What time is it? A sign of the times

scene 1- In the mall, big music store, ask a twentyish young lady if she knows the time, knowing full well she would look at a cell phone to tell me. Yes she did.
scene 2- ask a lady, roughly my own age, in the bargains store, for the time, and she actually looked at her wrist, at a watch, to tell me.
Used to be, the hand gesture for tell me the time was pointing at your wrist, right? I have quit wearing my watch because I usually have the phone with me. Same for hubby. (Coincident, the dog ate my watchband )
Do you think wristwatches are an endangered species?

I still wear one - feel naked without it! LOL ... guess I'm telling my age, huh?

I don't have a cell phone and didn't even know they had time keepers on them.
I think men still wear watches, don't they?
I never wore a watch in the past and still don't. I do have a clock in the car that sort of keeps me informed when I am out. I usually see a clock somewhere when I am in a store.
At my age, I usually just know the time of day pretty closely being on this earth so long. LOL

I always use my watch....it is easier than trying to find my cell phone. Wait a few years they will probably have cell phones you wear like a watch !!!! Meem

My husband always wears a watch! We both have cell phones and even though I always wear a watch, I find myself flipping open my phone to check the time! LOL. I need my glasses to see my watch but the time on the phone is pretty large and I can read it without my glasses!

It's funny ... I don't need an alarm clock/radio to wake up in the morning. If I have an appointment or we are leaving for a trip at a certain time ... I just "tell myself" what time I want to wake up and I am up! Hubby still shakes his head at that!

I am 28 and never could wear watches. I'm part of an elite group who, given any watch, has a reaction to the battery and my energy actually will kill any watch battery in days. There are a few of us out there LOL like this and I've never researched the reasoning just gave up on watches.

I relied on wall clocks as you move room to room in the house, getting out to the car watching that clock, getting into your class: another clock, etc. Never needed to ask the time.

Nowadays I have a cell phone for the time when out and about so likely people would think I'm just up with the times I guess but really I can't wear a watch.

DH wears a watch, but it is removed as soon as he gets home and on the weekends. His feelings are that it frees him from being a slave to the clock and he can relax.
On vacation, we never worry about the time. Just get up when we want, eat when we want, etc. The funny thing is that it is usually exactly at the same time anyway. That internal clock in our bodies will not let us go.
Been off work for nearly 2 years now. And once, I slept in until 7am. Now that I don't have to get up at 6:30am, I am wide awake.
Soon as I am back to work, I will be dragging myself out of bed. LOL

Now I must admit, I am a clock watcher! Even at night ... I wake up and must know what time it is! I haven't worked in 15 years and hubby has a clock radio on his side of the bed so he isn't late for work. If I didn't have a clock I would be up going to find one to see the time! LOL ... my mother used to tell me that there was some hidden reason behind my having to see the time! When on vacation or visiting friends and family, I plug my cell phone in next to the bed, if there is no clock, and I look at it during the night. I have to see what time it is!?**%%/!! Weird. Maybe I need a psychoanalyst, LOL. I think it's just habit.

I don't wear a watch, either. Used to work around high-powered magnets, and after frying a few watches, I quit wearing one. Last time I tried, I scratched the face a mess, doing barn chores & riding the horses...

I'll look for the closest wall clock, or pull out my cell phone.

I am sooo technology challenged! My husband is the technical one and he got us both new cell phones with camera's a couple of years ago. I took a picture once with it! And, I think I text messaged my niece once - I don't need all that stuff ... just the phone is all I care about. ... oh, and the clock on the phone! :)

Okay, you got me. I do not wear a watch anymore. It's because of the cell. I also have a reaction to the back of the watch. I would get a rash every summer. I would paint it with clear nail polish and...no problem, so that's wasn't why. I stopped wearing a watch about two years ago. I have to have the latest thing in technology but so far have not been able to afford them! LOL $500 for a phone?!?!?!?! I don't think so!

I find my cell phones having glitches after 2/3 years anyhow. Currently have a razor which doesn't measure to the hype. It's okay but perhaps it's the carrier (Cingular) but sometimes the phone quality just isn't great. Loved my Sprint service but not available here.

When I worked I wore a watch just for daytime. When I had a baby, I started wearing it all night too, to record feeding times. and because I can't see past my nose without glasses or contacts. Then I wore a watch day and night for about fifteen years, at-home-mom, even though I was near clocks in the house, and a clock in the vehicle. Now that I've been caught twice shopping without my phone, I guess I should get that watchband replaced LOL

Our cells get' free'upgrades every couple of years included in the plan. Luckily I didn't need or want my last upgrade, and my daughter got it to replace the one that went into the pool with her!!

Mine went into le toillette one day about 4 months ago. It works okay but it has issues now and then. I had a back-up then.

Oh, I am so glad to hear I am not the only one with "cell phone tragedies"! LOL. A couple of years ago I was heading out to run errands, had mail on the seat of the car to put in the mailbox (our mailboxes are at the corner). My cell phone was on the seat with the mail (which I didn't realize at the time) and when I drove up to the mailbox, I opened the door to get out, grabbed the mail and swung around to get out of the car ... cell phone was mixed in with mail and apparently went flying out the window - I never saw it! I went about running my errands and at some point went to look for my phone and couldn't find it ... figured I had forgotten it and left it at home. Got home and searched and couldn't find it, looked all over the car thinking it must have fallen under the seat or something. Started backtracking and thinking about the sequence of the day. Walked down to the mailboxes thinking "Could I have possibly dropped it, or put it in the mailbox with the mail?" (I am older, and blonde) ... well, there was the cell phone in the middle of the street ... it had been run over and squashed - probably numerous times! Needless to say, I had to get a new phone.

