Time Flies Like An Arrow, Fruit Flies Like A Banana And My Clocks Are Up To Something

My analogue watch and clocks are playing silly-buggers with me.

Whenever I glance at them, they realise they’ve been caught, stop their second hand from going backwards, and start them going around clockwise the way they should. It usually takes them one second to realise they’ve been sprung. I’ve never seen them take two, and sometimes it’s a little under a second.

What I can’t work out is how they are managing to keep the correct time at all. And don’t you go telling me it’s some optical watchimacallit. It’s real I tells ya and if you haven’t seen the effect, it only means your clocks are less rascally than mine.