Word: watching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mean, name five adults you know who watch cartoons," Liu said...
...however, did not participate in this nationwide statement of unity and progress. As a conscientious objector to national policy, I refused to set my clock one hour ahead. Instead, I set my watch 53 minutes ahead, my clock 47 minutes ahead, and my computer's clock 37 minutes ahead. You see, I had already set my clocks ahead. And therein lies my problem...
...hour and stretching that concept to apply to things rather outside it, like catching planes. Or perhaps I was just lazy. Regardless of the cause, however, I quickly realized the habit was worth breaking and set about to correct it the only way I knew how: by setting my watch a few minutes ahead...
...course, I was aware that this is a relatively common ploy with low rates of success. But I intended to be the exception that proves the rule. In what I considered a particularly crafty tactic, I set my watch not to five minutes ahead--so easy to correct for the "real time"--but to the far more ambiguous seven minutes ahead. In this way, I succeeded in fooling myself to the extent that I even began showing up early. Yet there were limitations on the system. Because I rely on my clock rather than my watch while in my room...
This required more thought. I went outside and sat on a chair by a swimming pool to watch the jumpers. A bunch of kids were up top, and a woman who appeared to be their mother was on the ground cheering them on. "Jump!" she shouted at them. I doubt they could hear, but still, I wasn't sure I would want one of my parents encouraging me to leap from a 16-story tower...