How to keep Sane

topic posted Wed, February 20, 2008 - 9:03 PM by 
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Here's a short list of ways to keep sane on those days you just want to leave your clothes home and just let everything hang out...or tell your boss where to really file the paper work...

1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It "In."
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks. Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write " For Smuggling Diamonds"
7. Finish All Your sentences with "In Accordance With The Prophecy."
8. Don't use any punctuation
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is "To Go."
12. Sing Along At The Opera.
13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme.
14. Put Mosquito Netting round Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.
15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.
17.When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream "I Won!, I Won!"
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling "Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!"
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner..."Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go."
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  • Re: How to keep Sane

    Wed, February 20, 2008 - 9:11 PM
    20. Ride the elevator and gently hit yourself on the head and keep saying"quit talking to me".
    21. When riding the elevator, every time it gets to a floor, say "ding".
    22. Whenever you give someone your credit card, tell them that God gave you the money 'cause your the Savior.
    23. When paying for your gas, ask where the Full service pumps are.
    24. After paying for your groceries, ask where the kitchen is.
    • Re: How to keep Sane

      Fri, February 22, 2008 - 12:13 AM
      super funny!
      Thanks for the laughs!
      • Re: How to keep Sane

        Fri, February 22, 2008 - 11:21 AM
        hahaha funny :-P Laughting at things do help with everything! At work when we are completely bored out of it, we sometimes pretend to walk like retards. For a short wile everyone does it at the same time. It,s like the dawn of the dead movie. Our boss think we are insane x-D

        I have another one.. work related. see we had this time clock.. you press ``on´´ every morning and then `` off´´ when you go home.
        But all to often i pressed the `` off´´ button in the morning. Then i went like.. what the f***
        • Re: How to keep Sane

          Fri, February 22, 2008 - 11:11 PM
          That reminds me of that funny band my siblings and I were friends with growing up...I was about 14 or something.
          They were 3 guys and on stage or anywhere, at our home sometimes as well, they would suddenly all stop moving, then suddenly do some random things in slow motion, then suddenly would go back to a "natural" pace again.
          It was soooooo funny, plus I was young, I was impressed and it was really wacky.
          My brother knew their trick but I still don't know it today, time for me to know once it for all!
          But really, hope you can picture that you guys but it was so much fun, I tried with friends over the years and it's really fun but those 3 had a code or something and they were in such synch!
          Oh they were called "les Kakous", don't ask me what it means...please, I have no idea, only I know Kakou is a term used in the south of france but I think their name meant something else, but anyway.

          I loved the kitchen one as well haha!
          S.
    • Re: How to keep Sane

      Sat, February 23, 2008 - 12:51 AM
      Of course in Portland ... #23 makes sense ... you cannot pump your own gas in Portland, Oregon ... maybe it is all of Oregon?
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    Re: How to keep Sane

    Thu, February 21, 2008 - 8:32 PM
    Oh my god this is hilarius. I am going to do #1, #2, and #16. Thanks for helping us keep sane.
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    Re: How to keep Sane

    Thu, February 21, 2008 - 9:46 PM
    #5 is REALLY cruel!

    I've ACTUALLY done a variant of #4 - I threw away my INBOX, leaving only "OUT," just to see what they would do. The top response was leaving it on my keyboard, followed closely by leaving it on my chair. When I was IN my office they would kind of tip toe in and delicately ask, "Do you have an INBOX?" I would stare blankly and ask, "Didn't you get the memo?" They all thought I was insane anyway. Eventually they got "creative" and would lay the "IN" folders sideways across the OUTBOX...

    I really like #7 too! Surefire way to get to go have a "talk" with HR. Ha ha.
    • I tried #11 (but I must have done it wrong)

      Fri, February 22, 2008 - 3:59 PM
      I had to add washer fluid this morning and pulled into a McDonald's parking lot. I was already late, so, I thought "Why not?!" When I added "I'll take that to go", the kid told me "Yes, ma'am". He didn't even smile. Maybe I did it wrong ...

      I'm gonna try again.

