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Bored Much?

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| by Nancy Thomas |
I
hate being bored, so for your anti-boredom pleasure, I created this helpful
list of things to do to relieve your couch-potato-ness.
- Call grocery stores and ask them if they sell budgies.
- Learn an obscure language off the internet and start adding it to
your everyday vocabulary.
- Run tests on the holding potential of socks — can a tube sock
hold milk? jello? flour? All three?
- Write a short note to a famous celebrity. Cut out a picture of their
face and paste it to the envelope. Include a return envelope with a
picture of your face. Mail it out and see if you get any reply.
- Call poison control and ask them what would happen to you if you "accidentally"
ate a piece of the phone you're talking on. To make it really effective,
chew on some ice cubes during the conversation then make some staticky
sounds and hang up.
- Have a bumper sticker made that reads "I hate my neighbours"
and apply it to your neighbour's bumper at night. Make sure to go out
in the morning and act really offended when he comes out to get his
newspaper.
- At home or in a locked office, photocopy your butt (clothing optional)
then take the copy to a public photocopier and leave it inside ready
to print.
- Get a disposable camera and some barbie clothes. Take them home and
dress up your big toe and do a little photo shoot. Make sure to add
some yarn for hair and draw a happy face on your toenail. Drop the film
off at a one-hour service and make sure to tell them that it's a very
important film and you'd like it checked for accuracy.
- Next time you receive a message for your spouse or roommate, write
the message out on small post-it notes with one word per note. Proceed
to distribute the message around your house with arrows pointing in
the general direction of the next note.
- Buy a matchbox car, go to your local car dealership, show the salesman
your car and tell him you'd like one exactly like that with the same
options and paint colour. Tell him you especially appreciate the location
of the cup holder.
- Plant some mouse evidence around your home for a couple days then
buy a fake toy mouse and place it under your spouse's/roommate's over-turned
shoe. Sit back and laugh.
- Go buy as many inflatable swimming accessories as possible. Go to
the beach and proceed to put on as many as possible. You may even go
so far as to duct tape the ones that are just meant to be pool toys.
Proceed to the walk down the beach making as many rubbing-plastic sounds
as you
can.
- Get some fist-sized rocks and arrange them on your lawn to look like
crop circles. Explain to people that the lead guitarist of the alien
rock band gave you directions, however, he may have been stoned at the
time.
- See how much sucking power your vacuum's extension has — take
it outside and try to weed your garden. Not enough power? Re-wire it
yourself!
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