I recently got out of a long term relationship. After 15 years, the GE alarm clock I received as a gift for opening a checking account in 1990, passed to the great beyond - a land fill in Staten Island. In consumer electronic years, she was 492. She was old but man did I love her. Reliable, easy to understand and easy going, she wasn't the type to make it hard for me to set her after a night out drinking with the fellas.
She was from a different era, from a time when actual living Chinese snapped premolded plastic panels together with pride, now a days, some robot would do it (oh what I wouldn't give for a return to the halcyon days of hand craftsmanship). Her design was sublime; it was so easy to push back my wake up time an hour - or two, none of that finger twister modern clocks require. I have to admit, she was a seductive gal: I know you need another hour, stop fighting it, you don't even need to turn on the lights, you know where my buttons are.
Why did you take her from me God, why?
But you know, life goes on, you can't let things like this keep you in bed all day. I recently brought home a new alarm clock, she's from mainland China, a Timex. I'm keeping an open mind but this feels like a rebound relationship. She's modern you know, sets the time and date automatically, has dual alarms, a dimmer and all sorts of things that seem great, but she makes it clear, you have to operate her on her terms. Forget about pushing back that wake up time in the dark, it's not happening. You might as well just get up. We're gonna have to work it out but I'm willing to try, she's very pretty.
She was from a different era, from a time when actual living Chinese snapped premolded plastic panels together with pride, now a days, some robot would do it (oh what I wouldn't give for a return to the halcyon days of hand craftsmanship). Her design was sublime; it was so easy to push back my wake up time an hour - or two, none of that finger twister modern clocks require. I have to admit, she was a seductive gal: I know you need another hour, stop fighting it, you don't even need to turn on the lights, you know where my buttons are.
Why did you take her from me God, why?
But you know, life goes on, you can't let things like this keep you in bed all day. I recently brought home a new alarm clock, she's from mainland China, a Timex. I'm keeping an open mind but this feels like a rebound relationship. She's modern you know, sets the time and date automatically, has dual alarms, a dimmer and all sorts of things that seem great, but she makes it clear, you have to operate her on her terms. Forget about pushing back that wake up time in the dark, it's not happening. You might as well just get up. We're gonna have to work it out but I'm willing to try, she's very pretty.
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Sorry to hear about your loss. Good luck with the new relationship, be patient though, it takes time to make these things work out. :-)
Big D - now that is some clever writing.
"And, she never put on any weight!"
Ahh, forgot about that one.
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