| Re: Surfing eBay tonight... |
Subject: Re: Surfing eBay tonight... by CSS996 on 2008/8/23 23:59:29 Many years ago, my mother bought my dad a GMT Master II with a Jubilee band for an anniversary gift. When they divorced, my dad returned it to her, and invited her to ingest it, hoping it would become lodged in her throat. So she gave it to me. It is one of the few nice things she's done for me. But I'm reasonably certain that her generosity was mostly to spite my dad, who had to watch his teenage son wear the watch he had lusted after for over a decade. I wore it proudly for many years. Nothing can compare to the workmanship. It ended up needing servicing after many years, and I had no hope of being able to afford the repairs. I was also becoming rather self-conscious about wearing so much money on my wrist. So I stopped wearing it. It sat in a drawer for many years, and about five years ago, during hard financial times, I pawned it for half it's value and bought an '83 Toyota Celica GT Liftback with the funds. Sometimes I miss that watch. Sometimes I miss that Toyota too... Maybe someday I'll replace that watch. Or buy a motorcycle... |
