Coveting the watch
Emptying my other Hotmail accounts, including some good forwards from my former sister-in-law about waxing one's privates together and how to take out aggression on strangers, I see "REI Gear Mail." This can only lead to trouble.
They have a sale on tents (got a great one, don't need another), sleeping bags (now own four, definitely don't need another), clothing (will wait until the last minute to buy that), trekking poles (actually have a pair and don't need or want even them), shoes (already tried on all that REI has to offer and am still looking for the perfect ones), and more, much more.
The voices in my head say, "Click on the watch. Why on earth would a watch cost $160? You need to know!" I have not owned a watch in years. I'm a serial watch monogamist and have been waiting for the right one to come along. Once I had the perfect watch, but I lost it on the shores of Lanai in Hawaii somewhere. Sigh. Must have been my karma for breaking into the private, exclusive hotel resort - while I stayed at my friend's girlfriend's rented house in the mountains with the rooms full of dead animal heads ... but I digress.
This is not just a watch. This is Highgear Summit. Notice the "gear" in the name? This is when I began to feel my demise. Because I sort of have a watch - it's a waterproof little timepiece with a carabiner that I connected to my kayak in Baja. It's now attached to my keys, for which Jenny is happy because the last one used to beep on the hour and send her into panic mode. This one, no beeping, and it was $5.99.
But, it also has no altimeter, thermometer, barometer, stopwatch, or compass. Nor can it tell me current time in two different time zones. Ah, I did not know what I lacked until now. Now, I feel naked without the Highgear Summit on my wrist, my life incomplete.
Ah, who am I kidding? I can't stand to wear anything on my wrists or fingers or any of that. Blah. But, I'll take this as an excuse to go to REI and ogle the goods.
They have a sale on tents (got a great one, don't need another), sleeping bags (now own four, definitely don't need another), clothing (will wait until the last minute to buy that), trekking poles (actually have a pair and don't need or want even them), shoes (already tried on all that REI has to offer and am still looking for the perfect ones), and more, much more.
The voices in my head say, "Click on the watch. Why on earth would a watch cost $160? You need to know!" I have not owned a watch in years. I'm a serial watch monogamist and have been waiting for the right one to come along. Once I had the perfect watch, but I lost it on the shores of Lanai in Hawaii somewhere. Sigh. Must have been my karma for breaking into the private, exclusive hotel resort - while I stayed at my friend's girlfriend's rented house in the mountains with the rooms full of dead animal heads ... but I digress.
This is not just a watch. This is Highgear Summit. Notice the "gear" in the name? This is when I began to feel my demise. Because I sort of have a watch - it's a waterproof little timepiece with a carabiner that I connected to my kayak in Baja. It's now attached to my keys, for which Jenny is happy because the last one used to beep on the hour and send her into panic mode. This one, no beeping, and it was $5.99.
But, it also has no altimeter, thermometer, barometer, stopwatch, or compass. Nor can it tell me current time in two different time zones. Ah, I did not know what I lacked until now. Now, I feel naked without the Highgear Summit on my wrist, my life incomplete.
Ah, who am I kidding? I can't stand to wear anything on my wrists or fingers or any of that. Blah. But, I'll take this as an excuse to go to REI and ogle the goods.
posted by NOLA at 10:13 AM
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