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I am looking for realistic, fun, creative and unique ways of keeping ones self occupied. Just for future references.
So I am looking for great ideas from everyone.
Also, ahead of time...
Thank you for your Ideas.
Answer
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 SLOW,
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. Make up nonsense products and ask newly hired
employees if there are any in stock, i.e., "Do you have any
Shnerples here?"
31. Take up an entire aisle in Toys by setting up a full scale
battlefield with G.I. Joes vs. the X-Men.
32. Take bets on the battle described above.
33. Hold indoor shopping cart races.
34. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from
"Mission: Impossible."
35. Run up to an employee (preferably a male) while
squeezing your legs together and practically yell at him " I
need some tampons!!"
36. Try on bras in the sewing/fabric department.
37. Try on bras over top of your clothes.
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.
45. Make a trail of orange juice on the ground, leading to the
restrooms
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.
TV
Addictinggames.com
Yahooanswers.com
Basketball
Tennis
Swimming
PRANKS!
Messing with people in a grocery store by pulling ALL the numbers down in the 'pick a number' line and watching them get frustrated while trying to put the numbers back in.
Softball
SHOPPING!
Blogs
Facebook.com
Reading a book
Dressing like a banana or something and dancing on the side of the road and watching peoples expressions.
Going up to someone while in a car with a map, asking them directions to a town you are in and when they say "You're already there..." say "Sorry! Wrong state!!!"
Stare at bypassing drivers (while in the passenger or back seat of a moving vehicle) while wearing a gorilla mask
Staring at bypassing drivers (while in the passenger or back seat of a moving vehicle) and make glasses out of your hands and watch them take double takes.
Go to the zoo
Go to the aquarium
Arcade
Rides
Going to the cafe
Going for pizza with friends
Drawing
POTTERY!!!!
-Wax the ceiling
-Rearrange political campaign signs
-Sharpen your teeth
-Play Houdini with one of your siblings
-Braid your dog's hair
-Clean and polish your belly button
-Water your dog...see if he grows
-Wash a tree
-Knight yourself
-Name your child Edsel
-Scare Stephen King
-Give your cat a mohawk
-Purr
-Mow your carpet
-Play Pat Boone records backwards
-Vacuum your lawn
-Whine
-Rake your carpet
-Re-elect Richard Nixon
-Critique "Three's Company"
-Listen to a painting
-Play with matches
-Buff your cat
-Race ferrets
-Paint your house...Day-Glo Orange
-Have a formal dinner at White Castle
-Read Homer in the original Greek
-Change your mind
-Change it back
-Learn Greek
-Watch the sun...see if it moves
-Stand on your head
-Stand on someone else's head
-Build a pyramid
-See how long you can stay awake
-See how long you can sleep
-Spit shine your Nikes
-Paint your teeth
-Wear a salad
-Speak with a forked tongue
-Get your dog braces
-Shave a shrub
-Have a proton fight
-Watch a car rust
-Quiver
-Rotate your carpet
-Learn to type...with your toes
-Set up your Christmas tree in April
-Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
-Be someone special
-Mail it to a friend
-Go back to square one
-Factor your social security number
-Take the fifth
-Memorize a series of random numbers
-Read the 1962 Des Moines white pages
-Join the Foreign Legion
-Learn Sanskrit
-Exist...existentially, of course
-Print counterfeit Confederate money
-Kick a cabbage
-Take a picture
-Sandpaper a mushroom
-Put it back
-Play solitaire...for cash
-Abuse your patio furniture
-Run for Pope
-Count to a million...fast
-Make a schematic drawing...of a rock
-Commit seppuku...with a paper knife
-Revert
-Think shallow thoughts
-Sleep on a bed of nails
-Boil ice cream
-DON'T toss and turn
-Run around in squares
-Think of quadruple entendres
