Which Watch are you wearing today?

[mtngunr]

Yes - my occasional fiancé' has accused me of being "heartless" as well --- that situation has been needing prayers, or divine intervention for years now

"You paid how much for that watch? - Thats more than an Apple watch -- and you can't even make calls or get texts with it or anything -- its WORTHLESS !! " --( referencing half my watch collection )

"Why do you have so many guns? You can only shoot one at a time !!!"

"You should sell your old truck -- i mean , it gets bad gas mileage and doesnt even have power windows !! " (referencing my '71 Cheyenne Super)

Best advice I can give on that is if ever married, both keep their own accounts for putting away surplus past shared debt, and each feel free to buy whatever they please out of it, with commentary limited to, "gee, that's nice," if not genuinely enthused. Constant criticism leads to couples such as my next door neighbor husband and wife whose lives would be empty but for the deep and abiding hate they share for each other.

 

[antkiller]

My carry today...

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[thor447]

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Great minds….

 

[antkiller]

They have really come a long way with their excellent $50 diver and the G-shock series. Back when they first came out with such before the G-shock, I think it was $15-$20 I gave for one (F100?) late '70s, which didn't last 6ths before band cracked, case leaked and watch died.

I lost my first G shock in survival training about 1990, not sure how but it was gone and I was late to my rendezvous point, won’t even say what my punishment was. The saddest part was it was given to me by my Aunts Husband, I still called him uncle even though he wasn’t. I didn’t know much about what he did at the time but learned later on just what a Marine was. If you looked in the dictionary and looked up Marine his picture would be there. He was a CH34 Choctaw Helo pilot in the early days of Vietnam through the end and later on the founding member of “Popasmoke” the Vietnam Helicopters pilots association the helped a lot of folks who like him, struggled after Vietnam with what we now call PTSD. He did a short stint at the end of his career flying C-130’s for the Blue Angles out of Miramar flying the Angles support team to the air shows and a few years of Commercial Aviation with PSA (anybody remember them) until his back couldn’t take it any more from injuries due multiple hard landings from being shot and shot down on numerous occasions while going in to pick up soldiers in places they shouldn’t have been. After short recoveries he would go right back. They don’t make them like that any more and I thought I did a lot of “interesting and questionable” things during my service but I feel like a pu$$y compared to him. He’s been gone a couple years now. His lessons and memories are alive and well me and many others. Sorry for the long story …

 

[mtngunr]

View attachment 529909I lost my first G shock in survival training about 1990, not sure how but it was gone and I was late to my rendezvous point, won’t even say what my punishment was. The saddest part was it was given to me by my Aunts Husband, I still called him uncle even though he wasn’t. I didn’t know much about what he did at the time but learned later on just what a Marine was. If you looked in the dictionary and looked up Marine his picture would be there. He was a CH34 Choctaw Helo pilot in the early days of Vietnam through the end and later on the founding member of “Popasmoke” the Vietnam Helicopters pilots association the helped a lot of folks who like him, struggled after Vietnam with what we now call PTSD. He did a short stint at the end of his career flying C-130’s for the Blue Angles out of Miramar flying the Angles support team to the air shows and a few years of Commercial Aviation with PSA (anybody remember them) until his back couldn’t take it any more from injuries due multiple hard landings from being shot and shot down on numerous occasions while going in to pick up soldiers in places they shouldn’t have been. After short recoveries he would go right back. They don’t make them like that any more and I thought I did a lot of “interesting and questionable” things during my service but I feel like a pu$$y compared to him. He’s been gone a couple years now. His lessons and memories are alive and well me and many others. Sorry for the long story …

Lot of folk like that trained me, hell, my dad was one of them from the Korean war, who may have been a putz as a dad, but no denying his medals, valour in combat, and that he was a man's man....as the famous quote says, we see so far because we stand on the shoulders of giants....your G-shock story (I think those came out circa '83) reminded me of the time a bluff edge crumbled away under me and I fell/slid/crashed off trees for about 50ft, part of it I don't even recall, next thing I knew I found myself in a cane thorn thicket on my back, me, clothing gear impaled on 1" thorns, and then inches above my face I see a giant black and yellow golden orb spider, shifting eyes showed entire thorn patch filled with them, and me thinking if that sucker dropped on my face that I was going to scream like a woman and fillet myself getting out. Managed to work my way out slowly and found my compass MIA...which was rather inconvenient when navigating. Managed to arrive at party quite late by using watch and thankful sunlight, but I paid, and paid, and paid for that compass.