I always wondered how I could constantly be surrounded by imperfect clocks and their irregular second hands. The BBC reports:
You'll be in the middle of something, and flick your eyes up to an analogue clock on the wall to see what the time is. The second hand of the clock seems to hang in space, as if you've just caught the clock in a moment of laziness. After this pause, time seems to restart and the clock ticks on as normal.