It is Daylight Saving Time again. So last night I went around moving all the clocks forward an hour. That was when I discovered that our Daniel Pratt clock had stopped ticking. I tried to get it going again, but it would not run. Don’t believe me? Here is a movie of the clock not running.
As you can see, the clock is not ticking.
Oh. Still watching? OK. I’ll wait.
Hmmm. hmmm… dum de dum…..
Done yet? Seriously, you can watch it all day and it won’t do anything.
Anyway, DG said that the clock was protesting Daylight Saving Time. The clocks are fed up with being joggled and disturbed twice a year, he said, just because some bureaucrat in Washington has made a rule that we have to do that. “It’s a silly rule”, he said, and he has taken up the cause and is protesting in support of the clocks.
While he was doing that, I took the clock down to the bench and found this.
That is the cord that holds the weight that makes the clock go. It was all frayed and wrapped around the axle (sort of like DG). I replaced the cord with a new one, and the clock is now running nicely. It hardly even missed the loss of an hour because it spent a couple of hours in the Clock Hospital.
I showed the cord to DG and said, “Hey, DG. This is just like you!”, and he said, “No. I’m a frayed knot!”
HAHAHAHAHA
Sometimes I crack myself up.