I Don't wear a watch

I don’t wear a watch

Recently I was playing Video games with a very video proficient 9 year old. We were playing one of those inexpensive plug in to your video game of old Atari games. I relayed to my young playing companion that when I was young you could only play these in arcades and we would pump quarter after quarter into the machines. He looked at the poor quality of the graphics and the slow game play and turned to me with all the pity a 9 year old can muster and said “that is so sad”. BTW I kicked his ASS in Galaga, I kept two spaceships for most of the time. He insisted it was a cheat and after I beat him a few times he asked what other games I had. Take that

The point being that technology marches on and once in a while it destroys other technologies, we all know this, but sometimes the cultural effects of the heap bin of technology has a real impact. Hence my new discovery/observation - I don’t wear a watch. I carry my phone everywhere and it has a digital watch on the screen, it is a clamshell so I can see the time when it is closed. I recently lost an expensive watch, and when I say lost I mean my three year old hid it and now I can’t find it. I was never into the ‘ I need 5 watches’ thing and figured I saved a lot of money over the years by only having one nice watch. Upon gearing up for a replacement search, I had the revelation that perhaps, just maybe, I don’t need a watch. Why do I need two pieces of equipment that do the same thing?? I have been testing my observation the past few weeks having gone watchless. I feel liberated, almost naked without something I have wearing since high school. I no longer have to worry about where I left it the night before. I don’t have to take anything off before I do any manual labor. OK, so that did not happen that often, but it did happen once in a while!! More importantly I don’t miss it or feel the need to have one.

Now, what else can I get rid of????