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by talldatethrow 915 days ago
I've been wearing the same watch that doesn't work for 10 years.

I went to change the battery years ago, took it out, and never ordered one. It has never bothered me once. The watch looks just as nice, and it usually takes GFs many weeks to realize it's not working. And that's only because it's set to 11:11 which is a common cliche meme type time that girls like. (Yes I set it to that on purpose for a girl once)

A watch is basically a form of acceptable male jewelry. It still acts as jewelry if it doesn't tell time.

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Right, but my point is that I want to be able to look at my wrist to tell the time, so if my nice watches stopped working, I’d have to either shell out money for a new nice one, switch to a less nice one, or just accept having to look at my phone for the time. Any of which I would find annoying.
Awesome. What a great story.