Back in high school, I had a nice watch. It was Indiglo and my love for it was such that I wrote a speech about it in the 9th grade and won the speech award due to its brilliance. Sadly, the indiglo did not last too long. I’m tough on watches and they never seem to stay around as long as I’d like.
Due to this fact, I stopped spending more than $10 on watches. I would only buy them from Target or Wal-Mart and even then they wouldn’t last for too long. In example: senior year of high school I am at Mindy’s house with her nieces, Abbey and Emily. Without my knowing it, Emily puts chocolate candies in my pocket. A few hours later when I go to give them a bath, I take off my watch and put it in that pocket. After the girls go to bed, I go to take my watch out of said pocket and instead of a watch I get a chocolate covered ball of watch. Yes, I ruined a watch with chocolate.
Years have passed since then and I have refused to buy a nice watch. This has been made ever so much easier since moving to New York City. All of my watches since moving here have been $5 watches from China Town.
The glimmer of hope in my wach tale is that I have had my current watch from China Town for an entire year. On top of the fact that this is a miracle of cheaply made China Town goods as most of them only last a few months if you are lucky, it has given me hope that perhaps I am adult enough to have a big girl watch.
And thus, I did it. I bought a new big girl, adult watch. I spent more than $10 on a watch for the first time since 9th grade. Meet my new watch. She’s a Fossil and she’s beautiful.
So, here’s hoping that I can manage to keep her around and not lose, break, injure or melt anything to her!
