Passing Time

When I taught 4th grade many years ago, I had a saying on the wall right above the clock:

Time will pass, will you?

I have a clock in every room, so I can keep tabs on the time. Recently my downstairs clock has stopped keeping regular time. I changed the battery, and it ran fine for a couple of days. Then it became erratic again. Yesterday Audrey discovered why. She came around the corner to see Austin standing right near the clock. In five minutes the clock had advanced thirty minutes. Audrey asked Austin if he had changed the clock. He said, "I wanted it to be three o'clock." She inquired if he'd changed it any other times. "Yes," he said, "Yesterday I wanted it to be five o'clock."

If only it were so easy.