Daylight Savings Time... :'(

[etgadsby]

I’m with you! The last watch I got came broken…

I use my cell phone instead it tells me the time, annoys me in others ways, and my job makes me wear it at all times!  

[B'rrr]

hmmmm.... I kinda lost my last cellphone too, lol, I'm a loser ; ) ....ehh I mean I lose a lot. *phew*

I found my phone later... but it was already locked, and i haven't unlocked it since... it's kind of relaxing (no phones), but sometimes it's not really practical ; \

[Yonkey]

LOL "loser"  That's the first time I ever saw it being used in its proper context.  

Can't you get the phone unlocked?  Maybe you'll have to call the phone company and say you "forgot" the code.  They'll ask for some ID of course, then they should reset it, no problem.  

[B'rrr]

I don't think I could unlock it, because it is not registerd (i had prepaid). I needed a new phone anyway because my old one was getting a bit.... old.

...so guess i just buy another one (which i can lose again ; ) lol, everyone is bugging me to get a new phone.

[etgadsby]

You want mine?

It’ll ring at winy people will ask you to run fix stuff… ok some of the people I work for are really nice but sometimes the whole run and fix stuff gig puts me in a bad mood sometimes… sorry I know I’m “sharing” again…

[B'rrr]

naww.... you can keep it ; ) ...it is bad anough that i get email from ppl that wants my help... don't want any calls ; )

[B'rrr]

yeah, the sim is locked.... and i lost my pukcode ; (... it is prepaid so it isn't registerd either ; (

[copycat]

yeah, the sim is locked.... and i lost my pukcode ; (... it is prepaid so it isn't registerd either ; (

In that case I think no-one can unlock your SIM-card. And ofcourse a prepaid card isn't registered, that's why it's prepaid!

[Storm]

The sun comes up at about the same time as it did the day before, it's just our perception of time that has been altered.

Yeah, I know... but if my preception says I go to sleep at 5am, I like the fact that it's still dark  

I used my cellphone to tell the time when I lost my watch... the only problem was that during tests you're not allowed to have your cellphone around, and I couldn't tell how much time I had left  

[Yonkey]

I always wear my watch and the only time I take it off is when I go to bed.  Usually it's kept around the same place as my glasses so I never lose it in the morning either.

I would so be lost without a watch.  I hate not knowing what time it is.  

[Mary Jane]

I've felt naked ever since my watch's batteries died and they couldn't get it to work again.

[copycat]

I always wear my watch and the only time I take it off is when I go to bed.  Usually it's kept around the same place as my glasses so I never lose it in the morning either.

I would so be lost without a watch.  I hate not knowing what time it is.  

You even wear your watch when you're taking a shower/batch?
I don't have that much space left on my badside 'table' (due to the fluffly animals located and my radio alarm clock), so the watch is right beside my glasses at night (and also when I take a bath).
I've become very accustomed to using my watch to tell time, (even when there's a big clock available, like at work). So I would also be very lost. I'd keep checking my wrist, expecting to find a watch.

[Yonkey]

Heh, I was considering writing that I remove it when I have a shower as well, but I thought that was obvious.    Actually, this watch says it can withstand 330 feet underwater, so technically I could if I really wanted to.

[Jeysie]

I'm actually allergic to the metal in watches, so I have a clip-on watch instead. In winter I keep it clipped to my coat hood string, and the rest of the year I keep it clipped to either my belt pack, or to my belt loop when I wear jeans. There's more than enough clocks at both my house and my job, so I generally just need my watch while travelling. I take the bus everywhere, so having a watch is pretty crucial.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[Oldbushie]

I have a pocket watch, really a regular watch with one of the bands removed. I have kind of the same problem as you, Jeysie, metal seems to irritate my skin if I wear it for a long time.

[copycat]

I take the bus everywhere, so having a watch is pretty crucial.

Do you mean the buses in America always run in time? In Belgium they rarely do, but you need to know which time it is ofcourse, in order to make sure you're 10 minutes ahead of the scheduled time, so you could wait upto 25 minutes after the appointed time for the bus to arrive. That's actually the timeframe in which a bus could arrive at the bus stop you're at.

