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May 12, 2005
Time for you to get a watch
I hate when people ask me the time. I'll tell you why. It's because there are two basic schools of thought as to telling the time: you can tell the exact time, or you can round it off to the nearest 5. As I write this, it is 8:56 am. If somebody came round and asked me the time, I could say it's 8:56 or 8:55, though I'd probably phrase it as "it's about 8:55."
The reason I don't like to report exactly what it is, is because that makes me seem dorky, or even worse, anal retentive. The only time I think you need to know the exact time is if you are working for NASA and launching a rocket and need to have it in orbit at the exact right moment, or maybe if you are planning an invasion and need to land your landing craft right when the tide is at its lowest. But now we have computers for that.
However, what if the person who is asking the time is dorky or anal retentive? Then they are mad at me for being inaccurate. But, if they are anal retentive and that concerned about the difference between 8:13 and 8:15, they should be having their own watch. Ocassionally I'll be a dick and tell the person who asks me the time, "it's time for you to get a watch."
Posted by oz115 at May 12, 2005 07:55 AM