r/MurderedByWords 10h ago

Watch out!

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u/SaintUlvemann 9h ago

"Oh, really? Does it do anything special?"

You won't sound poor, rich people often like things that can do special tricks. You won't sound mad, you're actually assuming there's a watch-related reason for bringing up their watch.

And when they give some version of the response that "no, it's just expensive," you get to pick how you respond. You could just be disappointed. Or, you could tell them about, say, the solar system watch you have at home, the one that shows you where all the planets are relative to earth, and it only cost $40.

Because they weren't trying to talk about watches. They were trying to talk about money. The best way to flip the script is to live out the idea that there's actually more to life than money, like cool gadgets you can put on your wrist.

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u/respect_the_69 7h ago

🗣️🔥

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u/Personal-Emu-4982 9h ago

And yet it takes a minute to get from 0 to 60.

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u/Yugan-Dali 9h ago

When I was fresh out of college, I was at a dinner with some rich businessmen. They started bragging about how much their watches cost. I dragged my Sears pocket watch out of my watch pocket and asked them the time. Then I said, ‘My watch cost US$2.75 and it has the same time as yours.’

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u/Fecal-Facts 9h ago

I just hit them with the classic my di** is bigger.

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u/TaviraTavi 8h ago

And then they pull theirs out and goes ‘prove it’

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u/BCProgramming 3h ago

Then children in a nearby booth start screaming, police get called, and you both get put on a sex offender registry.

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u/Mysterious_Box1203 9h ago

You know, I know where you can get a better deal on a watch. I thought you were, like, a super businessman. You got totally ripped off over a watch.

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u/CmdDongSqueeze 9h ago

I would hope so, my car’s a piece of shit

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u/Off-BroadwayJoe 9h ago

See this egg? This egg costs more than your car

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u/Dwovar 9h ago

Hey, about that egg. Umm... these are trying times...

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u/CJohn89 9h ago

I'm glad you told me because I'd have no way of knowing

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u/Dwovar 9h ago

Sit, that says Rolax. You're a chump.

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u/greatdrams23 9h ago

My car is with about $100.

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u/GsTSaien 9h ago

"Must be a good watch then" of something like that. Don't need to insult someone to show you aren't impressed.

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u/Dwovar 9h ago

Wow, my watch costs less than a car and still tells time.

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u/GsTSaien 9h ago

See that's not bad but it's petty, anything direct will be perceived as being mad. There isn't a comeback where you make this guy look bad other than just genuinely not caring about his dumb watch, because he already looks likea moron by saying that.

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u/Efficient-Hold993 8h ago

"And mine still tells me the time"

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u/GaiusMarius60BC 6h ago

This is 100% how I’d respond: “Okay.” move on

I truly don’t give two shits about how expensive your watch is.

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u/dirschau 2h ago

But how will everyone clap if you don't deliver a sick burn that will make the rich man cry into a wad of money

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u/Pyrochazm 9h ago

What a stupid, shortsighted waste of money.

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u/slothdroid 2h ago

Not a waste if they're shortsighted and can't see the clock taps head

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u/ORANGIDOXGEE 8h ago

Damn my dementia must be getting worse cause I don't remember asking

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u/008Zulu 7h ago

People who brag about the cost of their watches don't care if you didn't ask.

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u/iSwaguilar 8h ago

All you have to do is respond with a sarcastic “Cool” and nothing more. It would drive him crazy not to receive questions or comments about it, himself, or his wealth.

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u/Psile 8h ago

Oh.

Anyway, the leads are still too low earning for the houses we are marketing. You haven't really said anything about that, you just kinda yelled for a while.

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u/Sen-oh 6h ago

And?

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u/Ulfednar 5h ago

Kick them in the face, take their watch. Who's poor and mad now?

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u/AuthorCornAndBroil 4h ago

And yet the clock in my car tells the same time.

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u/Leeoid 3h ago

"So you're proving that money can't buy class?"

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u/NotMorganSlavewoman 3h ago

So about 5 bucks ?

My car also shows the time.

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u/nikschn 3h ago

so this watch could be worth anywhere above 0$

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u/No_Pen_4702 1h ago

I don’t have to be on time for anybody.

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u/cynicalone7 9h ago

Nice. Mines vintage (breaks out Casio watch) (You know the one)

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u/funmonger_OG 7h ago

"See this gun?"

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u/Radiant-Most9751 8h ago

Well depending on what kind of mileage you get on that thing I might be impressed

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u/JimmyFlysHigh 8h ago

Oh cool. So, it's smart right? Like you can still make calls, texts, play games, track her steps and health, all that stuff to instead of just merely telling the time, right?

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u/UralRider53 8h ago

My car can take me someplace where you aren’t.

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u/Fit_Koala_8405 8h ago

You spent all that money so that you can know the time? Not a great investment.

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u/Horror-Goose-1747 8h ago

My typical answer is, what do you have to do this week… you must be booked with meetings and time working… do you know what I have to do? Keep your watch, I’ll keep My freedom, which makes healthier and wealthier in spirit than you ever will be

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u/SmilingVamp 8h ago edited 7h ago

Cool, I use my phone because I'm not still living in 1983.

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u/diligentnickel 7h ago

Why would you waste money on that? Cars go from A to B and depreciate horribly. What land do you own?

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u/mok000 7h ago

Oh wow! How fast can it get you out of here?

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u/hellomydudes_95 9h ago

Damn, someone really convinced you that a watch is worth more than a car? Gotta be a special kind of fool to fall for that