Wal-Mart
1. Take shopping carts for the express purpose of
filling them and stranding them at strategic locations. 2.
Ride those little electronic cars at the front of the store.
3. Set all the alarm clocks to go off at ten-minute intervals throughout the day.
4. Start playing Calvinball; see how many people you can get to join in.
5. Contaminate the entire auto department by sampling all the spray air fresheners.
6. Challenge other customers to duels with tubes of gift-wrap.
7. Leave cryptic messages on the typewriters. 8. Re-dress
the mannequins as you see fit. 9. When there are people behind
you, walk REALLY SLOWLY, especially thin narrow aisles. 10.
Walk up to an employee and tell him in an official tone, "I think we've got a Code 3 in Housewares," and see what happens.
11. Tune all the radios to a polka station; then turn them all off and turn the volumes to "10".
12. Play with the automatic doors. 13. Walk up to complete
strangers and say, "Hi! I haven't seen you in so long!..." etc. See if they play along to avoid embarrassment.
14. While walking through the clothing department, ask yourself loud enough for all to hear, "Who BUYS this junk, anyway?"
15. Repeat Number 14 in the jewelry department. 16. Ride a
display bicycle through the store; claim you're taking it for a "test drive."
17. Follow people through the aisles, always staying about five feet away. Continue to do this until they leave the department.
18. Play soccer with a group of friends, using the entire store as your playing field.
19. As the cashier runs your purchases over the scanner, look mesmerized and say, "Wow. Magic!"
20. Put M&M's on layaway. 21. Move "Caution: Wet Floor"
signs to carpeted areas. 22. Set up a tent in the camping
department; tell others you'll only invite them in if they bring pillows from Bed and Bath.
23. Test the fishing rods and see what you can "catch" from the other aisles.
24. Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon. 25.
Drape a blanket around your shoulders and run around saying, "...I'm Batman. Come, Robin--to the Batcave!"
26. TP as much of the store as possible. 27. Randomly throw
things over into neighboring aisles. 28. Play with the calculators
so that they all spell "hello" upside down. 29. When someone
asks if you need help, begin to cry and ask, "Why won't you people just leave me alone?"
30. When two or three people are walking ahead of you, run between them, yelling, "Red Rover!"
31. Make up nonsense products and ask newly hired employees if there are any in stock, i.e., "Do you have any Shnerples here?"
32. Take up an entire aisle in Toys by setting up a full scale battlefield with G.I. Joes vs. the X-Men.
33. Take bets on the battle described above. 34. Nonchalantly
"test" the brushes and combs in Cosmetics. 36. Hold indoor
shopping cart races. 37. Dart around suspiciously while humming
the theme from "Mission: Impossible." 38. Attempt to fit into
very large gym bags. 39. Attempt to fit others into very large
gym bags. 40. Say things like, "Would you be so kind as to
direct me to your Twinkies?" 41. Set up a "Valet Parking"
sign in front of the store. 42. Two words: "Marco Polo."
43. Leave Cheerios in Lawn and Garden, pillows in the pet food aisle, etc.
44. "Re-alphabetize" the CD's in Electronics. 46. When someone
steps away from their cart to look at something, quickly make off with it without saying a word.
47. Relax in the patio furniture until you get kicked out.
48. When an announcement comes over the loudspeaker, assume the fetal position and scream, "No, no! It's those voices again!"
49. Pay off layaways fifty cents at a time. 50. Drag a lounge
chair on display over to the magazines and relax. If the store has a food court, buy a soft drink; explain that you don't
get out much, and ask if they can put a little umbrella in it.
*BONUS* Attempt all of the above during the same visit.
Computer Lab
1.Log on, wait a sec, then get a frightened look on
your face and scream, "Oh my God, they've found me!" and bolt.
2.Laugh uncontrollably for about 3 minutes and then suddenly stop and look suspiciously at everyone who looks at you.
