How to Kill Time
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Got some time to waste? Some minutes to murder? Some space in your daily programmer that you just can't fill?
You could just sit there like a bump on a log, or you could fill that empty time with some energizing, novel activity that, once performed will make you say "well, there's another ten minutes down the drain"...and what could be more gratifying?
Here are a few ideas I came up with, while I was wasting time waiting for the last day of August to turn into the first day of September.
time killed : 1 hour
1.
call people at random. ask them if they know your cousin 'Egbert'.
time wasted: 10 seconds
2.
talk to an onion. tell it your life story. watch how it never shows surprise or over-reacts.
time killed: your age divided by the colour of your eyes
3.
paint your face like a sad clown. go to church. watch the
reactions.
time wasted :none. (going to church is surely never a waste of time!)
4.
go to a pet store. find a large, empty cage. crawl in. growl as people approach.
time killed : flexible
5.
learn a dead language and never get a chance to speak it.
time wasted: years
6.
cut your lawn with your electric power-mower, but don't plug it in.
time killed = size of your lawn.
7.
.play a game of solitaire using a pack of 52 Jacks.
time wasted : 1 minute
8.
go to Starbucks and ask them if they can fix your car. insist they give you an estimate.
time killed: length of your coffee break
9.
defragment your computer 100 times in a row.
time wasted : lots
10.
learn to play "I Shot the Sheriff" on the guitar. No one will ever ask you to sing it.
time killed = time it takes to find your guitar in the attic
11.
read War and Peace and count the number of times Tolstoy uses the word ' power-steering'.
time wasted = number of pages * words on page
12.
go downtown and protest against people walking on sidewalks as 'cruelty to pavements'.
time killed: until you get hustled off to the Home for Irrelevant Protestors
13.
read this (my) article on killing time.
time wasted: 1 min. 29 sec. plus the time it took you to decide whether to read it or click on a more productive use of your time like reading a hub by Patty Inglish. MS.
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Extremely diverting.
Time wasted trying to decide whether or not to comment= 5 minutes
(i'm really indecisive)
Dix: I wasted no time reading your nice comment! thank you! :)
Opera: The fact you commented is what matters. You are on the road to recovery from your diversionary-indecisionary-detrations...or something like that. ;) thanks for reading!
I can kill hours by going into my bunker to taunt my captive aliens! I also enjoy playing "Who Can Outsleep The Cat: Home Edition." That one's hours of fun for the whole family. Although my cat is particularly fat, and lazy, so she almost always wins.
Evilpants: Cats are natural time-wasters...it's genetic with them...they have the skill, talent and all the inclination they need to out-do us everytime...we can only aspire to be as good at it as they are...we never will be though. ;)
Hahahahaha I enjoyed reading this hub Woody Marx! No time wasted, that's for sure. I kill a lot of time accompanying elder relatives on the clinic and waiting for hours for the doctor to arrive or driving in super traffic areas. Hey, but in the end your hub made me reflect that time is indeed in our hands and what we do with it is really up to us. :)
-- Michelle Simtoco
Ripple (aka Michelle): thank you for your appreciative and sensitive comments. Time is one of the biggest mysteries and how it ebbs and flows at what seems to be different speeds, depending on what we are doing at the "time"...your story points that up nicely. Thanks! :)
Just dropping by to say 'hello' and to read your reply before rushing off to prepare for work. :) Time wasted 2 mins. Time gained: countless... it is precious when we are able to simply connect with people. Have a beautiful day Woody Marx! :)
Time I spent here? 5 minutes. Time wasted 0. It's 9.40 pm Thursday, here in Sydney Australia. In your time in Ontario it is only 7.40 am Thursday, so by the time your time reaches my time of 9.40 pm I will be doing something else so I wont be wasting that precious 9.40 time slot.. Cool.
I hope you have good Thursday. Mine was.
Cheers
Very diverting Woody Marx. I could kill a few nanoseconds wondering whether the Large Hadron Collider also comes in small and medium, or alternatively I could get back to work before the boss catches me slacking! Thanks for making me smile!
dixonart says:
15 months ago
Good page! I enjoyed it!
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