XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10   
   From: daniel47@nomail.afraid.org   
      
   On 23/01/2026 7:24 am, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2026/1/22 8:55:19, Daniel70 wrote:   
   >> On 22/01/2026 7:10 am, Andy Burns wrote:   
   >>> Daniel70 wrote:   
   >>>> Chris wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> What house in any decent area doesn't have jewellery?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Mine .... but then, I don't have a Misses, either! ;-P   
   >>> A nice watch?   
   >>>   
   >> Who needs a Watch .... when I've got my 'phone'?? ;-P   
   >   
   > I can glance at my wrist (cheap blue plastic CASIO - had it for   
   > years)   
      
   Almost forty years ago, my mother gave me a fancy Wristwatch for my 21st   
   Birthday and, about a fortnight later, I made the mistake of wearing it   
   during Rifle Drill (I was in the Army) and scratched the hell out of the   
   glass face .... so that was the end of wearing my watch, at least for   
   part of my TIME .... especially as I worked in an Army Communications   
   Station .... so there were clocks all over the place.   
      
   > far more quickly than I could at a 'phone, if I had one (and both my   
   > hands are free, too).   
      
   About fifteen years later (early 90's, I think), I was travelling down   
   Major Highway to see Family .... and my Car broke down .... so it was a   
   couple of kilometres (each way) walk to the "Roadside Assistance" phone.   
      
   Soon after, I brought my first Mobile Phone.   
      
   > Plus, if I _had_ a smartphone, I'd presumably mostly be doing   
   > something with it (if not, why have one?),   
      
   For EMERGENCIES!! RE-read my last para!! ;-)   
      
   > so would have to change/minimise to see the clock (or peer at tiny   
   > digits along the edge of the display).   
      
   Having been in the Army, where you could get into trouble for not being   
   where you are supposed to be WHEN you are supposed to be there .... so I   
   usually have my Car clock set three to five minutes fast .... you know.   
   just in case!! (even having been out of the Army over thirty years)   
   --   
   Daniel70   
      
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