Clocks

[stoutfellow]

I am a clock person. I want some sort of chronometer within easy sight at almost all times. I have battery-driven clocks in the dining room, the living room, the computer room, and my bedroom. I also have a clock radio by my bed, and eight or so electronic devices with built-in clocks. Needless to say, this causes a bit of a headache at the time of transition to and from Daylight Time, although some of the electronic devices handle it automatically.

The problem with battery-driven clocks is, of course, that batteries run down. The various clocks are all at different points in their batteries' life-cycles, so it's easy to detect when one needs changing. The dining-room clock began running slow a few days back, so I got a new AA battery out and changed it.

Now it's running fast - very fast. Now what do I do? I can ignore it - the living-room clock is almost as easily visible from the kitchen - but there's something unesthetic about that solution. Or I could buy a new clock, but that offends my sense of thrift (mutant and stunted though it is).

Pfui.

Comments

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Don't want to waste it. But don't want to use it. That's a difficult one.

I know, what you need is a change in attitude toward it (g). Are you at all, like me, prone to lateness? If so, make Bad Clock your safety net. If you use *that* one when you must be on time or even a little early, you will be guaranteed to arrive promptly (allowing for timeliness of bus driver - waves to Robert). It will soon change, then, from the Miscreant to the Clock of Quirky Charm. Heh.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, it isn't just running a few minutes fast; that I could deal with. It's gaining time, at a rate of an hour or two per day. I can't see any way of extracting useful information from it.

[hornedhopper.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's the Clock From H*ll, all right. A couple of hours a day? Was it fine before you changed the battery? I don't know why I think it might work, but it might be worth changing batteries again. Just to see. If it was an expensive clock, is there anything like a clock repair shop in Eville?

OTOH, maybe filkferengi is on to something...you could be getting up BEFORE you went to bed (g).

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

It's not the battery; I tried changing it, and it's still gaining at a rate of about 8%. Something must be wrong with the works.

Well, I've had that clock for more than ten years...

[filkferengi]

That's what *you* think, she said smugly. Use it as the inspiration for a really funky time-travel story. Afaik, the story about someone who gains just an hour or two a day hasn't been done yet; the idea's all yours, so go for it!

Just inciting again. < weg >