I don’t know where to start this story! Alright....I got
a sky box recently, one of those U.S. addresses that allow you to shop online and
have it delivered then brought to your door by a local service provider. Among
my first online purchases, a pair of Ecco boots and a Nixon watch.
Now I first saw the
Nixon brand while window shopping at Barney’s Loft in New York in 2010. I fell
in love immediately and coveted one ever since. I was able to afford one last week and it arrived a few days later. I have been dying to share my excitement
with someone as the brand isn't that popular yet in these parts.
The first day I wore
the watch I walked in to the RED96.7 studio and host and man about town, Kwesi Hypa Hoppa Hopkinson, had on a Nixon cap. I was again immediately excited and
bursting to share the news of my new acquisition.
Today I managed the
nerve to say to him, hey I got a Nixon! In that way that Trinis do he say “you
late…I have about five”. I went on to tell him, trying to save face, that I had
known the brand since 2010 but was only now able to afford one. He said he’d
been wearing the brand since about 2008 and went on to say he’d moved on to
owning Breitling’s and has his eyes set on a Hublot and a Rolex! Lol!
You ain’t see I was
fass and outta place to think that of all people Hoppa would have been the one
to share in my joy?
All the same I like my
watch and despite my bruised ego will continue to prize it as something to be
proud of…I mean after three years my attraction to the brand didn't wane and
that must mean love in some way.
LOL. This reminds me of a joke from Cedric the Entertainer. He was at the mall and showing off a brand new gold watch to a friend when the man told him, "You still wearing gold dawg? I moved on to platinum." According to Cedric, only black people could make a mineral ore go out of style!
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