Or is it just me? It's extremely annoying. I buy a brand new watch with a brand new battery, and after wearing it for a few days to a few weeks, it's dead.

The weirdest thing that happened was a few months ago I was in the mall when I noticed my watch had stopped. Conicidentally, I was right outside a jewelry shop. So I had the battery replaced, the watch was working again, then after walking around for about 5 minutes, the watch stopped.
So I gave up on it, and when I went home put the watch away in a drawer and forgot about.

Then, about 2 weeks ago, I was looking in the drawer for something, so I noticed that the watch had restarted by itself. I put it on again, and wouldn't you know, it stopped after less than a day.

I just bought a new watch yesterday. How long do you think it will last?

I also set off the walk-through security alarms in shops sometimes, even though I haven't taken anything, which is embarassing and annoying because I have to stop and be searched. The security people are always nice, though.

Is it just me?

You must have a magical aura or something, don't let any parapsychologists know, they'll want to do tests on you.

Oh. I was hoping for a scientific explanation.

But thank you.

There is, just buy a plastic digital one.

Oh, I stop those the fastest. The more expensive, generally the longer they last. I'm lucky if a cheap plastic one would last me a whole day.

What about those posh mechanical ones that wind themselves up as you move around?

Marcia- I found a website that has a scientific(?) explanation. It claims that many people who have had near death experiences make watches stop. Did you have a NDE

Here's the link

http://www.mindspring.com/~scottr/nde/watches.html

No, I have never had a near death experience

It's some kind of weird static electric thing. I'm always getting shocked or shocking someone. Sometimes I even get blue sparks coming out of my fingers.

I can stop watches by screwing up the flow of time... but I suppose thats because I am a Time Lord...

Yeah that's definately your magical aura, must be, all the signs are there; that's your magical aura that is.