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<p>Yes, and tactful as well. How disappointing you turn out to be.</p>
<p>sad.</p>
<p>Watches irritate me. I have very thin wrists, and they are just uncomfortable. I feel free without them. My husband constantly loses them, in opposite correlation to how expensive they are…if he got a nice one, it would be lost before he left the jewelers store. My kids won’t wear them. But each to their own.</p>
<p>So I still have nothing useful to add to this conversation, but here it is late at night with nothing else to do. I would invite you to join me in a glass of fine wine, and I do stand by that…but I know you’re way too healthy. Forget the crumb cake, maybe it was coffee cake, I’m sure if I drizzle chocolate icing on it, you’ll like it. Hey, I might enjoy a lovely watch if it was drizzled in chocolate.</p>
<p>'Yes, and tactful as well. How disappointing you turn out to be.
sad."</p>
<p>You still get my vote.</p>
<p>Busdriver, you know you are one of my favorites. </p>
<p>What are you doing on a thread about watches if you hate them?</p>
<p>I, for example, hate Trader Joe’s. I never go on that thread. :p</p>
<p>you goof.</p>
<p>I’ve been reading this board a long time and my favorite threads are the ones where everyone tells something about themselves. What watches everyone wears is interesting to me. At some point when I am extremely bored, I am going back to compare watches and posters from the “sweatsuit” thread. </p>
<p>My favorite thread was what we had on our dining room table.</p>
<p>My greatest fear is going to a dinner and someone recognizes me from this board. :eek:</p>
<p>I started drinking with the neighbors after church at around 2 pm and now I can’t sleep.</p>
<p>Nobody would ever recognize me from this board. At least I hope not. :eek:</p>
<p>I’ve disguised certain facts to protect the innocent.</p>
<p>Hah! I can’t go to sleep because my daughter has friends over in the other room. I’m really ready for her to go to college. ;)</p>
<p>I’ve disguised lots of facts but it is getting rather confusing to keep up with all of them at this point. I can’t even keep myself straight with the real facts in real life half the time…</p>
<p>we gave our kids art for their 21st birthdays. that is a real fact and sort of back to the OP</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be bummed to run into either of you at a dinner party, though.</p>
<p>I mean, crumb cake might not thrill me at that party, but I’d be okay with you guys being there.</p>
<p>Did they go with to choose the art? Was it wall art or sculpture?</p>
<p>Ha, I know I’d recognize you, poetgrl. You’ll be the young looking, skinny babe on the 10 mile run! Or make that 20. I wish I had my kids keeping me up too, but the little guy is only home from his job one day a week (if I’m lucky), and the older kid is leaving soon for a real job. I miss him already.</p>
<p>I am terrible at disguising facts, because I can’t lie. I can be wrong (occasionally, of course), and forget things, though. Anyone who knows me could figure it out in a second, but I figure, who cares? I hope they would say hello. I am sure alh would be just lovely to meet, as she is also very sweet. Would it be so terrible if someone recognized you, alh?</p>
<p>wall art because it is easier to move when you have a very unsettled lifestyle… we selected for them based on their interests… they have spent a lot of time in museums, galleries, auctions, so we have a pretty good sense what they like - I hope!</p>
<p>the above may or may not be factual :)</p>
<p>busdriver: I would be delighted to meet you, but you would soon discover I am not sweet at all IRL. That is one of my inventions for the board. Basically I can’t even believe I’m on the internet at all. I don’t do facebook and barely do email. It is a joke among my friends. They would be amazed to find me here. shush.</p>
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<p>I’ve had a person or two that’s come to visiting weekends with my grad department guess who I was after interacting with me on the tours. It’s not that scary. ;)</p>
<p>I actually caught one of my friends from another web board posting on here a few years ago. He was using a different name, but somehow I just instantly knew who it was from the writing style. Now I always greet him with IIIIIIIVVVVVVVVVVYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY. :)</p>
<p>ahl, I would be intimidated to choose art for my oldest. She has “the eye.” </p>
<p>Even from a young age.</p>
<p>I think I would take her with me as a consultant these days though.</p>
<p>"busdriver: I would be delighted to meet you, but you would soon discover I am not sweet at all IRL. That is one of my inventions for the board.’</p>
<p>Now THAT, I don’t believe. People don’t become nicer on a message board. They become less filtered, more honest, try less to please. I would never say anything unkind IRL, and if someone says or does something stupid, I will go through great lengths to make sure they are never uncomfortable. Nobody ever makes a mistake around me (except my H, poor guy). On a board, I am compelled to raise the BS flag. If you are nice on a message board, you are REALLY nice in person.</p>
<p>Yup, ucalabamus! Isn’t it nice that its unisex at that price?!</p>
<p>I think the idea of ‘investment grade’ is not helpful. A collector might pay 10s of K for a watch, and would keep it in mint condition, not wear it. </p>
<p>For a decent watch to wear, I would avoid anything with a battery, and go for self-winding.</p>
<p>If you want to pay 10-20K for a Rolex, fine, but there are problems. How likely would you be to lose it? How much do you travel? What does it signal to people you meet? A salesman is gonna set his prices for you based in part on what you wear…</p>
<p>For an active young guy who wants to look sporty and professional, I think a few thousand on a Tag would work well.</p>
<p>DH has never met a watch he didn’t love.
He would enjoy getting a new watch every Christmas and birthday!
I’m sure he’d flip out over a 38K watch from Costco but he also is currently wearing a no name 100 dollar Swiss army style Costco watch and loves it.</p>
<p>DS wore Timex watches sporadically through childhood, but switched to using cell as a teen.
But his Dads watchlove took hold when he found he wanted a watch while teaching.
He visited the watch counter at Macy’s and bought himself a nice looking 200ish dollar watch.
I see that he’s wearing it off hours as well, surprisingly.</p>
<p>I have been on this board for a while, and it never fails that when someone ever mentions he/she could afford more than anyone on this board, all the green monsters just come out. It is fine when someone says, “I could live on $30 a week by eating beans and processed food,” but to say, “I like organic food and steak sometimes,” would be bragging. No, actually someone is just saying how they like to eat. I get it that most of us can’t afford everything, but it doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate and be happy for others when they could afford it. I have to say, it is one of the big disappoint of this board. There are only a handful of posters who would say “I don’t have enough disposal income to afford one of those watches, but I appreciate workmanship of those fine watches. It is nice of you to get them for your kids.” Frankly, I don’t think there are that many people I would want to meet from this board because people are not nicer IRL, they just do a good job of hiding it.</p>
<p>thanks for the pic, ucbalumnus. And HImom – I’m running over to Costco now – what a steal! </p>
<p>oldfort – well said. The second money comes up (and how could it not – it’s threaded through every conversation about college, the schools we choose, the vacations we take, the hobbies we engage in, the cars we buy) there will always be posts like the ones you refer to.</p>
<p>In general, this thread has been more civil than most. I genuinely did wish PG well (and I do think the auction route can turn up some real gems, but you need the time to find them).</p>
<p>Nice idea for a birthday gift. Best wishes to the whole Pizza family.</p>