You're constantly reminded to check the hour in case you have an appointment to keep

Sure, and lungs are like handcuffs to air, they constantly remind you to breathe.

Not if you are a lobster, than it is a clawcuff.

You are now breathing manually.

Kind of missing the whole locked on to your wrist theme.

Chronos knows what he's doin

you might enjoy Cortazar's Preamble to the Instructions on How to Wind a Watch

Does that mean a pocket watch is a ball and chain to time?

Reminding you that you're late to your business meeting at Red Lobster.

augh could you please not

Analogies are never perfect.

Or like a compass, allowing you to steer the vortex of time perception :3

I know what happens there!

if we don't find that time handcuff then bdsm will never be invented!

But did you know you can always see the tip of your nose?

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That title is the kind of thing the Matthew McConaughey's character in True Detective would say.