Maybe wristwatches caught on because during the era when we had to wind watches regularly, a self-winding wristwatch seemed like a fine idea. Now you can get a pocket watch that doesn’t need winding, if you really hate doing that tiny job. There’s no reason to have a watch shackled to your arm any longer.
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A few decades ago in the foundry where I shoveled sand into molds and busted up ingots with a sledgehammer, we’d joke about telling people it was a health spa and charging them to do the work. People now pay for the privilege of swinging a sledgehammer at an old tire, under a trainer’s supervision. From what I’ve seen of that, neither coach nor participant know much about sledgehammers.
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What most of us thought would be a passing fad never faded, and as we grudgingly replaced lost knives with new ones equipped with shiny dime store steel blades, we listened to the advertising pitches and tried to believe we were getting something better than those treasured dull grey knives that never failed.
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