I’m not sure why but we have a clock in nearly every room of our house. Some rooms have more than one.
Living Room: 3
Dining Room: 1
Kitchen: 2 (microwave and oven)
Family Room: 2 (mantle & computer)
Downstairs 1/2 Bath: None
Emily’s Room: 1 alarm clock
Jonathan’s Room: 2 alarm & computer (and he isn’t even there any more)
Ben’s room: 1 alarm clock
Master Bedroom: 2 alarm clocks & a 1/2 dozen watches.
Master Bath: 1 wall clock
Garage: 1 wall clock.
We also have our cell phones that tell time in synchronization with some atomic clock hidden in a mountain fortress.
We also have a clock in every car, to remind us how late we are as we drive to our destination.
And this begs the question: With all this time-keeping capability, why are we always late? How is it that the kids are hardly ever on time and we leave late for church every week? How is it possible that we go to bed WAY too late and have a hard time getting up in the morning? We miss deadlines. We eat dinner at seven, long after the rest of the neighborhood has finished cleaning their dishes.
And why is it that every clock tells a different time? I understand the three in the living room, they are set to report the time of different nations but why is the oven clock 17 minutes faster than the mantle clock in the next room? Why does my cell phone report 4:03 p.m. when my car clock says 4:05 p.m. and the radio announcer just informed me that it is really 4:01 p.m.? The clock in the dining room is exactly 12 hours slow. How did this happen?
I have given this much thought and can only come to one conclusion. We don’t have enough clocks. We need more. There is space in the utility room and on the back porch. The refrigerator would also be a perfect location to hang a digital time-piece. You never know when you might want to time yourself as you look for a cube of ice.
