SWEET TEA: Scout watch took lickin', still tickin'
This old Boy Scout Timex strapped to my wrist has taken far more than one licking, not to mention several trips through Mama's washing machine.
- By Jay Grelen
March 7, 2009
For the last 20 years or so, the band-less watch has traveled from state to state in a wooden box it shared with early 1900s silver dollars and my high school ring. Thursday, when I took the watch back to Vicki, it was still ticking. She dug out an olive-green band with a red stripe down the middle. And the watch is back on my wrist.
This old Boy Scout Timex strapped to my wrist has taken far more than one licking, not to mention several trips through Mama's washing machine.