Cord Watch

One of the dangers of schooling is that you run the risk of becoming too smart for your own britches.  That happened to me in 9^th grade after my first year of algebra.  Let me explain.  I had a watch that my father gave me for Christmas that gained time.  To be more specific, it gained exactly 3 hours and 18 minutes a day.  I would set the watch first thing in the morning, but it gained so much time that by mid-morning it was useless.  So, I quit wearing it.  But in algebra, I learned proportions and developed a plan.  So, I set my watch at 7 am each morning.  When someone asked me what time it was, I looked at my watch, and for example, it would say 10 am.  I used my algebra formula to calculate the deviation, minus the perceived time, added to 7 am, and I arrived at the real time of 9:42 am.  The problem was that only a couple of geeks in algebra class were impressed.  No one else was impressed because it took a notebook, complicated math, and several minutes to tell them the time of day.  Solomon said in Proverbs 29:23, “A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.”  It would have been much better for me to have put the watch in a drawer, or to have gotten it fixed than to have used my math skills to show off.  But then again, that was when I was fifteen and knew everything.  Now that I am seventy, I know less and less about more and more.  Hey, refer to the verse above.  Anyone want to join me in the humility part?