-Speak in acronyms
-Have your pillow X-rayed
-Drink straight shots...of water
-Calmly have a nervous breakdown
-Give your goldfish a perm
-Fly a brick
-Play tag...on 35W
-Exorcise a ghost
-Be blue
-Exercise a ghost
-Be red
-But don't be orange
-Paint stripes on a lake
-Ski Kansas
-Sleep in freefall
-Kill a Joule
-Test thin ice...with a pogo stick
-Apply for a unicorn hunting license
-Do a good job
-Crawl
-Invite the Mansons over for dinner
-Paint your windows
-Watch a watch until it stops
-Flash your goldfish
-Paint
-Smile
-Paint a smile
-Flirt with an evergreen
-Rotate your garden...daily
-Shoot a fire hydrant
-Pretend you're blind
-Apologize to it
-Plant a shoe
-Sweat
-Give a Rorschach test to your gerbil
-Turn
-Take your sofa for a walk
-Write a letter to Plato
-Mail it
-Start
-Stop
-Dial 911 and breathe heavily
-Go to a funeral...tell jokes
-Play the piano...with mittens on
-Starch your shoes
-Polish your Calvin's
-Contemplate a cockroach
-Get a dog to chase your car
-Investigate the Czar
-Let him catch it
-Form a political party
-Climb a sidewalk
-Have a political party
-Get diagonal...with a good friend
-Ride a loaf of bread
-Sharpen a carrot
-Interrogate a gerbil
-Annoy yourself
-Get mad at yourself
-Stop speaking to yourself
-Be a side effect
-Ride a bicycle...up Mt. McKinley
-Duck
-Redecorate...your garage
-Develop a complex
-Join the Army...be someone simple
-Try harder
-Hit the deck
-Put leg warmers on your furniture
-Cut the deck
-Scheme
-Sit
-Water your family room
-Stay
-Cause a power failure
-Roll over
-Wriggle
-Play dead
-Donate your brother's body to science
-Find a witch
-Ask why
-Burn her
-Regress
-Sleepwalk without sleeping
-Go bow hunting for Toyotas
-Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids
-Jump back
-Play to lose
-Scalp a street light
-Have your car painted...plaid
-Read a tomato
-Sharpen your sleeping skills
-Watch a game show...take notes
-Put out a fire
-Interview a cloud
-If you can't find a fire, make one
-Play tiddlywinks...go for blood
-Play basketball...in a minefield
-Crumple
-Translate Shakespeare into English
-Skydive to church
-Cheer u
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 SLOW,
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. Make up nonsense products and ask newly hired
employees if there are any in stock, i.e., "Do you have any
Shnerples here?"
31. Take up an entire aisle in Toys by setting up a full scale
battlefield with G.I. Joes vs. the X-Men.
32. Take bets on the battle described above.
33. Hold indoor shopping cart races.
34. Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from
"Mission: Impossible."
35. Run up to an employee (preferably a male) while
squeezing your legs together and practically yell at him " I
need some tampons!!"
36. Try on bras in the sewing/fabric department.
37. Try on bras over top of your clothes.
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.
45. Make a trail of orange juice on the ground, leading to the
restrooms
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.
TV
Addictinggames.com
Yahooanswers.com
Basketball
Tennis
Swimming
PRANKS!
Messing with people in a grocery store by pulling ALL the numbers down in the 'pick a number' line and watching them get frustrated while trying to put the numbers back in.
Softball
SHOPPING!
Blogs
Facebook.com
Reading a book
Dressing like a banana or something and dancing on the side of the road and watching peoples expressions.
Going up to someone while in a car with a map, asking them directions to a town you are in and when they say "You're already there..." say "Sorry! Wrong state!!!"
Stare at bypassing drivers (while in the passenger or back seat of a moving vehicle) while wearing a gorilla mask
Staring at bypassing drivers (while in the passenger or back seat of a moving vehicle) and make glasses out of your hands and watch them take double takes.
Go to the zoo
Go to the aquarium
Arcade
Rides
Going to the cafe
Going for pizza with friends
Drawing
POTTERY!!!!
