…that I posted a message in my own guest book
…read Drain Bead’s skillet thread
…copied the Bush and Dick to another board
…converted a concert tape to CD, editing out the drunks yelling between songs, then copied it back to cassette so I can play it in the car…
…viewed this post three times to make it look interesting, despite the obvious opening
I sat in an empty train station in Kingston Ontario for 8 hours once with nothing but my guitar and a heavily read copy of the Tao Te Ching.
you think you know bordom?
I slept on a bench at the San Francisco airport with nothing but a carry on bag for entertainment, as the city was paralyzed due to mud slides…
I spent a night on a bench in down town Fredricton with the same Guitar and the same book (did i menton the 3 days i spent in an unfinished room waiting for the rain to stop with the the same book? the guitar had been broken at a party a day before i’d gotten there)
Then there was the 6 days in a hospital bed, not being able to walk, with no TV, one CD and THE SAME BOOK
– I disconnected all the stereo wires and hooked everything up differently in an attempt to make the FM bypass through the 8-track player or something. I forget what my goal was in the beginning. My final goal was to put it all back together the way I found it.
– I alphabetized the store’s selection of diecast, arranging them on the back-stock shelves by driver’s last name and car’s release and race date.
– I compiled a mailing list of everyone whose name was on our order sheet from 1998 thru the present date.
– I sorted the bills in the cash register so that the bills on top were newer and the ones on bottom were older.
– After finally getting the stereo reconfigured, I took it apart again in order to use it as an amplifier for an electric guitar.
…that the summer after fourth grade, I went and stuck my tongue to a shelf in our freezer just to see what it felt like.
…that I once made an entire wardrobe of clothes for a small plastic cow.
…that I learned the numbers 0-100 in German. Nothing else, just the numbers.
…having gotten tired of watching exercise infomercials and oxy cleaning fluids, I read Genesis in the Gideon’s Bible. The plot is interesting, but it did not explain where all the people came from. Dialog was not realistic.
I spent a year and a half in Albany, New York.
Ouch.
LOL
Hey. I go to school in Troy, from which Albany looks like the exciting side of the river. And I’ve been here for over a week now and classes haven’t started. And I don’t have a car. I still haven’t done anything interesting.
Actually we always thought Troy was the interesting side of the river … interesting in an NYPD Blue sort of way that is.
I got straight A’s in all my classes at SUNYA because I was too bored to do anything but study.
I spent 4 weeks in an oxygen tent in ICU. No radio, no TV, no books - I probably couldn’t have held one up to read anyway. So I spent my time playing a modified version of scrabble in my head, restricting myself to the set of letters printed on the oxygen tent (which was as far as I could see at all clearly).
I spent a week in Kenosha, Wisconsin, one night. I missed the train back to Chicago.
Robin
It could have been worse, it could have been in Tomah, WI.
Or Hazelton, PA.
Any of y’all ever hear of a little place called Stoney Creek, New Brunswick?
No.
And do you know why?
Because there’s no one here. Except the cows. And the 55cm of snow on the ground.
And i’ve been trapped here since August.
Upham
If you think Albany is bad…
Head about 40 miles south.
Move to Kinderhook.
Or try driving from Moses Lake, WA to WSU in Pullman, WA. Nothing but rolling wheat fields for four hours, on a straight road. Point the car straight, sleep for four hours, you’re there! (Not recommended, actually, but that’s about the only way to survive the trip.)