funny watch

What would it be like to find a watch that ran backward? What would you do with it? A backward running watch that made time run backward, yet everything else seemed normal, like time was running forward for everyone except you. What would you do with the gift, and is it a gift or a curse?

This very thing happened to George Money. George is a40 something, has been married to his high school sweetheart for 25 years, works as a middle manager at the local Piggly Wiggly in produce. He has a nice, simple unadorned home 3 miles from work. His wife just started back in the work force after aising the kids and getting them off to college. Her name is Peg and likes her hyphenated name. Her maiden name is Moore, and forgo her career in advertising to raise children. All seems perfect to George and Peg Money. Except for the daydreams.

We all have them, and George and Peg Moore-Money were no different. George saw himself on the stage, and in high school everyone though he would go on to NY and be a great one on Broadway. George has a beautiful soothing tenors voice, and his classmates thought he was a natural at acting. Peg dreamed of herself in a high rise office commanding power in the advertising industry like no woman before. How real life takes hold us and puts us on the path we take.

Now George found this watch while walking home from the supermarket one day, in the pouring rain, because his car had broken down. He noticed that the watch wasn't only very beautiful, but ran backwards. Looking closer at it, he read the inscription "Ask and you will find the answer to your dreams".

As George thought this out, he came up with all the possible realities that could have been for him self and Peg. What if I had only?. To many questions to run though the brain in the rain, although George liked the rain very much.

George thought of how he was an actor, in community theater, and a good one. How he sang in the choir at church, and loved that. George thought of Peg and her dreams of conquest of the advertising world, only to think of how everyone anywhere Peg Moore-Money went, wallets opened up. PTA, Little League, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, High School band. Everywhere Peg went, she was a force not to be denied. When she was the fund raiser for a project, the project got funded. Period.

So. walking in the rain George did the only thing he could possible do. He closed the watch, admired its beauty once more, and tossed it into the storm drain. In his version of the world, George thought he and Peg already had lived their dreams come true.

Just then, Peg drove up, just close enough to startle George, who was lost in thought.