      Priest - that is awesome! Made me laugh out loud.
      • Re: I tried #11 (but I must have done it wrong)

        Fri, February 22, 2008 - 4:39 PM
        A fav of my brother-in-law...not on the list...especially in this heavily trafficketed area... We were on the freeway heading into DC, and the cars are getting backed up and piling on top of one another. Many try to pass others in the lane, moving only a few cars faster. When one car is riding his own bumper to bumper, and manages to get into the left lane, my brother-in-law called out in an excited voice, 'I'll race you to the stoplight!' Of course, the damn car got stopped in a longer line of cars, while we sailed past...from all of the cars that followed this guy's trend. Great to remember when you're frustrated and sitting in traffic.
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        Re: I tried #11 (but I must have done it wrong)

        Fri, February 22, 2008 - 7:54 PM
        Yeah, I like "conditioning experimentation." Of course, when they know their dealing with a disturbed mind, they're more likely to accommodate you so that they aren't the one who finally makes you go postal...

        hehehe
  • Re: How to keep Sane

    Sat, February 23, 2008 - 1:31 AM
    The thing about getting older is that I care a whole lot less about what people think of me. When my preteen daughter sometimes says, "Daddy, you're weird!," I tell her I rejoice in my weirdness, I reject the common and mundane. I think secretly she admires this trait in me. Hopefully, when I'm older, she doesn't place me in an institution.
  • MOre How to keep Sane

    Mon, February 25, 2008 - 9:21 AM
    When someone asks you to do something, ask if they want that super-sized.

    Run one lap around the office at top speed.

    Groan out loud in the toilet cubicle (at least one other 'non-player' must be in the toilet at the time).

    Ignore the first five people who say 'good morning' to you.

    Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and say, "Just called to say I can't talk right now. Bye."

    To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.

    When someone hands you a piece of paper, finger it, and whisper huskily, "Mmmmmmm, that feels soooooo good!".

    Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say "Sorry, I really prefer it this way".

    Walk sideways to the photocopier.

    While riding an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.

    Say to your boss, "I like your style" and shoot him with double-barreled fingers.

    Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask, "Did you get all that, I don't want to have to repeat it".

    Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle (there must be a 'non-player' within sight).

    Shout random numbers while someone is counting.

    At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).

    Walk into a very busy person's office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on and off 10 times.

    For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as "Bob".

    Announce to everyone in a meeting that you "really have to go do a number two".

    After every sentence, say 'mon' in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in "the report's on your desk, mon". Keep this up for one hour.

    While a co-worker is out, move their chair into the elevator.

    In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, "Shut up, PLEASE! All of you just shut up!".

    At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, "As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again".

    In a co-worker's diary, write in 10am: "See how I look in tights".

    Carry your keyboard over to your colleague and ask "You wanna trade?".

    Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: "Do you hear that?" "What?" "Never mind, it's gone now".

    Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, "I can't talk about it".

    Posing as a maitre d', call a colleague and tell him he's won a lunch for four at a local restaurant. Let him go.

    Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig, etc) during a very important conference call.

    Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk.

    Hang a two-foot long piece of toilet paper from the back of your pants and act genuinely surprised when someone points it out.

    Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and donut, smash each donut with your fist.

    During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.

    Arrange toy figures on the table to represent each meeting attendee, move them according to the movements of their real-life counterparts.

    Send this website to everyone in your address book, even if they have sent it to you or have asked you not to send them stuff like this.


    Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.

    Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN".

    Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.

    Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think".

    Adjust the tint on your monitor so that the brightness level lights up the entire work area. Insist to others that you like it that way.

    Ask people what sex they are.

    Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Wear them one day after your boss does. (This is especially effective if your boss is the opposite sex).

    Send e-mail to the rest of the company to tell them what you're doing. For example: If anyone needs me, I'll be in the bathroom.

    Call the psychic hotline and just say, "Guess".

    When the money comes out of the ATM, scream "I Won!", "I Won!" "3rd time this week !!!"


    Tell your boss, "It's not the voices in my head that bother me, it's the voices in your head that do."

    Every time you see a broom yell, "Honey, your mother is here!" Insurance Stories



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