Since this turned out to be a long post, here’s the Cliff notes: bought a watch while traveling, overly helpful sales person sets it to my home city time, screws up my day and I miss my plane. Really is worth a read:

So while I was in Chicago on business, on the day before my return flight, I was taking spending my free time along the Magnificent Mile – Michigan Avenue. Which, may be magnificent to a lot of people, but when one lives in close proximity to Scottsdale, AZ, which is really one big expensive shopping mall, there was nothing really worth seeing. I ducked into the Northridge Mall to get out of the wind, and just wandered until I came across a Swatch store. I didn’t even know they were still making these things – I hadn’t seen them since the 80’s. Even the ones I’d seen people wearing recently I thought they were vintage. Not so!
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