Bust of Bob

Our clock stopped, yet time hasn’t.  Disorienting to see it’s seventeen minutes to seven at eight oh five (According to the stove.)

Siri names three Billings jewelries.  They fix mantle clocks?  I call Howard Miller Clocks in Zeeland, Michigan.

After four minute wait, “Curt” gives me name and number of local clock repairer.

They are open.  I find them behind an unmarked door upstairs at Dees Used Furniture.  Woman my age says to expect a call tomorrow morning.

Mantle clock is 14 years old, never oiled or cleaned.  Instructions (never read) says every two years.

Disorienting to see a space instead of a clock, so I put a bust of Bob to soothe my eye.