# 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:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![St.Attila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@St.Attila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/St.Attila)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/41 "2001-01-14T05:43:31Z")
\*Originally posted by Mnementh \* > [@](#): > > \*\*I plan to be holding _[my sword]_ in the pic in which I’ll be showing off my boobies \*\* Do this in a pool, and you might have the basis for a system of government. [sub]I really hope somebody gets that…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![KitKhat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KitKhat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KitKhat)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/42 "2001-01-14T05:44:18Z")
I guess I’m not nearly as interesting to myself as some of you other dopers are to yourselves. One thing I apparently am able to take advantage of is the fact that I share my own apartment with myself, so as soon as I get home from work, dinner, clubbing, concerts, etc. I strip and stay stripped until I have to leave my apartment again. I sleep naked, watch TV naked, do the housework naked, heck I’m naked right now!! Funny that I have to wear something to do laundry, though, since I have to use the building’s laundry room. I suppose I could try it… nah. I don’t think the old ladies in the building would find that very amusing. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/43 "2001-01-14T05:46:24Z")
I live alone, and have an office rather than a cubicle, so to me “when no one else is around” means solitude physically away from home and work. No phone, no net, no neighbours. I love to paddle out to Victoria Island on Lake Superior and nestle down in a cove looking out to Isle Royal. The sun crosses over the entrance of the cove, waves surging in have formed a marvellous rumbling cobble beach, and not much of anything happens. I just sit. I don’t work. I don’t read. I don’t think. I just sit and watch and listen and feel. I lose myself into the world around me. And people are not part of that world. I also love to hike out with a keyboard to a sand beach at Prince and Jarvis on Superior. As I look out over the waters, and look up at the cliffs, I wonder what it was like living here three hundred years ago, when only a handful of Europeans had visited the area. I wonder what their world view was. And then I play Bach, and I wonder what his world view was. And I marvel at what he created and what baroque music in general might have meant to people who went to the ends of the earth, so very far from Europe’s churches and courts. I wonder how my own family felt, at that time leaving the courts of England for the first time in many hundreds of years, for an alien life in Barbados. I wonder if they felt that music spoke out to the land and the water saying I am more than an isolated animal, I am humanity in all its history and structure and wonder. When I end my solitude and return to my friends, I find myself treasuring them, as if I am encountering them anew. They are all so very precious. ---
**Author:** ![DRY](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@DRY](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DRY)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/44 "2001-01-14T09:39:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > **Think of new ways to torment DRY 😛** Aren’t the old ways effective enough? I already have cyanotic spehroids the size of grapefruits, thanks to you. Or rather, NO thanks to you! [sub]And no, the above is NOT intended to be an admission as to what I do when no one else is around![/sub] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/45 "2001-01-14T12:06:27Z")
I’m not alone often enough - there’s usually either some dorky flatmate here, or liable to suddenly appear. What I do when I’m alone: - Play on my computer (internet, games, websites) - Watch porn videos - Draw - I love to read, but the book I’m reading just now isn’t very compelling so it’s taking me a long time to finish - Write (porn, little ideas, funny stuff, silly things, bits and pieces, and various doodads) - Masturbate - Daydream - Waste time - Stride around the house, talking out loud and gesticulating, while reliving my past or imagining scenarios from my immediate future - Sleep ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/46 "2001-01-14T13:10:40Z")
I write short stories that I later give to Marcie for her amusement. ---
**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 14, 2001, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/47 "2001-01-14T17:44:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DRY \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Medea’s Child \* > > **Think of new ways to torment DRY 😛** > > Aren’t the old ways effective enough? I already have cyanotic spehroids the size of grapefruits, thanks to you. Or rather, NO thanks to you! > > \*\* No the old ways are not good enough. My field of choice is to make processes more efficient…call it job training. St. Attila, _sniker_ thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Welfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e56c9b/32.png) [@Welfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Welfy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/48 "2001-01-14T20:44:07Z")
_whisper_ I listen to really horrid music like NSync and Backstreet Boys when alone. Since I really don’t know the words, I just pretend I do, which makes it even worse. I think it’s a form of mental self-torture or something. When I’m mad at myself I listen to this music…heh. [whiny Nsync voice]Every little thing I dooooo, never seems enough for yooooooou… [/whiny Nsync voice] Aren’t I terrible? 😃 _ducks and runs, dodging squishy old tomatoes_ ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/49 "2001-01-14T21:19:38Z")
I also go through the cupboards and closets in my mom’s room, looking for hidden junk food. ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/50 "2001-01-14T21:49:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by St. Attila \* > \*\*\*Originally posted by Mnementh \* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*\*I plan to be holding _[my sword]_ in the pic in which I’ll be showing off my boobies \*\* > > Do this in a pool, and you might have the basis for a system of government. > > \*\* MPATHG!!! “If I went around saying I was an emperor because some bitch threw a scimitar at me…” Well, back to what I do when I’m alone… sit around staring at the walls read sing lines from songs over and over and over in a boisterous but pretty singing voice think about odd things and come up with random questions sleep look for things I just remembered I needed/wanted/thought of watch silly movies write draw/paint ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/51 "2001-01-14T22:30:18Z")
I dont get what my sword, boobies and a pool have to do with a government of any kind… 'splain? ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/52 "2001-01-14T22:51:35Z")
Mnemoth: There was this chick, see, and she came up out of a lake, gave this sword to this guy, and from there came a whole bunch of cool stuff, like the Knights Who Say “Ni.” ---
**Author:** ![Persephone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@Persephone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Persephone)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/53 "2001-01-14T22:53:16Z")
Excuse me, that should be **Mnementh.** Duh. ---
**Author:** ![Mnementh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@Mnementh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mnementh)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/54 "2001-01-14T23:02:20Z")
Ah. Arthurian legend. I gotcha. Of course, my boobies rarely make me think of the Lady of the Lake… ---
**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 14, 2001, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/55 "2001-01-14T23:14:40Z")
Better than Arthur, its Monty Python…I have a movie you need to rent. ---
**Author:** ![Girlbysea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Girlbysea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girlbysea)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/56 "2001-01-14T23:44:03Z")
Sing… but I won’t look in the mirror… I’m to shy… ---
**Author:** ![Seen\_to\_it\_already](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e79b87/32.png) [@Seen\_to\_it\_already](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seen_to_it_already)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2001, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861/57 "2001-01-14T23:51:05Z")
But I don’t when people are around. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-do-when-no-one-else-is-around/49861.md?page=2)