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Watch batteries .....well that was rather amusing...

I purchased a new every day watch from China, nice looking thing in stainless with a stainless band, date, time luminescent markers on the hands and dial... I did not even have it a year and it stopped working... this aggravated me..

I ordered a smart watch thinking a rechargeable watch linked to my phone made sense - particularly when I am on the boat sailing and I can leave my phone safely below deck and not risk it..

Anyways I ordered watch batteries from China... it was $1 more to get forty of them rather than a standard pack of ten..

My Wife buys cheap dollar store watches.. and when one stops running she buys another one.. There were five dead watches sitting in a box on the coffee table.. I grabbed all five of them and popped open the backs.. all of them use the same type of battery.. Ok I fix two I take them to her and she is not amused - then I do number 3.. it does not get better - ok I do #4 and she says "can you please stop it"... I did not have the balls to hand her #5 so I put it on her night table... I think if I handed it to her I would be sleeping on the couch... I really prefer to sleep with her so I will do my best to behave myself..

Meanwhile my every day watch is back and running again.. I set the date and the time...now I have three every day watches.. and a nice gold Swiss wristwatch which I keep locked in the safe... Most guys are like I have a pair of boat shoes, a black pair of dress shoes, a brown pair of dress shoes and perhaps a pair of running shoes.. we don't typically need a lot of stuff..

My Wife was getting mighty aggravated with me handing her the old watches working again... but honestly it was really funny... I have 34 batteries left...My Mother tells me she has four dead watches as well... this is hilarious..

Yes its the stupid little things that amuse me..

What I also find funny is that all these watches all use the same battery...
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GoFish ·
i have a dead watch too but i wear it like a bracelet cause it's pretty 😅
pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@GoFish Send me an address I will mail you a battery ....LOL..
GoFish ·
pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@GoFish I just got ticked off when my watch stopped working... so I popped the back off of it and saw what the battery number was and went on line to order a spare... China is like Costco ... a few batteries is stupid and a whole bunch of them are cheap... ok its a whole $8... well today they arrived.. and the first watch I fixed was mine.. but then I had this stack of watches for my Wife..I had opened up the backs and bingo every single one of them used the same battery... I really did not know what my Wife's reaction would be to me doing these watches but it was sort of amusing seeing how aggravated she was getting with me... Ok smart ass stop making fun of me for buying cheap watches.. Now she has a collection and they all work... Imagine when the clock changes and she has to set them all...it really was funny... I was talking to my Mother on the phone when I handed her the watches and my Mother heard her saying "stop it"... it was really funny... like stop making fun of me for buying stuff...

Well I got mine working again and that made me happy... This was my after Seder amusement tonight... My Wife played the role of straight man...
GoFish ·
@pdqsailor1 lol my hub bought a pack of the other batteries the ones for the car fob batteries but also we used to have this bathroom scale that took one and it was always dead and had to constantly be replaced .. we have a different scale now that is never dead.. it's nice and goes up to 500 lbs 😬 not sure what it uses ☺ but it works
pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@GoFish I found 9 volt batteries with a USB type C charge port on them - Lithium rechargeable ... I will never buy a $5 battery from a store again.. I mean EVER... actually you just reminded me to buy some type D batteries as I have a few things - a cool LED flashlight and another device that use the type D batteries... Yes there is a button type flat battery that my hand gun site uses and a bunch of other stuff so I will get these in bulk in China as well....
pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@GoFish Yes those fob batteries are very common... my kitchen scale uses a 9V so in went one of the rechargeable ones..Same thing with my Muti meters.. well one uses those fob batteries 2032 .. I think?? Loads of stuff we have uses them...

We went to the Synagogue today... very nice ...
GoFish ·
@pdqsailor1 yeah the 2032.. i wish i could go to shul but the ones here are odd there's a reform one where they don't even believe in God.. there's some messianic ones around but they are far and not to be a snob but they don't have the order of prayer service that my shul had growing up (which is super far now) i watch them on youtube sometimes but even they aren't what they used to be.. i used to watch youtube more but haven't so much lately .. i did notice they had a lot of kosher for passover cake and pastry recipes on there tho 😁 i watch a lot of cooking baking shows online some Israeli ones too there ☺ i know a lot of prayers and fragments of prayers by heart from going to shul every week for years when i was a kid.. as a kid i couldn't wait to get out of there and go play but as a teen i recognized the beauty of the prayers and the service and also some of the words because we had began to learn a bit of hebrew by then ☺
pdqsailor1 · 61-69, M
@GoFish I love our old and beautiful Synagogue and the dedicated congregants who attend... though I would really prefer it was packed to the rafters in terms of attendance... For us its such a treat to go there.. For my Mother its an outing ...particularly during the non-sailing months...
GoFish ·
@pdqsailor1 ah nice i can imagine it would be lovely .. my home shul far away was an old church before my shul bought it.. it’s by the bay and not very fancy .. flooded once during the storms/hurricanes.. i haven't been there since i was 16.. i’m almost embarrassed to go there because i used to write my rabbis’ son super dumb love letters which probably horrified them and i just wanted them to answer me but they never did .. in retrospect i never should have said anything just kept my crazy thoughts to myself.. live and learn i guess.. in my dreams a few years ago they were nice to me.. they told me he got married 😂 smh .. *face palm*