I did "almost" fall into the pool once while walking around, talking to my sister on the phone and playing with plants by the pool at the same time.

We ALL do it, Plantlady! LOL

hubby dropped his in the sump pump pit. I don't know in general, but this one was very much NOT water-resistant. He's bad at things falling out of shirt pocket. you think he'd learn....

Bet he didn't go after that one! LOL

well, yeah, just the sump for the foundation drainage...plus he's pretty 'thrifty'. Pus the hassle of losing the phone and numbers in it.
My smarty pants brother has lost three phones. But he can afford to lose them bette r than I can.

Funny, I was just thinking this the other day-and I am not a spring chicken! I always check my cell and don't like wearing any jewelry really. I have 4 nice Seiko watches that the batteries ran down and I never got them replaced because I can just look at my cell. I think that watches are more than on the way, they are out! But then common sense doesn't rule the fashion industry, so they will keep trying to push every accessory.

Older folks still like watches!

Growing up neither of my parents ever wore watches.

Makes me feel old...have watches to match my outfits..yuk..perhaps I'd better get different colored cel. phone cases...

Too funny, you know I had a cell phone for a year before I realized you could just look at the phone for the time.
I would ask someone else and they would flip open their phone. Then I would have to smack myself up on the head and say "duh"

lol...signs of the times right..

cactuspatch, maybe it's something about New Mexico. I also don't like to wear much jewelry and prefer cell phone to watches. I have at least one watch sitting around waiting for a battery. Not to mention that every clock in our house has a different time. Kitchen clock is 10 minutes fast. Clock in my studio loses time. The rest are variations on these two.

Maybe?? I think I also do it because in the garden I don't want to get a nice watch messy, plus my vision is not improving and I would need a large face to read a watch. My clocks are all correct though. Mainly because 3 that I rely on are on the cable boxes so they are automatically correct. I adjust the one on the microwave. My studio is for quilting and sewing, are you a painter?

Another reason I like the cell phone clock is that it is always in sync with whatever tower you are near. So when I travel I don't have to adjust a watch. I just know what time it is where I am! I can remember people thinking it was a disgrace for kids not to learn to tell time by an old style clock. I guess that doesn't really matter now either?

I still have a dial telephone too. I have to show people how to use that one. LOL
If they insist, I will get out one with buttons for them.

I don't think it applies to just you folks living in N.M. I also don't like to wear jewelry of any kind and I don't wear a watch--of course the fact that I am allergic to gold may have something to do with that. LOL

LOL cparts!!!!!!

Well, can you believe, I'm allergic to silver! So, there you have it. Cactuspatch, yes, I'm a painter. But I don't have a digital camera yet. I just got my first cell phone in 2007. Technologically challenged. Kids don't have to tell time on a clock nor do they have to tie shoelaces because they're all velcro now! We have an old dial phone in the kitchen and kids don't know how to use it. Ha!

Their shoes are all velcro now??? News to me. I remember in like 4th grade having a pair of velcro shoes and being horrified to wear them because everyone else was wearing laces. LOL.

I think they all wear velcro athletic shoes now. You were a trend setter! Cool.

I still wear a watch whenever I'm not at home. I usually have the cell phone with me, but it's just easier to look at my watch. DH doesn't wear any jewelry, so no watches for him. His family has this weird thing about always knowing what time it is....they just know, usually within 5-15 minutes. Any of them can wake up and just know what time it is. I'm not like that at all. I lose track of time soooo easily.

TNN, my Mom also had that same problem with her "energy" and watches. She never could find a watch battery that wouldn't burn out in a couple of days....so she resorted to a wind-up watch. That was a good 20 yrs ago and it was very hard to find one then. I wonder if they are still made now?

Ok, here's another flashback on watches....who remembers the Swatch Watches? LOL!! That was such a big thing when I was a kid. Yes, I wore more than one watch at a time. Oh, I thought I looked so cool. Four watches stacked up my arm, all of them with plastic bands. LMBO!

wind up, are those called kinetic watches? my dh has one but i gave up years ago.

Heathrjoy, my grandfather was a creature of habit. He ALWAYS did the same thing at the same time every day. I kid you not! You didn't need a watch when he was around--all you had to do was watch what he was doing. If you knew his schedule, then when he went outside on the front porch to smoke a cigar in the morning you would know it was 11 a.m., etc. Same thing in the evening, after supper--he would have a little "toddy" for "medicinal purposes" every night at 8 p.m. LOL His internal clock was programmed for those times. I guess if he ever went visiting in another time zone, his "clock" had to be re-set!! LOL

Nope, not a kinetic watch. I looked them up because I didn't know what they were. They use weights inside the watch that move as you move your wrist....this movement in the watch creates electricity. Cool, but not what I was talking about.

A wind up watch is mechanical. You wind it every morning....or once a week, whatever. It will stop if you don't wind it. When you wind it you are winding up a spring.

Here's a neat article on watches...it talks some about wind up watches but mostly about quartz watches and crystals in watchmaking.
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/quartz-watch.htm

I remember swatch watches. My DD had some. My husband's last watch was kinetic. My sister can't wear watches because of the energy thing, so I understand that too! I love silver and have many allergies,but I lucked out and didn't get that allergy.

Roybird, we would love to see some of your paintings. Do you have an online gallery?

My favorite watch is an older Seiko Mickey Mouse. Of course,he needs a new battery.

Thx heathrjoy! DH has a Seiko kinetic. Didn't know about the wind-up options.

I had pierced ears in 4th grade and often slept in earrings, no problems. Now as an adult I can no longer wear any costume earrings, they cause infection. :(