Clock Watching

Jools and I go to the shopping mall. Well, she goes to the mall, I go to the bookstore opposite. We agree to meet at 3pm. I'm early, so I take a few pix of the clock tower. I don't look at the time on the clock. Who does?

I drift along to the meeting point. Jools is there already. She's not happy. "You're 25 minutes late", she says. "I'm not. Right on time," I reply, tapping my watch, which displays 3pm, precisely.

"Bugger your stupid watch, it's wrong," she responds frostily. I check it against the mall clock and her phone. Both tell me it's 3.25.

"Er, well, yes, must be the battery . . ."

"What do you expect for $10? Swiss engineering? It might help if you bought a real watch, not a toy from Walmart, you cheap bastard!!!!"

Can't argue with that.