Do you wear a wristwatch? Why? [View all]

There are clocks everywhere. Your cellphone is a watch, among other things. There is a clock displayed on the dash of your car. Your microwave has a clock. So do your TV, your laptop computer, your kitchen stove, your VCR if you still use one, many of the appliances in your house. There are clocks on the wall all over the place. Your bank displays time and temperature as you drive by. What does anybody need a watch for any more? They seem completely redundant to me. Yet lots of people still wear them.

I haven't worn a watch since 1989, when I inherited one from a recently deceased uncle. Relatives who were raiding his belongings held his watch for me because they knew I didn't wear one. They didn't know that the reason I didn't wear one was because I didn't want one. The things are just useless dead weights on my wrist. Still, I suddenly had that one, so I wore it until it stopped working -- which didn't take long. An old-fashioned spring-driven wind-up watch. They told me it was a nice one, expensive and well-crafted. But when it stopped working, I didn't care. The things are totally useless to me.

In the words of the immortal Linda Richman of Saturday Night Live fame, I've given y'all a topic, now, discuss!

-- Ron