The following are some ways to maintain a
healthy level of insanity.
- Leave outdoor Christmas decorations up all year.
- If you have to give blood, at least make a big show of
it.
NOTE: I'm DYYYYYING!
- Put a title like Senator or Doctor before your name when
making dinner and hotel reservations.
- Go up the down escalator.
- Adjust the tint on your tv so that all the people are
green, and insist to others that you "like it that
way".
- Sing the Batman theme incessantly.
- Produce a rental video consisting entirely of dire FBI
copy warnings.
NOTE: Remember to add scary music.
- Specify that your drive-through order is "to
go".
- Learn Morse code, and have conversations with friends in
public consisting entirely of "Beeeep Bip Bip Beeeep
Bip..."
- Honk and wave to strangers.
- Dress only in clothes colored Hunter's Orange.
- Begin all your sentences with "ooh la la!"
- Repeat the following conversation a dozen times: "Do
you hear that?"
"What?"
"Never mind, it's gone now."
- When on an elevator, greet everyone who gets on with a
warm handshake, and ask them to call you
"Admiral."
- Wear a cape that says "Magnificent One".
- Finish the 99 bottles of beer song.
- Forget the punchline to a long joke, but assure the
listener it was a "real hoot".
- Deliberately hum songs that will remain lodged in
co-workers' brains, such as "Feliz Navidad",
the Archies' "Sugar" or the Mr. Rogers theme
song.
NOTE: Or my OliOli Olson Freeo.
- As much as possible, skip rather than walk.
- Wear a LOT of cologne.
- Finish all your sentences with the words "in
accordance with prophesy".
- Incessantly recite annoying phrases, such as "sticky
wicket isn't cricket."
- Construct your own pretend "tricorder", and
"scan" people with it, announcing the results.
- Give a play-by-play account of a person's every action in
a nasal Howard Cossell voice.
- At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on
and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they
slow down.
- Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your
voice.
- Put your garbage can on your desk and label it
"in".
- Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone
has Gotten over their caffeine addictions, switch to
espresso.
- In the memo field of your checks, write "for sexual
favors".
- Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape
of jungle sounds all day.
- Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
- Have your coworkers address you by your wrestling name,
Rock Hard Kim.
- If too much ice comes out of the McDonald's dispenser,
yell "I hit the jackpot!"
- When the money comes out the ATM, scream "I won! I
won! 3rd time this week!!!!!"
- When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking
lot, yelling "run for your lives, they're
loose!!"
- E-mail this to everyone in your address book, even if
they sent it to you.
- After "Sex:" on an application
put Yes.
- When ordering from an Asian girl at McDonalds with poor
English, order "One happy meal, extra happy."
- Email this to your friends, but label it "I'm
sending you this document to get your advice."