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  • Sponsored Post: 7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    Sponsored Post: 7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    Yeah. You messed up. Big time.

    But don’t worry, you’ve found the ultimate relationship advice column from a fat, single American. How do you fix everything? Do what any self-respecting American would do: Buy an expensive imported product for him or her!

    Not only do I have a sexy selection of timepieces to choose from, but I’ve got a watch for every specific screw-up. From offending your mother-in-law to skipping out on Sunday dinner with the extended family, there is a watch that will make things all better. So without further ado…

    1.  Screw-up: You burnt the roast you cooked for his boss coming over for dinner. Solution: The Mondaine Evo Chronograph watch.

    OK, so the turkey was slightly drier than Cousin Catherine’s rubberized masterpiece in Christmas Vacation. You know he’ll never retaliate by leaving the burgers on the grill too long with this Swiss chronograph from Mondaine watches.

    7 Reasons To Say Sorry With A Watch

    2.  Screw-up: You deleted Project Runway off of your TiVo. Solution: The Wenger Alpine Crystal watch.

    Alright, man—she’s not buying that you did it on “accident”, so stop trying to sell it. (We both know it was intentional anyway.) Any fashionista would be proud to sport this blinged-out lavender head-turner on her wrist. Eat your heart out, Heidi.

    7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    3.  Screw-up: You refused to let him go paintballing for a bachelor party. Solution: The Wenger Standard Issue XL watch.

    The only way to make sure he stayed in one piece and could still be the father of your futures kids was to not let him go. Now he refuses to do the yard work to get back at you. Get him this Wenger watch with its steel case and heavy duty strap, and he won’t be able to wait to try out its toughness while cleaning the gutters and re-shingling the roof.

    7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    4.  Screw-up: You faked an illness to skip the marriage retreat. Then she came home and found you drinking beer, smoking cigars and playing pinochle with your buddies. Solution: The Tense Sandalwood Digital watch.

    In your defense, all of the cigar smoke and Guinness did end up making you quite sick. But get her the latest from Tense watches, and she’ll be proud to wrap the all Maple piece around her wrist when you go on the nature hike. At the marriage retreat next weekend.

    7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    5.  Screw-up: You put his favorite watch through the washing machine and ruined it. Solution: The Casio G-Shock Retro-Vintage watch.

    Let’s face it—his old sports watch was grimy and filthy; it needed a good cleaning. How could you possibly be expected to not try and get sparkling again? Get him the brand that everyone who’s anyone in the hip-hop industry is rocking today. This all white G-Shock watch would be fit for the couch or one of Diddy Dirty Money’s white parties.

    7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    6.  Screw-up: You feel guilty that she just bought you a new white G-Shock. Solution: The Casio Baby-G Multifunction watch.

    She gave you such a baller watch that her nasty old leather piece looks awful. So getting her the matching model from Baby-G watches will score you some major points (Just in case you accidentally sell something she loves at your next yard sale).

    7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    7.  Screw-Up: You accidentally sell something he loves at your next yard sale. Solution: The Fossil Ansel watch.

    Hey, it goes both ways. So he’ll never have his old teddy bear, first baseball mitt or birth certificate ever again—he’ll get over it pretty quickly with this classy Fossil watch. It never needs a battery, so it will never stop living—just like your love, even after all of these mishaps.

    7 Reasons It Takes A Watch To Say Sorry

    Author Bio: Post contributed by Barrie on behalf of Watchco.

  • 7 Reasons That Sorry Isn’t The Hardest Word

    7 Reasons That Sorry Isn’t The Hardest Word

    Sorry is the hardest word*, we are led to believe.  But it isn’t.  It’s amongst the easiest.  Here are seven reasons why.

    The word sorry written in white on a red background

    1.  It’s Short.   There are far longer and more difficult words in the English language:  triskaidekaphobia, for example, or antidisestablishmentarianism.  They’re much trickier:  Try using them at a bar and you’ll inevitably trip over your tongue and come across as a slurring dunderhead, even if you’re not.

    2.  It’s Not Laden With Terror. Sorry; a hard word?  Try saying Coulrophobia.  It’s not only longer, with more syllables, but it evokes both clowns and fear.  Clowns!  Fear!  Yeah, that’s a harder word.  Say “Coulrophobia without stuttering.  Or shuddering.  Or checking over your shoulder.  Have a quick check now, you’ll feel better.

    3.  It’s Ubiquitous.  Politicians of all parties, and husbands who’ve got carried away at parties (if you will hold a party in a house next to a golf course, you’re asking for trouble) have spent many years proving that sorry is bloody easy to say.  It’s a lot easier to get the apology in early rather than spend years in the political wilderness, or doghouse (or actual wilderness if you’re married in Montana).  I’m tempted to say that nothing is easier to say than sorry. But that’s not true.  Sorry is easier to say than nothing.  It doesn’t have the tricky th sound in the middle and ends in a vowel.

    4.  Allusion.  You don’t even need to say “sorry” to say sorry; you can just hand over chocolates or flowers.  Which means that anyone with access to the local confectioner or graveyard can say sorry without saying anything at all.  Couldn’t be easier.

    5.  ComparisonPress, solid, rock, hulk, force, Chuck, iron, bang, kill, Norris, clap, strike, pound,   All harder words than sorry.  Every last one of them.  As is hard.

    6.  Fired.  I’ve had to tell people that I’ve fired over the years many things.  And trust me, sorry was almost always the easiest part of the statement.  Easier than incompetent, feckless, unreliable, dishonest, tardy, lazy and unstable (which is not a crap version of the seven dwarves, by the way). “I’m sorry, we’re going to have to let you go.  It’s not that we have a problem with you personally, or the standard of your work, it’s more the thousands of pounds that you’ve embezzled from the company during your time here.  Sorry.”

    7.  Nationality.  Because I’m an Englishman and, to me, sorry is the default word.  It just pops-out whenever anything unexpected happens.  Someone bumps into me: “Sorry”.  Someone tries to put their letter through my hand while I’m using a post-box:  “Sorry”.  Someone drives their 4×4 at me on the pavement because the road isn’t wide enough: “Sorry (though it is sarcastic in this case)”.  Sorry is the easiest word.  It’s just there.  Saying itself, even when you don’t want it to.

    *There is an Elton John and Bernie Taupin song entitled Sorry Seems to be the Hardest Word.  This is coincidental.  It is not Elton John week at 7 Reasons(.org).  Nor is it Bernie Taupin week.  Sorry about that.