Tick Tock Let’s Wind Up The Clock

My first thought in seeing the today’s prompt ‘Tick Tock’ was the nursery rhyme:

Tick Tock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
Tick Tock
The mouse ran down.

But as I typed this I realized it was not Tick Tock but ‘Hickory Dickey Dock‘ the mouse ran up the clock.

In my defence, the clocks in those days must have went tick tock at some point. After all the little ditty has been around for centuries. :)

With the onslaught of today’s digital equipment the tick Tocking of the old clocks has gone the way of the cuckoo bird unless one purchases a vintage clock.

I don’t miss the old alarm clocks that had to be wound each night and lulled you to sleep with their tick tocking until they needed to be wound again. My father had one beside this bed and used it all his life. As long as you wound them up faithfully those clocks worked for years.

Take a look at that word ‘wound’. I’m using it as a verb to explain about winding up manually an old clock with a key or handle but ‘wound’ can also be used as a noun means a cut or injury to living tissue.

‘Wind’ is also one of the many words in the English language that has a different meanings. One can wind a clock by turning the key or handle at the back but ‘wind ’ is also the movement of air.

...end of five minute freewrite with prompt Tick Tock

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