I have this really cool watch. Moderately expensive, yet its second-hand doesn't move. There's one of those little separate spheres for the seconds, in the bottom part of the watch, and a tiny second-hand. But it doesn't work. And the minute hand doesn't move ahead gradually - it ticks ahead only at each minute. It's quite stylish.

Now I must admit: this only started happening after I dropped the watch hard on the floor. I like to think it came to its senses.

I believe the watch knows something many of us don't.

The moral of the story, if you please: know what time it is, but forget about the seconds.