WOF/WOS 57: Good Enough Clock - Wrong Season

Linda likes to hit the after-holiday sales and reap rewards. Off-season shopping can bring great rewards _ I just got two sweaters for five bucks apiece last night, and Linda scored a couple tops at Macy's for three bucks.

Anyway, she picked up this seasonal clock maybe the week after Christmas. It's supposed to chime on the hour with favorite Christmas carols and songs of snowmen and all that. well, it did not work. It sat in the house with a receipt for weeks, waiting for us to get around to returning the thing.

Then one day about three weeks ago, maybe someone stuck some different batteries in or something, but it started working. Linda was elated. Ok, that's overstating it. Linda was happy the thing was working. At any rate, up it went on the wall, replacing another one of these battery driven things that never worked right. It didn't even sit still and get the time right twice a day, as the joke goes. It just lagged behind or sped up and you could just never trust it.

This one works like a charm. It also hammers out a jolly, cheap-song-chip carol on the hour. And because we are so happy it works, we've let the thing play on.

Bottom line is, we are spending time here during the Holy Week leading up to Easter singing along to the likes of "O Little Town of Bethlehem". It's not so much a weird object as a weirdly oddly-timed object. And perhaps we are a bit dim for letting it play on...