It’s been ten years since I’ve worn a watch—about the time I
started carrying a cell phone. (Yeah, I got into the cell phone thing a little
later than everyone else). Up until that point, I’d worn a watch almost
constantly since about age six. I only took it off occasionally to look at the
pasty white mark on my skin that never saw sunlight.
Not sure why that was important, other than it showed how
dark the rest of my skin was, which usually wasn’t that dark.
But after getting a cell phone, I couldn’t really justify
buying a new watch when my old one broke. So, I just stopped wearing one.
The first summer without my watch, the white band on my
wrist began to go away. I’ve never really had a problem with getting sunburned,
my skin just slowly darkens. So, I didn’t worry about the bleached skin burning
and thought by the end of the summer it would be completely gone. But it
wasn’t. And it was still there the next year too. And the next. In fact, it’s
still there, ten years later. It is pretty faint now but noticeable. Enough that people have asked me
if I forgot my watch that day. They never seem to believe me when I tell them I
don’t wear a watch.
I don’t know why the skin doesn’t get darker there. It’s
almost like the pigment is gone and there’s nothing for the sun to bake.
I also thought I would get used to not wearing a watch, and
I sort of did. If I need to see the time, I usually reach for my phone. But,
occasionally, when I catch sight of the slightly whitened band around my wrist,
I still find myself checking for the time. Crazy? Maybe. And maybe in another
ten years or so, the mark will go away and I won’t be checking my arm for the
time. Or, I could actually figure out that I don’t wear a watch by then, you
never know!
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Bruce A. Borders is the author of more than a dozen
books, including: Inside Room 913, Over My Dead
Body, The Journey, Miscarriage Of Justice, and
The Wynn Garrett Series. Available in ebook and paperback on iTunes,
Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords, or at www.bruceabordersbooks.weebly.com.
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Bruce A. Borders also serves as the Vice-President of Rave Reviews Book Club.
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