Nothing funny about feldspar

Dear Timex,

I get what you’re trying to do, and I don’t like it one little bit. First, you use a weird size battery, so I can’t get it at my local grocery. Then you make it virtually impossible to open the back. That little tab on my watch is now rounded over with me trying to use successively smaller screwdrivers to pry the thing off. I finally, after about an hour of effort (this after having tried every day for a week), got it off, and replaced the battery.

But now I cannot get the damned back on again. I think it’s the O-ring, or maybe the back got bent slightly out of true when I popped it off. But one side goes in, but I can’t snap the other in. Not even with careful application of multiple pliers.

So this is your intention: for me to go buy a new watch. Well, I will. But not a Timex.

Sincerely,
Orthoclase