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    Default Wife reckons I lost her watch in the garbage

    Talk about having a bad hair day...

    Two days ago SWMBO left her nurses watch out on the kitchen bench for me to take down to the jewellers for a new battery. Forgot about the thing untill this afternoon when SWMBO enquired as to the whereabouts of her watch. After looking in the usual places we concluded that it must have got knocked off the bench and into the basket in which we put the rubbish for the recycling bin.....it looked like the watch might be sitting outside in the recycling bin.

    Went out to the workshop to finish off some jobs with a plan to ferret throught the recycling bin a bit later on. Eventually got hold of the bin and emptied the contents on the garage floor and proceded to pick through the huge pile of bottles, cans and cardboard..discovering why one should throughly clean sardine cans before dumping them in the bin.

    Couldnt find the watch, put all the rubbish back in the bin and went inside to break the news to SWMBO....only to get told that she already knew this....she'd gone through the bin about 10 minutes before I had.
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    Buy her a new watch; the old one is bound to turn up then

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    kiwigeo

    and your point is.............


    you have obviously lost time , dont get her a second hand one to replace it
    just watch yourself , dont get stressed as its too much strain on the old ticker
    and stay clear of her so she can't clock you
    otherwise its all relative




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    Quote Originally Posted by Rocker
    Buy her a new watch; Rocker
    Yep. That's the right plan of attack.

    The more expensive the better btw.

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    I don't have a watch. I just have the time written down on a piece of paper. When somebody asks me the time, i just show them that.
    Just suggest she does that - it's a cheap solution.
    If at first you don't succeed, give something else a go. Life is far too short to waste time trying.

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    You could try leaving SWMBO sitting on the bench, perhaps she will end up in the same place as the watch.
    If she disappears too you won't have to buy a new watch!

    Jack.
    "There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack E
    You could try leaving SWMBO sitting on the bench, perhaps she will end up in the same place as the watch.
    If she disappears too you won't have to buy a new watch!

    Jack.
    Jack THAT would be asking for a miracle!! (no offence meant)
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    Er..forgot to mention my wife found the watch......in her handbag :mad:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gumby
    I don't have a watch. I just have the time written down on a piece of paper. When somebody asks me the time, i just show them that.
    Just suggest she does that - it's a cheap solution.
    Might be a problem, when she has to take a patient's pulse....
    Whatever note you blow youre never more than a semitone away from the correct one....(Miles Davis)

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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwigeo
    Er..forgot to mention my wife found the watch......in her handbag :mad:
    So what excuse did YOU give for leaving it in there???????
    I try and do new things twice.. the first time to see if I can do it.. the second time to see if I like it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gumby
    I don't have a watch. I just have the time written down on a piece of paper. When somebody asks me the time, i just show them that.
    Just suggest she does that - it's a cheap solution.
    Yeh......I can imagine her checking some poor blokes pulse at work with a piece of paper

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    I've found the paper method very accurate:

    http://www.lares.dti.ne.jp/~yugo/sto.../03/index.html


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    Wish I read down the page a bit further before I spent 15 minutes trying to find that friggen hand clock link :mad:
    "I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to."

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    Quote Originally Posted by kiwigeo
    Er..forgot to mention my wife found the watch......in her handbag :mad:
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