Note: As we all know, night hours are
dangerous when it comes to slacker activity, because you might get a second
wind and actually accomplish something, and we don’t want to ruin our personal
goal of contributing absolutely nothing to society for one day. (I almost blew
it with the near-arrest for public-indecency, as my incarceration would
temporarily improve the quality of life on city streets. At least those streets
that lead to bars.) Therefore, we must be especially diligent and restrict our
efforts to only those activities with minimal or even negative value. And here
we go…
(If you need to read this series from the
beginning, click Here.)
41. Go into the bathroom, flip the toilet paper so it
unrolls the other way, then leave. Wait for eventual commentary.
42. Count the number of items in your refrigerator that
contain cheese in one form another. Briefly realize that this might be a reason
why you have to grunt when you get out of chairs. Decide that you don’t care
and slam the door.
43. See how long you can sprawl on the couch and stare
out the window before you get a cramp.
44. Get a black felt-tip marker, take out a box of
cereal, and scribble across the front: “Why don’t these things have prizes anymore?”
Put the box back and throw the marker in a corner.
45. Watch the cat attack the marker with a determination
that you have never felt in your entire life.
46. Wonder what it would be like if you could pounce at
will and there were no complications from doing such. Would you still have the
same friends?
47. Take the marker away from the cat once he pries the
cap off and starts scribbling an EKG readout on the kitchen floor.
48. Listen as the cat goes into the other room and starts
clawing furniture because you are stifling him as an artist.
49. Go into your clothes closet with the mission of
finally getting rid of all those things you can no longer wear. Run across your
“Frankie Say Relax” t-shirt. It’s now 400 sizes too small and there are more
holes in it than Mitt Romney’s campaign. But you can’t possibly part with it
and this mission is doomed. Leave.
50. Decide that you want to listen to some 80’s music.
Turn on the radio and, after frantically switching stations, discover that said
music is now considered “Golden Oldies” and you can only find it on satellite
radio, usually on a station hosted by Nina Blackwood as she shuffles to the
microphone using a walker. Cry a little bit.
51. Wonder how many people reading this post will
actually get these references.
52. Wonder how many people understand that MTV used to
play music videos.
53. Turn on the TV to find out what IS playing on MTV
these days. Get distracted by clicking on a movie that you don’t recognize,
starring people that you don’t know, and featuring a non-existent plot
comprised of folks doing nothing other than standing around and trying to
jump-start new catch-phrases while promoting products that no one really needs.
Realize that the main character is actually an extended car-crash sequence.
54. Wonder if actual screen writers have been banned from
Hollywood. Is this something else
that the Bush Administration destroyed? Giggle at the thought of how the
current Republican Party is pretending the Shrub Administration never took
place. Stop giggling when you realize that people are stupid and Romney could
get elected and eventually we’ll have to overcome what he has destroyed. Curse the stupid people who forgot about the first
car-crash sequence and are voting for another one.
55. Turn off the TV and think about reading a book.
Wonder how different the world would be if everyone did that from time to time.
Wonder if this thought makes you seem like those slightly-obsessive people who
wail about the dangers of watching too much TV. Wonder if that’s not such a bad
obsession to have.
56. Realize that you have wandered in your thoughts from
humorous to thought-provoking, and that this is not such a good thing to happen
on a Friday night. Friday nights are when you do random and carefree things
because you have the rest of the weekend to do something more serious, like
shell out money to pay for the damages you and your dumbass friends caused on said
Friday night when somebody hollered “hey, let’s try this!”
57. Try to get back in the proper fun-loving spirit as
you think of three absurd but entertaining activities to round out your list of
pointless things to do on a vacation day. Try your best to make them not sound
like filler entries just to meet your quota.
58. Drink beer. (Okay, I failed with the originality on
that one, but seriously, everything is always much more enthralling when
drinking an elixir intended to jack up your faculties. (Drinker A: “I once went
to a peanut farm.” Drinker B: “Oh my GOD, I’ve always wanted to go to a peanut
farm. Tell me everything!”) Until the
next morning, when simply opening an eye feels like your eyelid is made of
sandpaper as it rips your cornea to shreds.
59. Eat some of that cheese in your refrigerator. I know
it’s essentially artery-clogging, but it sure tastes good, even the smelly
ones, and I can pretty much guarantee that no one has ever said on their death
bed “Dear Lord, I wish I hadn’t eaten all that cheese.” Unless they were
talking about something else entirely, some non-dairy bit of tomfoolery, but
that’s none of my business and I don’t judge. Okay, I do, every day, but only
in a professional capacity as a blogger. Swear.
60. Go back and read all 775 posts on this blog. This won’t
improve your life in any way. But you never know when I might show up as a
category on “Jeopardy”, and you really should be prepared…
Cheers.
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