WATCH SURGERY

 

When Tim and I were kids we were very inquisitive, especially in the mechanical sense. My grandmother Ollie used to tell me that I especially had a lot of mechanical inquisitiveness as a kid. I would later prove her words all too true. I used to tear all kinds of junk things apart “to see what made them tick”. However, I rarely if ever put them back together again! When we were around 7 or 8 our grandmother Ollie got us each wristwatches for our birthday. Tim got a Mickey Mouse watch, which he still has I would hasten to add. I got a Davey Crocket watch. I don’t think it was much more than 10 minutes after I unwrapped it, that I ran upstairs to take it apart! I never did get it back together again! I especially liked to take clocks apart because it was interesting and fun to spin the little gears. They were just like little tops and many had pointed bottoms on the stems and would spin for a long time. I often think how much that Davey Crocket watch would be worth today if it were all in one piece. Oh, well, I just chalked it up to my deep mechanical inquisitiveness! Our mother, on the other hand, called it destructiveness… J