"I’m tired of reading about difficult, expensive, time-consuming things I 'have to do before I die.' And I’m betting you are too.
"So why not try my Amazingly Achievable Things To Do list instead?
- Turn round and look at something you’ve just tripped over in the street – then realise you’re spending slightly too much time doing this to look entirely normal, and move onwards.
- Buy something on impulse.
- Say “I can’t” when what you really mean is “I don’t want to”.
- Read a book. Any book will do.
- Absent-mindedly put something in the fridge that doesn’t belong in the fridge.
- Laugh at a private joke, just as someone is passing you in the street, making them paranoid until they get home and examine themselves thoroughly.
- Hope that (6) has just happened to you, rather than something embarrassing being on your face or your flies being undone.
- Frown about how much you have to do in so little time.
- Squeeze a pimple.
- Feed a bird or animal.
- Whittle a new hole in a belt.
- While online, do something you’re not proud of.
- Put leftover ingredients together to make something that’s simply inedible, no matter how hungry you are.
- Run out of toilet paper at some critical moment.
- See the sun come up.
- Look at somebody’s bottom.
- Put more than one pair of spectacles or sunglasses on at the same time.
- Lick uncooked cake mixture off a wooden spoon.
- Eat so much of something that you have problems breathing when you sit down, or moving when you’re stood up.
- Surprise a junk snail-mailer by dragging it out your letterbox on your side before he’s finished pushing it through on his.
- Play with something until it breaks.
- Admire yourself in a mirror, possibly with a Fonzie / Joey / Dr. Sam Beckett style “heyyyyyy!” gesture.
- Catch an egg before it rolls off a tabletop.
- Part your hair a different way.
- Order a “half” of something alcoholic, and feel mild social embarrassment amidst your peers.
- Suffer an ice-cream headache.
- Trip on a shoelace.
- Use a leaf as a bookmark.
- Put more money into a slot-machine than you originally intended to.
- Check your e-mail, receive nothing, and then check it again – just in case there’s a server error somewhere.
- Pack a bag or suitcase too full, and unpack it with a suddenly heavy heart.
- While walking, go slightly out of your way to admire someone that’s hot.
- Pick up a hammer by the other end, and marvel at how light it feels.
- Owe something.
- Fire an elastic band at someone.
- Speak to a computer screen – for example “What?! Why did you do that???”
- Walk into plate glass.
- Wear odd socks (deliberately or by mistake).
- Enjoy a song for nostalgia’s sake that you’ll willingly admit is crap in every other sense.
- Rehearse an argument in your head with someone annoying, putting them firmly in their place.
- Knock on a door with a jaunty rhythm – eg. RAP RAP-A-RAP RAP, RAP *RAP*.
- Notice a shopkeeper’s given you too much change, but pretend you’re unaware of it.
- Bite into a tomato and have it fire all over you.
- Give directions.
- Sit on the floor when a perfectly good chair is available.
- Immediately click with someone.
- Pull the label off an item of clothing and accidentally rip the hem it’s attached to.
- Play Poohsticks.
- Forget to water a plant and feel guilty about it.
- Make a list of things to do.
My score is 30. Definitely an achievable list.

1 comment:
i think i might be 45ish. fun list!
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