I live in central standard time (CST).
This means that anytime a show is advertised on TV I usually have to subtract an hour from EST to determine what time I can watch the show.
But that is nothing compared with the time zones I negotiate when moving from room to room in my home.
Yes my home.
My husband sets clocks ahead.
He sets his watch 7 minutes ahead and keeps it on military time. Not a big deal since he alone wears his watch.
What has been a bit contentious is the clock in the bedroom. The clock by the bed that wakes us up in the morning. The clock that is currently 32 minutes ahead. Interestingly, that clock has inched up in aheadness approximately 1 minute per year of our marriage.
The clock in the shower is 17 minutes ahead.
The clock in the kitchen is 6 minutes ahead.
The clock in the car is 11 minutes ahead.
Oh, aren’t you taking notes? Because if you come visit you might want to know the time.
After years I have learned to look at a clock based on its location and do the math in my head.
Oh! I am in the bedroom and it is 10:43? Nope! It’s 10:11!
Oh! I am taking a shower and have only 5 minutes? Nope! I have 22!
Oh! I am running 15 minutes driving to an appointment? Nope! No need to call ahead, I will only be 3 or 4 minutes late.
So, the obvious question is WHY?
And believe me, I have asked the obvious question on many occasions. Some more heated then others.
Why do I have to live under these extreme math conditions?
My husband replies that it makes him feel better about getting up early in the morning. Like it isn’t actually 5:30 because the clock says it is 6:02. I don’t buy this argument…
Because he is one of the smartest people I know. So you can’t tell me that he isn’t doing the math in his head the INSTANT that he looks at the clock.
So the question of WHY remains.
I guess that I should be grateful that he hasn’t determined an international date line runs through the dining room…
I live in central standard time (CST).
This means that anytime a show is advertised on TV I usually have to subtract an hour from EST to determine what time I can watch the show.
But that is nothing compared with the time zones I negotiate when moving from room to room in my home.
Yes my home.
My husband sets clocks ahead.
He sets his watch 7 minutes ahead and keeps it on military time. Not a big deal since he alone wears his watch.
What has been a bit contentious is the clock in the bedroom. The clock by the bed that wakes us up in the morning. The clock that is currently 32 minutes ahead. Interestingly, that clock has inched up in aheadness approximately 1 minute per year of our marriage.
The clock in the shower is 17 minutes ahead.
The clock in the kitchen is 6 minutes ahead.
The clock in the car is 11 minutes ahead.
Oh, aren’t you taking notes? Because if you come visit you might want to know the time.
After years I have learned to look at a clock based on its location and do the math in my head.
Oh! I am in the bedroom and it is 10:43? Nope! It’s 10:11!
Oh! I am taking a shower and have only 5 minutes? Nope! I have 22!
Oh! I am running 15 minutes driving to an appointment? Nope! No need to call ahead, I will only be 3 or 4 minutes late.
So, the obvious question is WHY?
And believe me, I have asked the obvious question on many occasions. Some more heated then others.
Why do I have to live under these extreme math conditions?
My husband replies that it makes him feel better about getting up early in the morning. Like it isn’t actually 5:30 because the clock says it is 6:02. I don’t buy this argument…
Because he is one of the smartest people I know. So you can’t tell me that he isn’t doing the math in his head the INSTANT that he looks at the clock.
So the question of WHY remains.
I guess that I should be grateful that he hasn’t determined an international date line runs through the dining room…
I posted on the wrong post somehow… I obviously need help. 🙂
So i take it you got some rain??? All great shots, honey! But the caption on that last one is perfection. 🙂
OK wheres my cabbage I was depending on it for lunch. Happy your bowl if full but potatoes are not fruit. Just saying
You do realize you can reset the clocks, right? 😉 And I have the perfect XMAS gift for him: an atomic clock, set to the atomic clock in Boulder. You could even get him a wristwatch to match! LOL!
We have the same phenomenon in our house, only it is me. Gavin’s clock gets messed up due to his wandering fingers, so I have no idea how many minutes ahead he is. My watch is always a few minutes ahead (of my microwave clock which is only 2 minutes ahead which is 7 minutes behind my van clock which is 9 minutes ahead which is 11 minutes behind my bedroom clock which is 20 minutes ahead which is 25 minutes ahead of my husband who is always lagging by 5 minutes.
I have always worked in accounting and finance, so my mind is constantly doing math even when there is no math to be found, so I make it up, it seems.
My hubby used to do this, too and it made me NUTS! My solution? I changed the clocks all to the right time and didn’t tell him. Sure, he was late everywhere he went for a week, but he learned up quick. ;o)
I have a similar ridiculous system… alarm clock, VCR clock, microwave, and car clock are all different amounts ahead ranging from 3 minutes to 20 minutes. Mine is a trick to confuse myself so I am not late in the morning. The rest of the day I am awake enough to remember the system and figure out what time it is. Mornings are the only time I am late. God… I could write a whole post about my own OCD-ness on this.
wow! i get frustrated with our clocks that aren’t set as close to the correct time as possible. and i hate when my husband sets the alarm for an hour before we have to get up. then he hits the snooze as many times as he can until he has to get up. i would rather sleep for real until i have to get up. i don’t need 17 warnings that my sleeptime is winding down.
That is so funny! I have a few issuers like that with my husband, but we don’t have THAT many different clocks!
That’s so funny! All of our clocks are a few minutes off from each other, but that wasn’t intentional. It’s just a by product of laziness when setting our clocks.