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Direct Answer The transcript’s main practice is simple time-awareness tied to responsibility—watching the “clock” and acting when it’s time; it implies watchfulness matters because drifting happens quietly through engrossment.

Support from Transcript:

• Andy shows early watchfulness: “Andy kept glancing nervously at the clock.”
• He even makes a concrete decision point: at two o’clock he announces he must leave.
• The subtle failure is not hatred of duty but absorption: “so engrossed in the game that he didn’t notice the time.”
• Time passes unnoticed: “Two thirty passed, then three… When three thirty rolled around…”
• The consequence of unwatchfulness is sudden and final: “The people wanted to see it at four.”

Discussion Follow-ups The transcript doesn’t list early Christian practices or give reasons beyond the story’s lesson. What “clock-checks” (regular self-examination, reminders, planned stopping points) could keep you from the same quiet drift?