more watches

This one goes back to a blog I posted about 1 1/2 years ago titled "daughter of a farmer" which involved my ingenious fixing of a watch with electrical tape. Well that watch that I was fixing was one of about 4 that I had from my days of living on Hilton Head Island when the Nike outlet was just around the corner and it was cheaper to go get a new watch than get the battery changed. Well each of those watches eventually ran out of battery and was replaced by a clone watch and being the pennsylvania dutch girl that I am I did not throw the unused watches away-i mean they may be useful SOMEday. That means that YES they have moved through 3 different countries! So over the past few years I have replaced the batteries in each of those watches and worn them until they actually broke(I mean seriously friends they are made of plastic-they were bound to eventually break). And when they broke I fixed them with electrical tape for as long as they could be fixed and then and only then did I throw them out-NOOOO!!! i did not throw them out-are you kidding?- I mean someday someone might come up with a way to reattach plastic watch bands to themselves- I put those watches in the medicine cabinet to wait for that day! So back to the watches which hadn't fallen apart, been fixed with electrical tape and then retired to the medicine cabinet. Over Christmas I took the last one home with me in hopes of changing the battery. On my last day there I realized I had not gotten the battery changed so I decided to go to Wal-mart to get a battery. What I forgot to take into account was the fact that I did not have a way of getting the back opened and I did not know what type of battery I needed and at Wal-mart or any other store for that matter they will not change said Nike battery because they cannot guarantee the waterproofness of it afterwards. I mean come on!-I am not going deep sea diving, I just want a watch that works! I will take all responsibility for the lack of waterproof abilities! So I waited at the watch counter for like 10 minutes hoping the person that came would hand me the tools so that I could open it and find the battery number and replace it. The lady comes and was about as helpful as I was when I worked at Wal-Mart for 1 month back in college-in other words she looked at me, said she couldn't change it, she didn't have the tools and there was a place in the mall(20 minutes away) who might change it. Now any other time that would have been my excuse to go to the mall and get Chick-Fil-A but it was my last day in the states and I wanted to avoid the mall. So long story short- I came up with the plan to go to the eye glasses part of the store and borrow one of their eye-glass repair kits that they sell. So I stood in the store and used their handy tool to open the back of my watch only to find that they did not have the correct battery-drats! well wal-mart got an extra 97 cents because I bought that repair kit so I could take it to the rite-aid and buy the correct watch! (and while I was there I found this stuffed "Woody" pillow that my nephew freaked out about when he opened it for his bday- he is a HUGE toy story fan!) So thank you wal-mart for all of your help! Oh yeah- and this being the LAST watch in a long succession of identical watches-it is also the best because the indigo light actually works! way to go out with a bang!