good timing
I have been looking around for a new watch for a little while now. There are so many different designs - round face, oblong face, numbers, no numbers - but I couldn’t find one that I really liked. Then on Monday, I was at Woden when I walked past a watch shop and thought I’d have a quick look. I found my new watch right away. I was so happy and after thinking for a minute, decided that this was definitely going to be my new watch.
So I handed over my EFTPOS card and waited while the guy took a couple of links out of the metal band to make it fit my wrist better. I was standing there waiting, looking around when I see a familiar face. A (homeless) guy I have seen before is stopped by a woman who sees his “Big Issue” bag and wants to buy a magazine from him. He must be on the way to his vendor spot and he smiles when she wants to buy one before he is even set up.
I am standing there idly watching this as I hold my (cheap) old watch in my hands, looking at it. I bought this watch a few months ago as a fill-in, because my good watch had died and I couldn’t find a new one I liked. Then the Big Issue vendor comes over to the counter and asks me - do I know what time it is. I look at the cheap watch in my hands and I think about him without a watch (or much else) and me spending $180 so easily, just because the “silver” is coming off my $20 K Mart watch. So I tell him the time then I offer him my old watch. He asks me how much do I want for it, and I give him a smile and tell him - it’s yours.
His eyes smile at me but his face is more guarded. He seems a little taken aback. I know he appreciates it. I know it wasn’t a big thing for me to do, but it makes me happy inside. Maybe people can ask him the time from now on.
He needed a watch and I had one I didn’t need any more, and we met by chance at just the right moment. That’s good timing.
Excellent timing, well done
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You are so sweet! Isn’t it nice to “pay it forward” sometimes:)
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