Feeling Naked

I've never been a watch person. When I was younger, my parents would buy me those little girlie watches for children but I never wore them. Not because I didn't like them, but mainly, and rather embarrassingly because I didn't quite know how to read the time. I knew if I really thought about it but it took me some time to work it out. That's why I mainly just stuck to asking what the time was because if people see you are wearing a watch, they ask you what the time is. I didn't want to embarrass myself!!

Then, when I got on my PGCE course, I figured that I would need a watch for good time keeping when I am teaching and so I made the decision to buy myself a nice watch that I could use for school. And it's so pretty that I forced myself past that awkward stage of getting used to a watch to actually really liking having a watch. AND it helped me to learn my times, finally!

My beautiful watch!

Anyway, today as I was getting ready- for some reason, I was running a little late. This was mainly because I really did not want to get up this morning at 6AM. It was such an effort as for the two weeks before, I was able to have a little lie in and wake up at 8:30/9. So 6 is a killer. 

As I was saying, I was running a little late, so the last thing I had to do was put my watch on and brush my teeth. Little old me thought to brush my teeth first and then grab my watch before running out the door for 7AM. 

I didn't quite pick up my watch and didn't realise until I was half way down the road and wanting to know the time to check I was on time for my bus... BUT IT WASN'T THERE!!!

My watch was no longer there and for a girl that never wore watches, I was surprised at how sad I felt when I didn't have it on.

I FELT NAKED! It definitely didn't feel right that I had nothing on my left wrist. And now, I believe that I am and forever will be a watch lover.

Random story for Friday over!

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