What do you think about those clever, funny things to do when you're bored?
Examples:
- Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
– Specify that your drive-through order is “to go.”
– Five days in advance, tell your friends you can’t attend their party because you have a headache.
I’m sure you’ve heard of these and seen them on the internet. What do you think about them? Have you ever actually done one? What was it and what was the experience like? Why would you or someone else do something like this, out of boredum or just to get a few laughs?
Have you ever come up with your own? What is it?
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My favorite is- get on an elevator and stand backwards, facing the other people. That would be hilarious.
I wish I had the guts to do them.
While I think they are funny, I also think they are about breaking people out of their complacency. They’re a sort of Dadaist performance art. Or part of Operation Mindf***.
If I were younger I might do such things, but those days are past for me. As long as they’re not downright mean they’re OK by me.
My employee is teathered to his iPhone.
When he puts it down and turns his back I stuff it in my pocket.
Then he spends the next 10min. figuring out where he put it. Eventually calling it.
By then I have put it somewhere and he cant figure out how it got there.
Funny thing, he falls for it every time.
@ChazMaz Laughter should always be a part of the workplace, very nice.
I honk the horn at stop lights, and pretend I don’t know who did it when everyone looks around.
ALso, on long drives I use my washer fluid to clean my window, and I see how many times I can get the person behind me to use their wipers because the mist hits their window.
I don’t do any of these type of things. I don’t have this type of sense of humor. I think most of them would be annoying to me if someone else did them, so I wouldn’t.
Although @ChazMaz example of the iphone is very funny, that would be an exception.
One of my Uncle’s is famous for showing up to party’s, eating, then disappearing for sleep. No one likes the guy. I set a camera up to take a picture every 5 minutes on someone elses camera, and pointed it at Uncle Scott’s head. So, my uncle Marty had a bunch of photos of my Uncle Scott scared shitless, and my uncle Scott got no sleep! Perfect!
When behind someone slow on the highway, I start doing the “S” swerve staying in my lane (like they do in Nascar wile behind the pace car)
Play the [airport] game!
I started playing this game only at airports, but it works in other crowded places:
Simply tell yourself that every single person is thinking about the first time they had sex, and look at their facial expressions. Hilarious. Some people [in airports, esp.] are nodding off, some look super stressed, some are chuckling, etc.
I also try to guess what KIND of a person is driving a car. Man or a woman? Is she a Nun? What nationality.
Or, a spin off of the airport game… invent stories for people. (see movie: Wonder Boys, with Michael Douglas.)
You don’t stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.
@stratman37 That is one of the greastest quotes I have ever heard.
Thanx, I try to live by those words.
Another GREAT effect to pull off in traffic, and this one is pretty hard to set up – is to pull up to the light before your friend behind you pulls alongside. Make eye contact with ‘em just before you slip it into reverse and just ease it back a bit. Makes them feel like they’re drifting out into the intersection!!
Yes, because playing games in traffic is really funny. ~
In a large store, dribble a trail of orange juice to the restroom.
Put wet floor signs on carpet areas,
put $1.29 bag of candy in Lay-a-way
Wow, this is an awesome question with even better answers. I think you all for making my bad day amazing.
I love humor and have lots of little tricks for enjoying myself out in the world. But—don’t we recognize a difference between humor and pranks, especially mean-spirited ones? I’m a little disappointed with some of these answers.
When it comes to traffic, I want everybody on the road to drive as safely and sensibly as possible and not be startled or alarmed or irritated. Every day, we are out there with sick people, crazy people, stupid people, angry people, sleepy people, old people, intoxicated and stoned people, and people who aren’t going to pass their next exam. I’d hate to think anyone’s joke caused someone to make a bad move and cause an accident. The people who play are not usually the ones who pay.
When I’m bored at school I like to stare at people and listen to their talks.I like their reaction when they realize that I’m there
@Christian95 Do you make that face from your avatar when you stare? Because that would make it twice as hilarious.
I love that stuff!I was “pulled over” by the cops in a parking lot for riding around on my husband’s back. He let me go with a warning. ;)
I get into the elevator at the local light rail park-n-ride, and if there are other passengers, I ask if it’s going down (or up, depending where I get on). The funny part is there are only two levels.
And yes, it’s just for laughs.
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