Sunday, March 25, 2012

Assignments for Crazy People Part 3



Assignment 173: Pour yourself a bowl of salty pretzel Chex Mix cereal, complete with milk. If you like that one, try the same thing with a can of crushed Pringles.

Assignment 174: Type up an entire novel with the keyboard upside down so that you end up with three hundred pages of pure gibberish. Here is a sentence to get you started: "om s hplrin yhjr htpimf yjrtr ;obrf s honnoy."

Assignment 175: Get Robert Englund to re-enact all the Freddy movies without the makeup, without the claw, and dressed in a two piece suit. Bonus if you tell him not to cuss. "Take it to prime time, Beth!"

Assignment 176: Travel to London and ask the actor playing Doctor Who about Prescription Plavix. Ask the Doctor if Plavix is right for you.

Assignment 177: Go surfing or snowboarding on an ironing board. Not with an ironing board, but on it, so it's more painful.

Assignment 178: Train your body to wet the bed at night. Bonus if you do it at a friend's house.

Assignment 179: Keep a scrapbook of painful, depressing memories.

Assignment 180: Take photographs of family members crying and put them in an album.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Assignments for Crazy People, Part 2



Assignment 39: Give your dog a really human sounding name. Get a real last name and first name from the telephone book, so that you can confuse everyone, including your veterinarian.

Assignment 40: Don't actually pay for classes, but get a schedule for college class field trips and hang out with them in order to mooch their snacks and annoy everybody.

Assignment 41: When a customer complains to you that people keep hanging up on them, don't say sorry, just hang up immediately.

Assignment 42: Tell the customer to go into a poor reception area of their house so the call can disconnect.

Assignment 43: Get a call center job, then start writing small science fiction stories in the memo sections on customer accounts. For bonus points, inform management about the newest installments.

Assignment 44: Go around visiting all the real estate and insurance open houses to get free cookies and sodas.

Assignment 45: Deliberately stage a detour in the middle of a street. Stage an accident, pretend like you're moving something, or come up with another dramatic street blocking event. Time it perfectly to match the passage of an oncoming car.