A Character in Time: Jeff Williams, Watch Store Clerk

Jeffery Renaynay Williams always hated time. To be more precise, he hated his constant lack of time. Jeff was mildly wealthy, but greedy man. He was so caught up in his work he barely spent any time on anything, or anyone, else in his day. Ironically enough, Jeff was also owns a watch store. One day, by chance he meets a old man who wishes to see his watches. Jeff is really stressed but reluctantly says OK.  After looking a lot at his watches, the man utters but one reply: “I see you have watches, but do you have the time?” After looking at the man strangely, Jeff is bewildered and thus buries himself back into his paper work.

Hours later Jeff sees the man has returned. “Have you got the time?” asks the old man. “Yea.. 7:50. If all you’re going to do is stand around and waste my time, don’t. Got it?” “JEFFERY WILLIAMS. YOU HAVE FAILED YOUR TEST.” “What test?” “The test to become a Master of Time.” “The test to become a Master of Time?” Jeff then had the divine revelation that he never spends enough time with his family. He has a flashback to when he was raised with 6 siblings in a bad part of town. Then he has a flashback about his wife and child, who is growing up without a father (Jeff lives somewhere else because of his job most of the year). He realizes that he should stop worrying about money so much. He thinks that maybe if he hadn’t learned, they would have to go on this whole adventure with chase scenes and action, with a  subplot about side characters romance, but dismissed the idea as childish play, and shooed the man from the store.

He moral is don’t spend all your time worrying about money. Greed is a bad habit that is hard to loose.