A little misleading. There IS no time bank. But think of what you could do if there were.
First, let’s get one thing straight:
Time is your only real asset and it’s not renewable. Forget relativity,
spacetime, alternative universes. We get enough of that from physicists and gurus.
Time may be an artificial construct
based on observable phenomena. But in day to day use, it’s real.
And think of how much you
squander. If you could bank some of it, your life would be longer…
generally considered a plus.
As in any market, there are gains and
losses. When the court has a missing item on its calendar and your case
comes up early, you gain. (Unless, of course, bail is denied and they
take you directly to the electric chair.)
When the sign in the doctor’s office
says if you’re more than 15 minutes late you will have to reschedule, you’ve
lost time even if you’re only 16 minutes late. Of course, if doc is late,
no matter by how much, tough, buddy. Live with it. He or she’s a doctor,
after all.
You lose time on checkout lines, in
traffic jams, waiting for “her” to put on her makeup after taking forever deciding
on what to wear (still subject to change after the makeup’s done.) You lose
time waiting for “him” to finish watching the ball game or the golf match.
You lose time when the foursome ahead
of you on the 18th hole decides to drink and carouse before they get to the
“19th Hole Lounge” in the clubhouse.
You lose time when you use the cash
only lane on the George Washington Bridge and eight cars ahead of you is Jed
Clampett in his 1928 Model- A Ford, trying to get directions to Rhinebeck
followed by seven cars from Ohio.
These are times you can’t bank.
But think about the time you lose all by yourself.
An hour watching “The Voice” or the MTV
awards is an hour you’ll never get back. A trip to the outlet mall is a day you
can’t get back.
The clock is not syncopated, it counts
steadily.
Grapeshot:
-When you tell the bank teller you want
to make a “time deposit” and she asks how much, and you answer about an hour”
she’ll have you thrown out.
-Calling a watch a “timepiece” in an ad
is pretentious, calling it a timepiece in conversation is ridiculous, printing
the word on the watch face is gauche.
-In the smartphone era, watches are
jewelry because there’s no need to have one to tell time.
-Digital watches with LED readouts
often have a zillion functions but they lack one you get only with analog: time
remaining in the hour at a glance.
-Make that two functions… because a
stopped analog is right twice a day, but a stopped digital is a blank face.
I’m Wes Richards. My opinions are my
own but you’re welcome to them. ®
Any Questions? wesrichards@gmail.com
© WR 2021
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