Have you felt the pressure of time this week? Time can be a massive pressure as we're talking about here, but I enjoyed the story this week of Porris Wittel, a dock worker in Gillingham, England. For 47 years--maybe you've had this experience--he hated his alarm clock.

For 47 years, early, in the dark, every morning that thing jangled him awake. For 47 years he longed to ignore it, to shut it off. And for 47 years he submitted to the pressure of that time, that clock. But on the day of his retirement he got his revenge. He took his alarm clock to work and he flattened it in an eighty-ton hydraulic press. He said, "It was a lovely feeling."