Loss of Vigilance

One of my neighbours reported that he looked at his watch yesterday and saw a figure ‘1’ in the date box. He hadn’t noticed in time checks on Friday and Saturday that it had been showing ‘30’ then ‘31’.
    He blames losing the habit of winding on, or checking if he needs to do it, on two successive months with 31 days each.
    It also shows that he’s not one of those people with a compulsion to look at a portable phone every two seconds.