BTW, IIRC there's also watches in a sort of metal that isn't supposed to irritate the skin at all.

[Jeysie]

I only wish the buses here ran on time. Actually, it's not even that, it's the fact that they're inconsistent that's annoying as heck. I mean, if they were at least consistently late, I could still work around it.

Having a watch still is useful, though. Around my neck of the woods, the "lead time" depends on which bus you're taking, where you're getting it from, *and* even what time of the day you're taking it. The bus I take to and from work has about a 15 minute lead time from the closest schedule point. One bus I used to take from my old job had about a 5 minute lead going up, and about a 10 minute lead going back. Still another bus for still another job was more like 20 minutes. (I hated taking that bus, it was always hideously late. )

On average though, I just try to be at my pickup point at the time the bus should be reaching the nearest scheduled pickup point before where I am. Does mean having to wait around for a while, but at least I usually never miss the bus.

And it's still better than the bus in my hometown. The buses there actually were usually consistent (the bus driver to my college was consistently 10 minutes late ). The schedule itself was awful, though... the most frequent buses only ran every hour, and only from 7AM to about 5PM, plus the coverage was spotty for anywhere except the major ports. Needless to say, I walked a lot as a kid.

As for the watch thing... there are some watches even that have a cloth band running under the watch metal, for instance. But I don't really care for the feel of things around my wrist, anyway. Plus I don't have to worry about my watch getting wet when I wash my hands, or having it press into my skin when I have my wrists resting on a table or that sort of thing.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[copycat]

And it's still better than the bus in my hometown. The buses there actually were usually consistent (the bus driver to my college was consistently 10 minutes late ). The schedule itself was awful, though... the most frequent buses only ran every hour, and only from 7AM to about 5PM, plus the coverage was spotty for anywhere except the major ports. Needless to say, I walked a lot as a kid.

The buses in this town, when I was going to high school, were usually quite consistent too (don't remember how many minutes late they were). Of I took the bus to high school I was at least half an hour early at school, and the bus home only left 30 minutes after school was ended. Also, there was only a bus every two hours, and particularly when there were exams that was really annoying. Needless to say I soon discovered the joy of using my bike to traverse the 9 kms to and 9 kms from.

[Jeysie]

That reminds me of my last few months of high school... I had detention up to my neck from all the classes I had skipped, and had been put in a foster home for my truancy to boot, one that was some distance from the school. You're not allowed to take the "late bus" if you have detention, and I got out of detention just as the younger kids at my foster home were getting out of school, so they had priority for getting a ride home (since I think they were out of free busing range or something). So I ended up walking from my school to the foster home 40 minutes every day, since there was no suitable public bus at the proper time, and I had no money anyway.

Then there was the time where I had a job where I also had to walk 40 minutes to and from because it was a 6PM to midnight shift when the buses had long since stopped running, and my mom couldn't drive me because she needed to get up at 4AM each day. And I worked there during the winter months, too.

I actually usually don't mind walking... anything up to an hour is fair game to me. But I hate walking at night, or in the cold. That's the only part of my trip to NYC I didn't really like... I literally spent almost a day total walking, all of it in the cold, and some of it at night.

Peace & Luv, Liz

[copycat]

I actually usually don't mind walking... anything up to an hour is fair game to me. But I hate walking at night, or in the cold. That's the only part of my trip to NYC I didn't really like... I literally spent almost a day total walking, all of it in the cold, and some of it at night.

I don't mind walking either. I don't mind riding the bike as long as there's not many elevations up and down. The down-ones are nice, but the up-ones are not. If I'm not in a big city, or another place that can be unsafe at night, I don't mind walking at that time. As long as I don't have to stay out in the cold, and I have sufficient body protection for the cold, I see no problem either. However, rain is never nice walking or riding your bike in. My maximum for riding a bike is also about an hour, so I could never make the +40km-trip to work in that time.