on wrists already. How spiffy! ;-)

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[flexagon]

Do you not wear one? That's impressive... I don't know many people who don't.

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[bluechromis.livejournal.com]

I know more people who don't than do - but they all have cell phones and just use those for time keeping.

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[andycomment.livejournal.com]

It's a growing trend ... using cell phones as your watch too. I haven't had a watch in years.

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[webrat.livejournal.com]

I haven't worn a watch since I was a kid. If I really care what time it is... *holds up cellphone or points at the computer screen*

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[flexagon]

I still like watches... they're simple, decorative, & don't require a pocket. And the nice ones double as truly beautiful jewelery.

I don't see myself stopping wearing one when I get a cell.... though maybe this is something I will have to experience to understand.

[webrat.livejournal.com]

Not sure where your post went. :) Anyway, I'm not ganging up on you. Just chiming in that I use a cellphone too. Don't feel that your a luddite because cellphone batteries do die eventually and when they do, you can laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh. :)

[flexagon]

*grin* Deleted when I (almost immediately) realized I was being a sillyfetus, of course!

Watch batteries die too, but a helluva lot less often.

For the record, I did a poll of a few people in the lunchroom at work, and only 1 out of 8 used his cell as a watch. 3 didn't carry timepieces at all, and the other 4 had watches.

(I am now considering waiting for my tax refund, then buying that one I saw or one like it before putting the rest on the condo pile. It really was sooooo pretty.)