Nah. They just figure out eventually one of them is kind of wonky and ignore it. Or maybe both are, so they end up just looking at the stove clock.

Also you can't tell a story just with the Aesop ending - you have to tell the fable and END with that line.

I can't find the fable.

I found “Segals Law” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segal%27s_law

Ah, no, the misunderstanding was with something else. Apparently "Aesop ending" is a keyword/crossword definition. It means "the moral of the story" :-)

So what I’m hearing is “Get three or more watches.”.