3.When your computer is turned off, complain to the monitor on duty that you can't get the darned thing to work. After he/she's
turned it on, wait 5 minutes, turn it off again, and repeat the process for a good half-hour.
4.Type frantically, often stopping to look at the person next to you evilly.
5.Before anyone else is in the lab, connect each computer to a different screen than the one it's set up with.
6.Write a program that plays the "Smurfs" theme song and play it at the highest volume possible over and over again.
7.Work normally for awhile. Suddenly look amazingly startled by something on the screen and crawl underneath the desk.
8.Ask the person next to you if they know how to tap into top-secret Pentagon files.
9.Use Interactive Send to make passes at people you don't know.
10.Make a small ritual sacrifice to the computer before you turn it on.
11.Bring a chainsaw, but don't use it. If anyone asks why you have it, say "Just in case..." mysteriously.
12.Type for awhile. Suddenly start cursing for 3 minutes about everything bad about your life. Then stop and continue typing.
13.Enter the lab, undress, and start staring at other people as if they're crazy while typing.
14. Light candles in a pentagram around your terminal before starting.
15.Stand on your chair and yell, "Help! There's a mouse." as you point to the computer's mouse.
16.Every time you press return and there is processing time required, pray "Ohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohpleaseohplease," and
scream "YES!" when it finishes. 17."DISK FIGHT!"
18.Turn the brightness on the monitor way down. Pull out a flashlight and shine it on the screen. Act as if it helps you see
the text on the screen. 19.Put a straw in your mouth and put
your hands in your pockets. Type by hitting the keys with the straw.
20.If you're sitting in a swivel chair, spin around singing "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" whenever there is processing time required.
21.Draw a picture of a (wo)man on a piece of paper and tape it to your monitor. Try to seduce it. Act like it hates you and
then complain loudly that (wo)men are worthless. 22.Try to
stick a Nintendo cartridge in the 3.5 disk drive. When it doesn't work, get the supervisor.
23.When you are on an IBM and when you turn it on, ask loudly where the smiling Apple face is when you turn on one of those.
24.Print out the complete works of Shakespeare, then when it's all done (two days later) say that all you wanted was one line.
25. Sit and stare at the screen, biting your nails noisily. After doing this for awhile, spit them out at the feet of the
person next to you. 26.Stare at the screen, grind your teeth,
stop, look at the person next to you. Repeat procedure, making sure you never provoke the person enough to let them blow up,
as this releases tension, and it is far more effective to let them linger.
27.If you have long hair, take a typing break, look for split ends, cut them, and deposit them on your neighbor's keyboard
as you leave. 28.Put a large, gold-framed portrait of the
British royal family on your desk and loudly proclaim that it inspires you.
29. Come to the lab wearing several layers of socks. Remove shoes and place them on top of the monitor. Remove socks layer
by layer and drape them around the monitor. Exclaim sudden haiku about the aesthetic beauty of cotton on plastic.
30.Take the keyboard and sit under the computer. Type up your paper like this. Then go to the lab supervisor and complain
about the bad working conditions. 31.Laugh hysterically, shout
"You will all perish in flames!!!" and continue working. 32.Bring
some dry ice and make it look like the computer is smoking.
33.Assign a musical note to every key (ex. the delete key is A flat). Whenever you hit a key, hum its note loudly. Write an
entire paper this way. 34.Attempt to eat your computer's mouse.
35.Borrow someone else's keyboard by reaching over, saying "Excuse me, mind if I borrow this for a sec?", unplugging the keyboard,
and taking it. 36.Bring in a bunch of magnets and have fun.
37.When doing calculations, pull out an abacus and say that sometimes the old ways are best.
38.Play Pong for hours on the most powerful computer in the lab.
39.Make a loud noise of hitting the same key over and over again until you see that your neighbor is noticing (You can hit
the space bar so your fill isn't affected). Then look at your neighbor's keyboard. Hit his/her delete key several times, erasing
an entire word. While you do this, ask: "Does your delete key work?" Shake your head, and resume hitting the space bar on
your keyboard. Keep doing this until, you've deleted about a page of your neighbor's document. Then, suddenly exclaim: "Well,
whaddya know? I've been hitting the space bar this whole time. No wonder it wasn't deleting! Ha!" Print out your document
and leave. 40.Remove your disk from the drive and hide it.