-Wax the ceiling
-Rearrange political campaign signs
-Sharpen your teeth
-Play Houdini with one of your siblings
-Braid your dog's hair
-Clean and polish your belly button
-Water your dog...see if he grows
-Wash a tree
-Knight yourself
-Name your child Edsel
-Scare Stephen King
-Give your cat a mohawk
-Purr
-Mow your carpet
-Play Pat Boone records backwards
-Vacuum your lawn
-Whine
-Rake your carpet
-Re-elect Richard Nixon
-Critique "Three's Company"
-Listen to a painting
-Play with matches
-Buff your cat
-Race ferrets
-Paint your house...Day-Glo Orange
-Have a formal dinner at White Castle
-Read Homer in the original Greek
-Change your mind
-Change it back
-Learn Greek
-Watch the sun...see if it moves
-Stand on your head
-Stand on someone else's head
-Build a pyramid
-See how long you can stay awake
-See how long you can sleep
-Spit shine your Nikes
-Paint your teeth
-Wear a salad
-Speak with a forked tongue
-Get your dog braces
-Shave a shrub
-Have a proton fight
-Watch a car rust
-Quiver
-Rotate your carpet
-Learn to type...with your toes
-Set up your Christmas tree in April
-Buy the Brooklyn Bridge
-Be someone special
-Mail it to a friend
-Go back to square one
-Factor your social security number
-Take the fifth
-Memorize a series of random numbers
-Read the 1962 Des Moines white pages
-Join the Foreign Legion
-Learn Sanskrit
-Exist...existentially, of course
-Print counterfeit Confederate money
-Kick a cabbage
-Take a picture
-Sandpaper a mushroom
-Put it back
-Play solitaire...for cash
-Abuse your patio furniture
-Run for Pope
-Count to a million...fast
-Make a schematic drawing...of a rock
-Commit seppuku...with a paper knife
-Revert
-Think shallow thoughts
-Sleep on a bed of nails
-Boil ice cream
-DON'T toss and turn
-Run around in squares
-Think of quadruple entendres
-Speak in acronyms
-Have your pillow X-rayed
-Drink straight shots...of water
-Calmly have a nervous breakdown
-Give your goldfish a perm
-Fly a brick
-Play tag...on 35W
-Exorcise a ghost
-Be blue
-Exercise a ghost
-Be red
-But don't be orange
-Paint stripes on a lake
-Ski Kansas
-Sleep in freefall
-Kill a Joule
-Test thin ice...with a pogo stick
-Apply for a unicorn hunting license
-Do a good job
-Crawl
-Invite the Mansons over for dinner
-Paint your windows
-Watch a watch until it stops
-Flash your goldfish
-Paint
-Smile
-Paint a smile
-Flirt with an evergreen
-Rotate your garden...daily
-Shoot a fire hydrant
-Pretend you're blind
-Apologize to it
-Plant a shoe
-Sweat
-Give a Rorschach test to your gerbil
-Turn
-Take your sofa for a walk
-Write a letter to Plato
-Mail it
-Start
-Stop
-Dial 911 and breathe heavily
-Go to a funeral...tell jokes
-Play the piano...with mittens on
-Starch your shoes
-Polish your Calvin's
-Contemplate a cockroach
-Get a dog to chase your car
-Investigate the Czar
-Let him catch it
-Form a political party
-Climb a sidewalk
-Have a political party
-Get diagonal...with a good friend
-Ride a loaf of bread
-Sharpen a carrot
-Interrogate a gerbil
-Annoy yourself
-Get mad at yourself
-Stop speaking to yourself
-Be a side effect
-Ride a bicycle...up Mt. McKinley
-Duck
-Redecorate...your garage
-Develop a complex
-Join the Army...be someone simple
-Try harder
-Hit the deck
-Put leg warmers on your furniture
-Cut the deck
-Scheme
-Sit
-Water your family room
-Stay
-Cause a power failure
-Roll over
-Wriggle
-Play dead
-Donate your brother's body to science
-Find a witch
-Ask why
-Burn her
-Regress
-Sleepwalk without sleeping
-Go bow hunting for Toyotas
-Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids
-Jump back
-Play to lose
-Scalp a street light
-Have your car painted...plaid
-Read a tomato
-Sharpen your sleeping skills
-Watch a game show...take notes
-Put out a fire
-Interview a cloud
-If you can't find a fire, make one
-Play tiddlywinks...go for blood
-Play basketball...in a minefield
-Crumple
-Translate Shakespeare into English
-Skydive to church
-Cheer u
How to survive while homeless?
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Big Slick
I may be without a home soon, so I was looking for some advice. I have no job, no one I can stay with, no car to sleep in, and very little money. I have a few clothes a some hygiene products (toothpaste, deodorant, razor, soap).
Thank you.
I know this isn't the right category for this question, but I wasn't sure where else to put it. If anyone knows where this goes, please let me know. Thank you.
Answer
http://www.nationalhomeless.org for a shelter directory and good advice in preparing for homelessness. Before you get without a place get your ID in order, state issued ID card if no driver's license, copy of your birth certificate, if you are getting your food on your own apply for food stamps. If under 18 apply for medicaid too. Find an address where you can get mail. See if you are eligible for a free phone at either http://www.safeling.com or http://assurancewireless.com. (apply for the food stamps first and having them makes you eligible otherwise goes by income ), see if you have a friend or relative where you can leave what you can not carry with you but don't want to loose? Someone who will let you wash clothes or take a shower there once in a while?
If you are under 21 also check out http://800runaway.org if you are in the US or Canada or call 800 RUNAWAY . This is for anyone under 21 who does not have a good safe place to be not just runaways. They have the best directory on youth shelters and best info for young ppl on the street. Also in US go to http://www.feedingamerica.org or if somewhere else do a web search for food help and for soup kitchens + the place you are.
