for some people all it means is you are a clock watcher and you got into a habit of looking at the clock at intervals. There is a guy at the mental health unit last week who was a clock watcher. it started when he was a child and was put in time out. time outs lasted for a set amount of minutes. his mother or father would put him in a chair with a timer or the clock and point out to him on the clock how long he had to sit there. so his body got to the point where it was conditioned / trained to look at the time ever five minutes on the dot because his time outs as a child were 5 minutes. school kids do this too. I was in the school today and the school had their bells set at every hour. I was there just to observe while another crisis vollunteer was speaking to the class and the clock was located at the back of the room. within a couple minutes of the bell the students all stared to shuffle around getting their books and supplies put in their bags preparing for the bell. none of them turned around to look at the clock. They have just been conditioned/ trained for the classes to be an hour long and their bodys became their clock.