Go to the lab monitor and complain that your computer ate your disk. (For special effects, put some Elmer's glue on or around
the disk drive. Claim that the computer is drooling.) 41.Stare
at the person's next to yours screen, look really puzzled, burst out laughing and say "You did that?" loudly. Keep laughing,
grab your stuff and leave, howling as you go. 42. Point at
the screen. Chant in a made-up language while making elaborate hand gestures for a minute or two. Press return or the mouse,
then leap back and yell "COVEEEEERRRRR!" Peek up from under the table, walk back to the computer and say "Oh, good. It worked
this time," and calmly start to type again. 43.Keep looking
at invisible bugs and trying to swat them. 44.See who's online.
Send a total stranger a talk request. Talk to them like you've known them all your lives. Hang up before they get a chance
to figure out you're a total stranger. 45.Bring a small tape
player with a tape of really absurd sound effects. Pretend it's the computer and look really lost.
46.Pull out a pencil. Start writing on the screen. Complain that the lead doesn't work.
47.Come into the computer lab wearing several endangered species of flowers in your hair. Smile incessantly. Type a sentence,
then laugh happily, exclaim "You're such a marvel!!", and kiss the screen. Repeat this after every sentence. As your ecstasy
mounts, also hug the keyboard. Finally, hug your neighbor, then the computer assistant, and walk out.
48.Run into the computer lab, shout "Armageddon is here!!!!!", then calmly sit down and begin to type.
49.Quietly walk into the computer lab with a Black and Decker chainsaw, rev that baby up, and then walk up to the nearest
person and say, "Give me that computer or you'll be feeding my pet crocodile for the next week."
50.Bring a sleeping bag and pillow. Login to all the machines in one row. Lay down and go to sleep.
Mall
1. Dial 911 on the pay phone and then leave. 2. Pull the fire alarm and leave.
( iv'e done that one before) 3. In changing rooms yell out " I see London i see France I see someones underpants!" 4.
Pay for all of your puchases with penny's and demand that they count out every penny. 5.Ride mechanical horses with
coins fished out of the reflecting pond. 6.Try pants on backwards at the Gap. Ask the salesperson if they make your butt
look big. 7. Dial 900 numbers from demonstration phones in Radio Shack. 8. Sneeze on the sample tray at Hickory Farms
and helpfully volunteer to consume its now unwanted contents. 9. At the bottom of an escalator, scream "MY SHOE LACES!
AAARGH!" 10.Teach pet store parrots new vocabulary that makes them unsellable. 11.Test mattresses in your pj's. 12.
Sprint up the down escalator. 13. Make unusual piercing requests at Clair's. 14. Hand a stack of pants back to the changing
room attendant and scornfully announce that none of them are "leakproof." 15. If it's Christmas, ask the mall Santa to
sit on *your* lap. 16. Switch the men's and women's signs on the doors of the restrooms. 17. "Test" the tooth brushes.
Afterwards, place them back on the shelves in their packaging. 18. Hold indoor shopping cart races. 19. Hide in the
clothing rack and when people browse through say, 'PICK ME! PICK ME!' 20.Challenge other customers to duels with tubes
of gift wrap. 21. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from "Mission Impossible." 22. Show people your driver's
license and demand to know "whether they've seen this man." 23. Try on flea collars at the pet store while occasionally
pausing to scratch yourself. 24. Pay for all your purchases with two-dollar bills to provoke arguments over whether they're
real. 25. Ask the information desk for a pram(stroller), and someone to push you around in it. 26. "Toast" plastic gag
hot dogs in front of the fake fireplace display. 27. Leave on the plastic string connecting a new pair of shoes, and wander
around the mall taking two-inch steps.
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