Posted by brandonthedeveloper at June 17th, 2007

I don’t really watch much TV but I admit a few nights a week I enjoy having a couple beers and yelling at the cable ‘make believe’ news channels.

A few years back my kids got tired of hearing me nag them about constantly losing/ruining/destroying the TV remote so they bought me a watch with a built in TV remote. No more lost remotes. No more “we took out the batteries so now you have reprogram the thing if you want to use it”. I always had it with me and I could even see the time. Amazing.

Last November, someone stole that watch from my wife’s purse at a very crowded blues festival. We tried ordering others but Casio had stopped making the TV Remote watch and we just couldn’t get a hold of one. Dang.

Fast forward to last week. My kids wanted to buy me a new watch because I had been using my phone as my watch for the last six months. My daughter and I were at Target and decided to look at watches for “gift ideas for father’s day”. When we had come to the end of the Mens Watches:

Daddy – “Well that’s the end of the mens watches and I’m not gonna wear a ladies watch.”
Maddy – “You wouldn’t wear a ladies watch? What if it had a TV remote?”
Daddy – “hmmm”
Maddy – “What if it was blue? That’s your favorite color.”
Daddy – “Well.. yeah.”
Maddy – “What if the watch sprayed beer?”
Daddy – “Don’t even tease about such a thing”

Six years old. Wow that kid knows me. :)
Sorry to say we were not able to find such a wonderful gift but they got me a watch with a built in heart rate monitor I can use to alert me while I’m running that I need to pick up the pace. ;)

Happy Father’s Day.