Last week, my son announced that he needed a wristwatch, so I bought him an inexpensive analog watch. Later, as we were sitting at lunch, he decided to open his new watch and try it on. He kept looking at it quizzically and turning it around and around in his hands until it finally dawned on me that he probably wanted to set the correct time and had no clue how to do it.
Taking the watch out of his hands I pulled out the crown (the knobby, twisty thing whose name I had to look up) and set the...
Published on September 19, 2018 12:50