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For the past 3 months or so I've noticed that nearly every time I look at my watch (it's digital) the seconds reading is either high 50s or low 10s. So 1:35:56secs, say or 3:10:02 secs. Constantly. All the time! It happens so much (I'd say around 90% of the time) that it's beginning to annoy me. I used to think, Wow, this is funny. But now I look at my watch and just get irritated that it's still happening. Just about the only time it doesn't happen is when I consciously decide to look at my watch to actually see if that's what the time is saying. Virtually every time I look unconsciously, sure enough, 6:52:06. Or 11:05:58. And so on. Sometimes it's right on the minute changeover, just hitting 00 seconds, or right on 01 seconds. This is beginning to "weird me out", as the saying goes. What are the odds on something like this occurring so consistently over several months? See, I just looked at my watch, and there it is, 11:32:02!! Any thoughts?
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Odds of being in the final 10 seconds or 1st 10 seconds after a minute mark? 1 in 3.
You probably noticed it during a "streak" of successes, and now it's ingraained in your perception that it "always" happens, so as a result you always NOTICE when it happens, but don't notice when it doesn't, thus reinforcing your perception that it "always" happens.
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Yeah, that was my thinking too, Magson. Except it happens so often that I do notice when it doesn't. But it definitely happens WAY more than not. I know its nothing paranormal, of course, but it sure seems strange. 1 in 3 doesn't seem too difficult to hit. What about in the ten second range from 55 seconds to 05? Would that be 1 in 6? (No mathemetician, me...)
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Here's a fun trick to annoy your friends who wear watches. When you seem them look at their wristwatch, wait until they put their arm back down and ask them what time it is. They will have to look at their watch again even though they just looked at it. You can amuse yourself for hours...or well, seconds with this
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You know what's really annoying? Forgetting to put on your wristwatch one day and then keep looking at your wrist even though you noticed first time that something was missing. It probably has something to do with the fact that the whole movement (action) has become something of an automatism for most people.
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I haven't worn a wristwatch for years. I have a cell phone that I always carry with me and that has the time. Plus at any given moment I usually have a clock or two in relatively easy view. (Right now I have one on the PC, and one on my office phone. I have one in my car, so I don't need a watch while driving. There's one on the VCR and on the "guide" page of my TV. There's one on my oven, microwave, and beside my bed.
A wristwatch just seem so . . . well, redundant. Posts: 6394 | Registered: Dec 1999
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I used to wear a watch on my ankle. It was, believe it or not, more convenient than wearing a watch on my wrist.
Eventually I gave up owning a watch altogether when I realized there was a clock mounted on every flat surface in any place I ever worked.
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When I worked at a summer camp six years ago, I bought a cheap wristwatch that ended up being too small. So I just attached it to one of the front loops on my jeans, making it kind of like a pocket watch. Several of my kids thought it was cool, and did the same. Now there are watches that are designed to be clipped onto belt loops and I see them all over the place!
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Palliard: I'm wrecking my brain trying to figure in what way wearing your watch on your ankle would be more convenient than wearing it on your wrist? Please tell me...
Personally I've been wearing the same watch for 13 years now. It's almost always on my left wrist (unless I forget to put it on), but sometimes I wear it with the face on the inside of my arm.
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The face was on the inside of my right ankle. If your trousers are of the correct length, when you pull your leg up to see your watch, the trousers will pull up and away enough to see it.
I would simply lift up my right foot, and look at my ankle, and there would be the time.
It was fairly convenient, especially since I don't like having stuffs on my wrists.
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You should have a piece of paper with you and keep a tally of the times when it is between 50 and 10 and those times it is not. If after a couple hundred times your Not column isn't about twice as big as your Is column, you may be onto something Posts: 1412 | Registered: Oct 2005
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This sounds alot like my 9th grade English teachers believe that if there ever was a pause in conversation it would always take place when the minute hand on a clock was at the 3,6,9, or 12. For awhile I tried verifying that but found it to be sometimes true and sometimes false.
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I'll try the piece of paper thing and will get back to you on the tally. I'm betting it will be out of proportion to the odds, and i will be honest about it too. If it keeps happening I might start wearing my watch around my ankle - there's no way I'll ever look at it down there!
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