My parents always hung broken clocks

[not_dustin_freeman]

Like, multiple stopped ones, for the holiday. Usually all on the same wall. (Though they weren’t really broken, just the batteries were taken out.)

Obviously these were analog clocks, like people had back in the day.

A stopped clock is always right on Re-Emergence Day, they’d say.

Was this a thing with just my family, or yours, too?

[likeclockwork]

My parents, too! I remember pulling them all down, winding the hands, and lining them up so we could pop all the batteries in just at midnight. Good times.

[Ultra Boy]

I remember one of my Mom's snobbby friends who had pieces of shattered sundials instead of clocks, always trying to outdo everyone else.

[ianbicking]

Like, multiple stopped ones, for the holiday. Usually all on the same wall. (Though they weren’t really broken, just the batteries were taken out.)

Obviously these were analog clocks, like people had back in the day.

OMG, mine totally did that too. The night before my dad would set each one to a time that was supposed to be some secret code for each member of the family, like the digits of our birthday added up, or our highest score in bowling for the year. After we figured it out we had to put on a blindfold try to pick ours off the wall and if we got it wrong then dad would throw balled up bread at us.

I had an irrational hatred of analog clocks so one year before everyone got up I replaced each clock with a digital clock duck taped to the wall and I cut out little numbers to tape on the front. My mom was pretty pissed when the wall "re-emerged" from underneath the wallpaper after we pulled the clocks off. But we kind of made a tradition of that too, anyone who could hit one of the bare patches with a breadball from across the room would get to divide that breadball in two for the final remerge/demerge celebration faceoff.

[ianbicking]

(My sister claims the whole remerge/demerge thing is just a hoax made up for Ansel Stevenson's concept album 10 hours to live 1000 hours to relive during the whole seance-for-the-month-of-Mercedonius bit in the middle, and that remerge/demerge didn't exist before 1973, but I don't really care, I think it's fun)

[dustinfreeman]

I had an irrational hatred of analog clocks so one year before everyone got up I replaced each clock with a digital clock duck taped to the wall and I cut out little numbers to tape on the front. My mom was pretty pissed when the wall "re-emerged" from underneath the wallpaper after we pulled the clocks off.

hahahahah