# Trivial things you've done this week no other dopers have **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 13, 2006, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261 "2006-07-13T00:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/61 "2006-07-13T18:31:09Z")
My dad and I had colonoscopys. And they put us in prep and recovery rooms right next to each other. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/62 "2006-07-13T18:33:42Z")
I played with six of our Guide dog breeder’s puppies. All very cute and perky, and they never nipped me, even once. All five weeks old. The other two puppies were keeping another puppy who was getting an operation company. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/63 "2006-07-13T18:33:46Z")
I gave blood yesterday for the first time ever. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/64 "2006-07-13T19:00:54Z")
I recorded a poetry podcast last night. And I sold my 11th copy of my poetry book, which is big news because I didn’t expect to sell that many! I also exploded a toner cartridge onto myself. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/65 "2006-07-13T19:01:57Z")
12! I just checked. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/66 "2006-07-13T19:10:23Z")
A lady called and had me cancel an appointment she had yesterday, then rescheduled it for today. She then called back and said she couldn’t make it, and wanted to know if I had anything opened for Friday. I rescheduled her for Friday. She then called back and cancelled again. She hasn’t rescheduled since. She told me who would be coming in for the appointment, and I wrote down the name Belle XXXXX. When I told her I’d look forward to seeing “her”, she coldly told me that it was “he”, her husband, then hung up. Startled, I asked a co-worker if they knew a Belle XXXXX. She then laughingly told me it wasn’t _Belle_, it was _Bill._ So, I cancelled and rescheduled one person’s appointment three times in one day, and on top of that, called her husband Belle. It was at this point that I told my co-worker I understood why we used pencils for everything except signatures. Hmmm… what else… I hung a 2006 calendar for the first time this year. I borrowed a foot bath from my BIL. I dinged level 60 in Everquest II. I danced naked in the living room to Adam Ant’s “Kings of the Wild Frontier”. I played fetch with my cat. I applied a temporary tattoo of a frog onto the back of my hand, which came from my Botan Rice Candy box. ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/67 "2006-07-13T19:12:04Z")
I cheated on that wooden peg game at crackerbarrelonline to get “You’re a Genius!” And it felt _good_! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/68 "2006-07-13T19:12:40Z")
I forgot an obvious one. I brought a sheep to work. A stuffed Serta sheep, but still, that seems a bit unusual, right? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/69 "2006-07-13T21:32:01Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Heh! I replaced my windshield wipers yesterday. That one doesn’t qualify, since two Dopers did it. > > Didn’t shoot any pictures, though. Of tissues or anything else. No, I _repaired_ it, not replaced (and I bet you mean the blades). As in had to replace the washer so the damn thing would work again. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/70 "2006-07-13T22:13:44Z")
I worked on determining the best way to remove Creeping Bellflower from the woods… I slept 19 out of 24 hours in one day… I jumped in the wading pool with my dogs. ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/71 "2006-07-13T22:17:14Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > I gave blood yesterday for the first time ever. YEAH! Thank you! Only thing I don’t like about going to Mexico is that I can’t give blood for a year after I get back. Give blood GOOD. Fire bad, FIRE BAD! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/72 "2006-07-13T22:53:56Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Choked an airman. Aww, hell…I’ve done that a good four or five times already this week. Errrr, unless that’s not a euphemism. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/73 "2006-07-13T23:06:05Z")
I made a batch of jerky jerky – Jamican jerk flavoured beef jerky. I removed a nail buried four or five inches deep into the fleshy part of a man’s ass after he was accidently shot with a nail gun at close range by his toddler. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/74 "2006-07-13T23:11:25Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Going out on a limb, but: > > Planned a drag show fundraiser. Oh, fun! I love going to the drags. My dad had a dragster. Goes to Bonneville and El Mirage and places like that. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/75 "2006-07-13T23:13:54Z")
Oh, and my trivial thing I did this week: Washed and dried the lids to 8 garbage cans that hold various grains at the horse barn where I work, then I re-labled them with titles like: Apex Grain Ration, Opie’s Rolled Corn, Balou’s Dry Cob, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/76 "2006-07-13T23:50:19Z")
> [@Tastes of Chocolate](#): > > I scanned 73year old photos from my grandparents honeymoon. Sorry to say this, but I have to, since this thread is about things no other dopers have done: I also scanned photos from your grandparents’ honeymoon. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ryobserver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@ryobserver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryobserver)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/77 "2006-07-14T00:10:50Z")
Made an appointment to get my eyes examined. Printed out Google maps of Hatboro, then used the satellite-photo feature to verify the availability of sidewalks, because I’ll be walking instead of driving. Read the short story “They’re Made Out of Meat” (Terry Bisson) online, and watched the short film on YouTube. Good fun. Started reading _On the Beach_. I am now going to go eat some Ben & Jerry’s Black and Tan. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/78 "2006-07-14T00:14:20Z")
> [@ryobserver](#): > > I am now going to go eat some Ben & Jerry’s Black and Tan. [ot]I love that stuff.[/ot] ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/79 "2006-07-14T00:56:24Z")
I taught a 17 year-old to land an airplane (Cessna 172 if anyone’s interested). ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2006, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261/80 "2006-07-14T19:32:56Z")
There are a couple of other Dopers who may have done these things, but I have to post anyway, because I’m pretty sure no one else has. They’re not trivial, either. I stayed up all night at the scene of a crash between a propane truck and a septic waste truck. I treated the driver of the propane truck for minor injuries, I put down absorbent pads on spilled oil, I racked hose, and I watched 2,000 gallons of propane be “burned off.” It was a loooong freaking night. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivial-things-youve-done-this-week-no-other-dopers-have/364261.md?page=5)