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| Barrett models real Rolexes plus the Walmart possibilities |
When I last posted, I was rendering unto Rolex that thing which was Rolex's for an estimate of the cost of repairs and contemplating life ahead without my watch. Barrett was contemplating it too, and so she wrote the following, titled It's
About Time. . .My Life With (and without ) My Luxury Watch
You should take that $800 right to Walmart (or maybe
it was Lowes ) and buy 40 more Disney-themed watches. Then you could put on a new one each time the battery on the one you’re wearing
gives out— for, say, the rest of your life! And just think of the money you
will save by not having to spring for another 40 + years of
repair work on your real Rolex!
OMG! Or: We can use the money you’ll save to fund one of
those “true life” docudramas that covers your life from when you got your
first Rolex ‘til some future date, when you’ll be wearing one of the 40
Disneys on your wrist next to your Rolex , which has finally
given up the ghost.
In the last, fade-to-black scene as your life story is
obviously coming to an end, you and the Rolex representative who took us to
lunch in Manhattan are sitting side by side in your respective wheelchairs in
the nursing home, and the Rolex rep is now part of the
family. He’s spent so much time with you
over the years trying to get your Rolex working that you and he have become
husband and wife…( I do hope you saved the man’s card so we
can find him and cast him.)
With your great and great grandchildren at your knees,
surrounding you and pretending to listen to your “glory days” stories which
they've heard a hundred times, you hold your watch hand aloft and assume
that “crooked little finger “ pose you used to strike when looking
proudly at your expensive timepiece. (I’m not sure you still do it now.
I loved that pose—you tell me!) You and husband snort and chuckle while you try to
remember your days on Everest, exploring Russia with Al and Tipper, in the
water wearing your Rolex while Chuck makes his moves on you, on the road with
Travis, interviewing Clint and Meryl. . .( FYI: Who says your autobiography
won’t sell? Only you!!)
Sound Great? Our award winning documentary will sell in
concert with your book, of course. Rolex will love the concept. The film will
premiere at Cannes. Got that? Why not? You’ve got the chops, and we got
the time—all that Heaven will allow.
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| Timepiece choice for the present: Saddam or Mickey. Barrett says my arm looks like a corpse. |
