In the 1960s and 1970s, when I was young, watches were still valuable items that many people dreamed of and could not be expected. Because of the difficulties in life at that time, the income was generally low, the average wage of office workers was tens of yuan, the daily value of the farmers was even less than a dime, and the watch was at least more than one hundred yuan. Food and clothing have not yet been solved, how easy is it to spend so much money to buy a watch?
Therefore, at that time, the basic people who wore watches were wage earners, and although many people's wages were not high, they also had to buy a watch to save money and money, and the picture was to commute to work to see the convenience of the hour. As for the peasants facing the loess and facing the sky, the sunrise and sunset rest, the time is not time is useless, when the need to look at the sun is enough.
My parents are at work and both have watches. I remember my mother cooking or washing clothes and taking off my watch on the windowsill, I would run up and pick it up and put it on my ear to listen to the even and pleasant clicking sound. Sometimes, I will curiously put it on my wrist, but I can't hold up the slender strap at all, and I can only slowly pull it up until I pass the elbow to barely fix it.
Although I don't know how the watch looks at the time, I think the watch is very interesting, and I always like to play with it when I have the opportunity. At that time, Dad was working in Hubei and had family leave every year, and when Dad came back from visiting home that year, I gently stroked his watch and asked timidly; Dad, when will I be able to put on my watch?
Dad smirked and grimaced at me: "It's not difficult, I'll be able to meet your requirements soon." As he spoke, he rolled up my sleeves and carefully drew them on my wrist with a ballpoint pen. I felt tickled, like a little bug crawling slowly. Dad pressed and let me insist, and after a while the watch was drawn, with a bracelet, a dial, a needle, a vivid image, and a vivid appearance.
I looked at my watch on my wrist, rejoiced, elated, and immediately ran to my grandfather and grandmother to show it. Grandpa deliberately asked: What time is it? I pretended to look at my wrist and casually answered a number, which caused everyone to laugh.
Enough to show off at home, I ran to the street to fool the children. Children are very envious, not a few days, some children have a wrist on the wrist have a painted watch, what shape, the hand points to what time. Although they knew it was fake, they all felt very satisfied and happy.
After going to school, I have my own ballpoint pen and pen, and my classmates often draw watches with each other, some blue, black, and even red, some paint on the left hand, some paint on the right hand, and some on both hands, and even one on the arm to draw two, colorful, is good-looking.
At that time, the childhood of not painting a watch was certainly not a perfect childhood.
In this way, I kept drawing watches on my wrists and looking forward to a better future, and I gradually grew up. In 1980, after going to high school in the county, in order to be able to grasp the time at any time and facilitate work and rest, my mother spent more than one hundred and twenty yuan to buy me a Shanghai brand watch. Wearing the real watch that I have been longing for for a long time, I am passionate and have mixed feelings.
Nowadays, mobile phones display the hour, and the time function of watches is increasingly weakened. However, I often think of the experience of drawing a watch on my wrist when I was a child, which was a simple happiness and a desire to grow. Whenever I think about it, I feel very satisfied, very relieved, as if I have returned to the carefree, innocent childhood.