Mr. Nice Watch :)

Yea, Joel and Watches in the same sentence huh! If you know me at all, even surface level, then you know that I don’t accessorize in any shape or form. When the hip hop fad that was studs (earrings for gentlemen) came along, I found them ridiculous. They even came up with magnetic ones so you don’t have to pierce your ear and that did not make them any less ridiculous haha. My pal from campus, Luvusi sorry 😉

I never did chains on the neck or arms, nada! For the most part I have been a plain Joe, literally and figuratively speaking. The only time I even stayed with one for more than three months was sometime in high school when my dad bought me this golden metallic iced watch, ( ofcourse it was a knock off) but boy was it a beauty. It even got me the attention of the cool kids committee for like a whole term till they actually stole it and reduced me back to average blunt Joe.

I’ll be damned, this post is not even really about watches let alone nice ones but since the title cuts through that yard we might as well indulge right? Hahaha. Reminds me, one of my favorite contemporary hip hop artists, Jermaine Lammar Cole aka J Cole has a banger featuring Jay Z called Mr. Nice Watch. The hook goes something like ……

‘Nice watch

Nice watch (I know)

Nice watch

No more Mr Nice Guy, hello Mr Nice Watch’

I love that hook so much, it’s groovy and hella catchy. Now the clincher for me is usually this line

‘They say time is money, but really it’s not

If we ever go broke, then time is all we got…’

The first time I heard that line, I must admit it messed with me a little bit. You know how we have been schooled to the line, time is money for the longest? Yea, Jermaine undoing all of that in one single bar was cruel. See, it is, but then again it really ain’t. As he further articulates in the second line, that if you ever go broke, then time is all you have. Sorry I digress,we are not even dissecting Cole’s Mr. Nice watch in this one either but I couldn’t help but rope it in. I have always wondered in what shape or format I’d ever write about it.

I was actually hoping to piece together a one pager today on how I now have a watch, but since that is the maximum of a paragraph and creative writing requires you to be quick on your feet,so here we are hahaha! Remember my last post?

Something embarrassing happened. It’s when  I am finding the courage to talk about it. At the start line everyone had either a stop watch or a sports watch. I (friggin’ JOELFLASH) was the only one with a phone! I can be very unassuming and that of course in that very moment did not bother me. Looking back however, I realize if someone was on the sidelines looking at me fidgeting  and losing precious seconds trying to start my watch er sic.. phone,they would definitely cringe.

I am not necessarily saying that my not so stellar performance was because of lack of a proper digital monitoring device, but if push comes to shove that is the hill I am dying on. 

I went online, checked across different brands, quickly realized I am far, VERY FAR from the gadgets I would like to own whew! Some were even more expensive than my phone. I settled for something mid range. Not a knock off but gives proper statistics(unlike my retarded fitness app) and it quickly taught me a hard lesson! I have a whole blog post in the pipeline from that experience. Keep tuned!
I vowed not to make it complicated this year, I will pen literally anything, out of 10 pieces one or two will do de  ting. Till the next adios! ✌