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Bet your watch can’t do that

JwRosenthal
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My wife has a great collection of watches from teeny vintage cocktail watches up to her Marathon Navigator and everything in between- she also has her Fitbit.
I was sitting in the living room and got a text asking if I could bring her more toilet paper from the basement...she didn’t have her phone, she texted me from her watch.
As much as I hate technology, using a smart watch to bail you out of no tee-pee just proves how useless analog watches truly are. I am sad now.
 
Canuck
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Does your lady know you posted this anecdote on a public forum? Sheesh! My wife doesn’t have a FitBit. But given the same circumstances, I’m sure she’d find a way. 😉
 
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Does your lady know you posted this anecdote on a public forum? Sheesh! My wife doesn’t have a FitBit. But given the same circumstances, I’m sure she’d find a way. 😉
She always raises an eyebrow when I go to the scatological in conversation, but she knew going in that it’s who I am- everybody poops- it’s a commonality we can all get behind ::rimshot::
 
apsm100
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If she was wearing a memovox she could have just set off the alarm a few times to get your attention. 😜
 
Walrus
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A month or so prior to covid I was at a local grocery store and there were five employees near the registers comparing and trying to match “circles” or something like that on their Apple watches. They explained it was some kind of fitness tracker that they use as competition. They were all lol and what not. Much beyond a couple watch geeks examining patina.
 
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She always raises an eyebrow when I go to the scatological in conversation, but she knew going in that it’s who I am- everybody poops- it’s a commonality we can all get behind

I try to only speak about my own poops.

I said try.
 
vintage hab
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Technology is overrated: she could have just yelled like we used to do in the old days.
 
JwRosenthal
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vintage hab vintage hab
Technology is overrated: she could have just yelled like we used to do in the old days.
What’s funny is that she knows text is the best way to get me as I always have the stereo going. She’ll even text me from the next room rather than try yelling.
 
vintage hab
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What’s funny is that she knows text is the best way to get me as I always have the stereo going. She’ll even text me from the next room rather than try yelling.
Texting is certainly the only way to reach my teenagers, even when in the house. Trying to reach then on the phone is useless: first you text them that you’ll be calling, then maybe they pick up
 
MtnMarine
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This is the exact reason why I wear mechanical watches only.
Plus that’s a great time to re wind....haha
 
High Hope
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When texting/internet was new we had v successful friends. She told my now ex-wife that her husband texted her FROM THE CAR that she needed her son down and ready for SCHOOL NOW! I couldn’t believe it, I didn’t even have a cellphone !
 
Mad Dog
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@JwRosenthal...your wife gets a big, fat “F” for prior planning...always, always, always make sure you have enough TP. She should have known [and planned] better...way better. My work is done here. 😁
 
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As much as I hate technology, using a smart watch to bail you out of no tee-pee just proves how useless analog watches truly are. I am sad now.

Maybe true but the following quote, often attributed to Einstein, comes to mind;-

"if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
 
JwRosenthal
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@JwRosenthal...your wife gets a big, fat “F” for prior planning...always, always, always make sure you have enough TP. She should have known [and planned] better...way better. My work is done here. 😁
I keep a roll in the car- always be prepared
 
BlackTalon
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In my house we would just yell. Don't need no stinkin' watch to call for TP.
 
gbesq
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Yeah, those smart watches are great. Remember when Armstrong and Aldrin were pooping in the Lunar Module wearing their smart watches? Oh, wait a minute...
 
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@JwRosenthal...your wife gets a big, fat “F” for prior planning...always, always, always make sure you have enough TP. She should have known [and planned] better...way better. My work is done here. 😁
We’re talking about people who don’t even remember to make sure the seat is down before sitting...
 
BlackTalon
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No. But I do remember hearing something about Speedmasters and some sort of burning sensation for 15 seconds.
 
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@JwRosenthal...your wife gets a big, fat “F” for prior planning...always, always, always make sure you have enough TP. She should have known [and planned] better...way better. My work is done here. 😁

I have a feeling this convo approach would go over like a lead balloon. 😉
 
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We call them Poo Tickets in my neck of the woods.

Just like tickets but for.......

Poo tickets is always a giggle on the shopping list

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