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My first confrontation with alarm watches was when I spotted a colleague of mine wearing one. In fact, spotted would not be the right term. I actually heard that confounded specie people call alarm watches. At first I frantically checked my phone and my beeper to make sure that the sound wasn’t coming from the. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that it could be coming from alarm watches. How could I? At that point, I wasn’t even aware of the existence of alarm watches.
Anyways, after witnessing me hopping around like a monkey in heat and having a loud guffaw, my colleague finally condescended to reveal that the sound was emanating from his wrist. I could not believe what I was hearing. Was it not sufficient that one had to content with alarm clocks at home? Did one also have to content with alarm watches now? Apparently this colleague of mine found alarm watches a useful contraption. He claimed that these alarm watches helped him track his time better. Each time he wanted or needed to remind himself about an appointment, all he needed to do was to fiddle around with the watch and he could set it to go off and remind him at the appointed hour. Why someone with a cell phone, a beeper and a PDA still needed to rely on alarm watches was beyond me, but I wasn’t about to argue with someone who brandished alarm watches in the first place.
Call it fate or a more fine tuned perception, but since that fateful day when I set my eyes on alarm watches, I continue to see alarm watches wherever I go. They sound off while I am in the lift, in the cafeteria queue and even in the men’s room. It seems like there is no way to avoid alarm watches anymore.
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