Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 18, 2015

What a smart child to know of the Apple Watch.

And mine does not require batteries.

…and look! My phone makes phone calls.

Speical features of my “smart watch” … self-winding, minute hand, date window, and glows in the dark.

Got a phone that only tells time and makes calls.

tick tock tick tock tick tock…

Mine had the date in a little window at the 3 o’clock position. And I didn’t get one until I could tell the time, within a minute on a clock face with no numbers, just the two hands.

What watch? My phone tells me what time it is!

Flashback memory: I remember the day that Ma got sick and tired of me constantly asking her; “what time is it?” She sat my butt down in front of the ol’ Sessions mantel clock and told me (LOUDLY with cussing) to LEARN, dammit !! (to be kind, Ma wasn’t the calmest sort) and loosed a bunch more cussing.. A visiting neighbor took pity on the bawling kid (me) and so, demonstrated what ‘quarter ’tils’ were, ‘half-pasts’ were,and the tens and twenties of it all, but not the ‘whys’ and it took a few years later to learn about the earth being divided into 24 hours in 15-degree chunks and all the math that goes with it, so I have to laff when “The Big Bang Theory” (endlessly) runs the episode where Sheldon tries to explain ‘science’ to Penny..

Gramma’s watch probably cost $5 at WalMart,.and the Apple Watch is what, $400? Pluggers are thrifty.

Jonno: Back when I was the only Masters candidate in a seminar of Doctorals, the subject of wind-up watches came up. I mentioned I was wearing one, and set off a stampede of PhD wannabes to see this marvelous invention. The subject was the biochemistry of learning, not history of timepieces.

Does anyone know what time it is? Does anybody care? Chicago.

Redneck time check. It’s 10 o’clock. Do you know what time it is?