Watching the watches

[wellinghall]

[Poll #1748787]

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[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I have two watches - a small wrist watch given to me by MIL because the aunt who left it to her had ridiculously small wrists like mine, and a small gold pocket watch on a gold link chain which is exactly the right length to bang the watch into any table I happen to sit at, which I was given for my BA graduation and (possibly as a result of too many tables) does not keep very good time. I wear the wrist watch most workdays when I remember to put it on in the morning, but I often forget because I never wore a watch until I got this one. (I used to joke that I knew where every clock visible from the street in Oxford was - parking metre, building society window, etc.)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

It's no joke, this is how I operate (and my father before me).

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

Indeed, and if the time ever comes when I don't have to catch trains, give talks to people, etc. I will probably abandon watch wearing and return to my old ways. Though this watch is now an object of sentimental value, and the omnipresence of mobile phones does mean one often has a time-piece when out and about anyway.