# So, how boring am I?  How boring are you?

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 1, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-boring-am-i-how-boring-are-you/608026 "2012-01-01T08:00:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-boring-am-i-how-boring-are-you/608026/1 "2012-01-01T08:00:45Z")

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I was sitting, sprawled on the sofa, with a dog on my head like a hat, another on my lap, and a third with his head where I could scratch his neck and ears. While changing the channel to a Doctor Who episode I had seen several times I paused at a contest that promised a trip to Hawaii. Beaches? Never saw the point. Fancy dinners? I can do as well at home, though I’m perfectly happy with hot peppers and peanut butter on toast. Nightlife? Did I mention I was wearing dogs and watching Doctor Who reruns? I was perfectly happy.

Beat that for boring.

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**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-boring-am-i-how-boring-are-you/608026/2 "2012-01-01T08:05:27Z")

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I get up, go to work, come home, eat dinner, poke around online, then go to bed. On weekends, I get up, do laundry, clean, poke around online, then go to bed.

There’s my life in two sentences.

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**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-boring-am-i-how-boring-are-you/608026/3 "2012-01-01T08:12:51Z")

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But with proper Oxford commas.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-boring-am-i-how-boring-are-you/608026/4 "2012-01-01T10:46:15Z")

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{yawn}

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**Author:** ![tr0psn4j](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/958977/32.png) [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-boring-am-i-how-boring-are-you/608026/5 "2012-01-01T10:49:40Z")

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I don’t see the appeal of Hawaii either.

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**Author:** ![Thrasymachus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Thrasymachus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thrasymachus)\
**Post date:** [January 1, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-boring-am-i-how-boring-are-you/608026/6 "2012-01-01T13:53:29Z")

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Know the joke about the engineer who had both a wife and a mistress? They’d both assume he was out with the other one, when really he’d be working late in the lab.

I was that guy, for a few months. And I **preferred** being in the lab. 🆒