# Things You Do When No One Else Is Around **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 13, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861 "2001-01-13T15:43:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/1 "2001-01-13T15:43:07Z")
I’m not looking for particularly disgusting things, or illegal things (unless, of course, they’re funny. I like funny). Me, after the kids go to bed and the husband has gone to work, I like to settle down with my crochet… …and watch Keith Olbermann. I don’t like sports. But I’ve had a crush on Keith Olbermann ever since he did a show on MSNBC called “The Big Show.” He’s hot. Whew. ---
**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/2 "2001-01-13T15:46:04Z")
I talk to myself… a LOT! But, hey, I’m the only one who really understands! ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/3 "2001-01-13T15:53:19Z")
Funny faces. And, as with just about everybody else here, cruise the web. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/4 "2001-01-13T16:50:59Z")
play musical instruments. no interruptions, no one yelling “that should have been a b flat.” ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Zero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Saint\_Zero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Zero)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/5 "2001-01-13T17:03:26Z")
Mundane: Browse the web. Read. Sleep. Change the Launch Codes at Norad. You know, the simple things. 😃 Oh, and I have a imaginary Celebrity Bonefire. Where I stake a Celebrity to the pole and watch 'em burn while I roast sausages in the fire. ---
**Author:** ![Bear\_Nenno](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bear_nenno/32/3358_2.png) [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/6 "2001-01-13T17:05:31Z")
Clean my guns… They never can be too clean. ---
**Author:** ![Tzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzel)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/7 "2001-01-13T18:36:18Z")
Talk to myself. Pick at those white layers of dead skin under the corners of my toenails. Masturbate. Pick my nose. Rub my fingers in my armpit hair, then smell them. Put small things in my mouth and chew on them. Pencaps, whatever. ---
**Author:** ![right\_said\_fred](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9d8465/32.png) [@right\_said\_fred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/right_said_fred)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/8 "2001-01-13T18:39:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bear\_Nenno \* > **Clean my guns…** Is that what the kids are calling it these days? ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Isabella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Queen\_Isabella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Isabella)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/9 "2001-01-13T18:43:21Z")
Hmmm… I talk to myself. I dance, I sing, I pick my nose. I slide across my tile floor wearing socks. That’s about it. ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/10 "2001-01-13T18:47:02Z")
dodgy alone at home… CD Player on as loud as possible Telly on too (but mute) Reading a book aloud while jumping around to the music I will also hold conversations with myself, write a shortstory or take strange photos. dodgy ---
**Author:** ![Road\_Rash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@Road\_Rash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Road_Rash)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/11 "2001-01-13T19:08:35Z")
I’ll second picking my nose and masturbating. Add cutting farts with honor and looking at fetish web sites. ---
**Author:** ![Upham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Upham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Upham)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/12 "2001-01-13T19:11:49Z")
I rearrange ALL the furnature, turn everything upside down and sing “Rule Brittania” while paceing the quarter deck of my make belive battle cruser, the HMS Manybigguns patrolling the English Channel against any and all comers. Suddenly, we sight the German High Seas fleat! It’s 1916 and Vice Admiral Beatty signals us from the HMS Lion that we are to attack! The smell of cordite and blood is in the air as salvo after wicked salvo screech through the sky and slam them selves down on armor decks. The For-mast comes crashing down with a screech of twisted metal and smashed rangefinding equipment, fires break out amidships, damage control teams rush to try and check the progress of the flames… I scratch my butt, too. Upham ---
**Author:** ![BornDodgy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BornDodgy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BornDodgy)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/13 "2001-01-13T19:12:25Z")
yep… “finger meet dodgy, dodgy meet finger” might be an option too… how could I forget about that??? dodgy 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mauvaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mauvaise/32/11084_2.png) [@Mauvaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mauvaise)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/14 "2001-01-13T19:39:32Z")
I haven’t had much time alone in quite awhile, but that has recently changed so now I get to do the stuff I’ve had to restrain myself from: Dancing around to MP3s or CD/Radio…with the tv on in the background (thank god I don’t pay for electricity here). Taking very long very hot showers. Talking to myself. Listening to showtunes and singing along (I have a horrible singing voice so I only do this when alone). Of course there are moments of, er, self-knowledge. And once winter is over I can start walking around the house naked again. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/15 "2001-01-13T19:53:44Z")
Sometimes I’ll crank up the CD/mp3 player and perform an imaginary concert on air guitar and vocals, just like I did when I was 13. I also repeat certain words or phrases that amuse me over and over, using different intonations and vocal ranges. It passes the time quite nicely. ---
**Author:** ![Palmyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@Palmyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palmyra)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/16 "2001-01-13T20:28:08Z")
alone in my dorm: watch History Channel wear as few clothes as is comfortable experiment with my hair play Playstation talk to my self while doing homework alone in my home: talk to my self while doing homework make clothes swim [in the summer] ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/17 "2001-01-13T20:33:08Z")
I have no time alone. I can’t even take a shower without two toddlers standing there, saying, “Wanna bath?” Time with hubby after toddlers are in bed: we sleep. We occasionally have _gasp_ sex. Either is good. Sometimes I even get to read a book that doesn’t begin with “I do not like green eggs and ham,” but that usually happens at work. Hour lunches are so cool. ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/18 "2001-01-13T20:52:01Z")
I talk to myself, too. I have those imaginary conversations, you know? Can be quite entertaining at times. Upham: You crack me up, man! I’d pay for a picture of that! (I mean, of you being a Mighty Warrior–not a picture of you scratching your butt) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Sang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee7513/32.png) [@Le\_Sang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Sang)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/19 "2001-01-13T21:03:30Z")
Hmm… I am practically _always_ alone… do you want the story of my life or something? [list][li]Lots of time spent on the boards or in #straightdope over in undernet.[/li][li]Every once in a while I give in and clean the floor off enough to walk on it.[/li][li]Homework will probably be working its way back into life fairly soon. :([/li][li]Music is a big part of life… without it, I’d be crazier than I am now[/li][\*]Lots of time is also spent looking forward to phone calls… especially the kind that offer the chance to do the evident most popular all-alone activity… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Medea\_s\_Child](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Medea\_s\_Child](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Medea_s_Child)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2001, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/20 "2001-01-13T21:10:38Z")
Listen to music Whine at friends (or strangers, whoever’s on) Play computer games (Sims, Age of Empires) Stare out my window Write short stories Think of new ways to torment DRY 😛 Clean stuff (okay so this is kinda rare) Homework (Even more so) Poke at my stuff (doll, fountain, stuffed animals) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861.md?page=2)