My woes keeping time

I'm that girl who is always 5 minutes early. I'm at the show when doors open (two hours before the opener, 4 hours before the main event, in my defense I often get in free while you pay cover). I'm paranoid about being late. At home this means my cell phone is always in my front right pocket, ready to tell me the time. In Europe... well. I'm that girl who never knows what time it is.

I showed up to Europe 6.5 weeks (holy shaazam! 6.5 weeks!) ago with a travel alarm clock (stolen from my mother 4 years ago) and my great grandmothers windup clock necklace. If you've known me at all in the past 2 years you've seen me wear it tons of times. All is good right? WRONG. Two weeks in my necklace stops keeping time. Awesome. Not only do I not know what time it is I'm going to have to find a reputable clock smith when I get home who can fix my awesome antique watch. But I digress. Who cares if I don't know exactly what time it is. I have my alarm clock and computers so I can still wake up and make it places on time. Until June 8th when my alarm clock fell out of my clutch and bent juuust enough to ensure there is nothing to hold the battery in place. No big. I have my computer (and the internet has alarm clocks!). But then... hostel time came. So I bought another alarm clock in Amsterdam. Good to go!

But not quite. Less than a week later it's fallen out of my purse (just the alarm clock. If I got pick pocketed it sucks to be you b/c that thing was like 10 Euro and it ticked. Which just sucks). Yes! Again, I have no way to tell the time. I have since purchased a watch (and borrowed an alarm clock from my last hostel) in Berlin. It's hideous but I think I love it.

To the point of my rambles- Since the start of my trip I have lost or broken 3 different time pieces. Do you know how hard it is to find an alarm clock in a tourist shop?