Timothy didn't know what the time was because he had lost his watch.
Timothy asked a stranger for the time.
The stranger said "It is 7 minutes after the hour of 11am, my friend!"
Timothy thanked the stranger and got about doing various morning-chores.
What Timothy didn't realise, however, was that the stranger was a Notorious Liar:
It was, in fact, 12 minutes after the hour of 3pm.
This meant that Timothy missed his grandmother's cremation.
The end.
