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Give difficult child grandpa's watch or not to? About trust and self-preservation
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 562749" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Someone stealing watch from difficult child is not something I would be worried. He is not sharing his flat with anyone but his girlfriend, he doesn't have much friends and his girlfriend's friends tend to be PCs. If someone would want to be mean, they would say that only thief my difficult child is hanging out with is a one he sees in his bathroom mirror at mornings while brushing his teeth. And if anyone would steal something from him the new watch would be much more in danger. Even a dimwit teen can figure out that a watch at a brand you see on new Bond movie or advertised with coolest F1 drivers is worth something. With my grandpa's watch you have to know something about them to know, it has some monetary value. I'm not at all sure that even difficult child does know that. And of course old watch is more difficult to sell. Most tempting thing for stealing would in fact be sports watch/computer (heart rate, GPS etc. device, I'm not sure what they are called in English) that difficult child uses daily (if he uses watch at all.) They are easy to sell, difficult to track and so common no one thinks twice when buying used sports/running watch/computer. And everyone also do know the prices.</p><p></p><p>It would probably make sense to give a watch to difficult child when he is more mature. But on the other hand, it wasn't a gift to mature man, but a boy taking his first wobbly steps to manhood at the first time it was given. Even if that boy had to grow up very quickly after that because of the world events. Still it is a traditional gift to a boy, not a man.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 562749, member: 14557"] Someone stealing watch from difficult child is not something I would be worried. He is not sharing his flat with anyone but his girlfriend, he doesn't have much friends and his girlfriend's friends tend to be PCs. If someone would want to be mean, they would say that only thief my difficult child is hanging out with is a one he sees in his bathroom mirror at mornings while brushing his teeth. And if anyone would steal something from him the new watch would be much more in danger. Even a dimwit teen can figure out that a watch at a brand you see on new Bond movie or advertised with coolest F1 drivers is worth something. With my grandpa's watch you have to know something about them to know, it has some monetary value. I'm not at all sure that even difficult child does know that. And of course old watch is more difficult to sell. Most tempting thing for stealing would in fact be sports watch/computer (heart rate, GPS etc. device, I'm not sure what they are called in English) that difficult child uses daily (if he uses watch at all.) They are easy to sell, difficult to track and so common no one thinks twice when buying used sports/running watch/computer. And everyone also do know the prices. It would probably make sense to give a watch to difficult child when he is more mature. But on the other hand, it wasn't a gift to mature man, but a boy taking his first wobbly steps to manhood at the first time it was given. Even if that boy had to grow up very quickly after that because of the world events. Still it is a traditional gift to a boy, not a man. [/QUOTE]
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