You need to keep warm in cool weather and cool in hot weather, clean water or other clean beverage, food, & to protect yourself &your stuff. A sleeping bag and small tent can be helpful but if no safe place to keep them and have to carry them around it marks you as homeless which sets you up for harassment & they may get stolen. If you are wanting to be less visibly homeless get 1 or 2 "survival blankets" which are a reflective plastic sheet that keeps body heat in in winter and sun heat out in summer. They fold up to about the size of a cigarette pack. Coleman makes them. WallMart and such places sell them so do some larger grocery stores or order on line. Cost $2-3. Add a plastic a drop cloth and some fish line to string it up with like a tent and you have shelter in your pocket. Get a $1 rain poncho that has its own plastic case.
Most cities have shelters usually a bunk room with a lot of people sharing a sleeping space. It is inside, they feed you breakfast and probably supper, they usually have showers, bad part it is a bunch of people some of whom are not well or clean physically or mentally all in one place. Sleeping in the street or in a park is not allowed in most urban places. Rural places have fewer shelters but more possibilities for camping and maybe privacy.
Places to hang out and be safe. Best place is a job one that includes a place to stay many motels, resorts, camps, farms do. Otherwise work nights if possible, safer and you get a lot less hassle if you are snoozing in daytime. Waffle house type place probably means daily tips. Also good are temp help agencies, dish washing, clearing tables. If you can get hired at a hospital or nursing home even doing laundry or room cleaning they will often pay for your training for a better job. Libraries seem like good places to just be but if they think you are homeless they will throw you out or bust you. Large hospital ER waiting rooms are fairly safe places so is the employment office especially if crowded (register for work of course and check the computer job listings some job may turn up and anyway it makes you look legit) Be cautious about changing clothes and washing up in public rest rooms. Locate a few where there is just the one 'commode and you can lock the door. If you must change in a stall one keep all your stuff in the stall and don't make it obvious you are changing or washing up because some people and places will complain or even throw a vagrancy charge at you.
Hope this helps it is not much fun but it is survivable
http://www.nationalhomeless.org for a shelter directory and good advice in preparing for homelessness. Before you get without a place get your ID in order, state issued ID card if no driver's license, copy of your birth certificate, if you are getting your food on your own apply for food stamps. If under 18 apply for medicaid too. Find an address where you can get mail. See if you are eligible for a free phone at either http://www.safeling.com or http://assurancewireless.com. (apply for the food stamps first and having them makes you eligible otherwise goes by income ), see if you have a friend or relative where you can leave what you can not carry with you but don't want to loose? Someone who will let you wash clothes or take a shower there once in a while?
If you are under 21 also check out http://800runaway.org if you are in the US or Canada or call 800 RUNAWAY . This is for anyone under 21 who does not have a good safe place to be not just runaways. They have the best directory on youth shelters and best info for young ppl on the street. Also in US go to http://www.feedingamerica.org or if somewhere else do a web search for food help and for soup kitchens + the place you are.
You need to keep warm in cool weather and cool in hot weather, clean water or other clean beverage, food, & to protect yourself &your stuff. A sleeping bag and small tent can be helpful but if no safe place to keep them and have to carry them around it marks you as homeless which sets you up for harassment & they may get stolen. If you are wanting to be less visibly homeless get 1 or 2 "survival blankets" which are a reflective plastic sheet that keeps body heat in in winter and sun heat out in summer. They fold up to about the size of a cigarette pack. Coleman makes them. WallMart and such places sell them so do some larger grocery stores or order on line. Cost $2-3. Add a plastic a drop cloth and some fish line to string it up with like a tent and you have shelter in your pocket. Get a $1 rain poncho that has its own plastic case.
Most cities have shelters usually a bunk room with a lot of people sharing a sleeping space. It is inside, they feed you breakfast and probably supper, they usually have showers, bad part it is a bunch of people some of whom are not well or clean physically or mentally all in one place. Sleeping in the street or in a park is not allowed in most urban places. Rural places have fewer shelters but more possibilities for camping and maybe privacy.
Places to hang out and be safe. Best place is a job one that includes a place to stay many motels, resorts, camps, farms do. Otherwise work nights if possible, safer and you get a lot less hassle if you are snoozing in daytime. Waffle house type place probably means daily tips. Also good are temp help agencies, dish washing, clearing tables. If you can get hired at a hospital or nursing home even doing laundry or room cleaning they will often pay for your training for a better job. Libraries seem like good places to just be but if they think you are homeless they will throw you out or bust you. Large hospital ER waiting rooms are fairly safe places so is the employment office especially if crowded (register for work of course and check the computer job listings some job may turn up and anyway it makes you look legit) Be cautious about changing clothes and washing up in public rest rooms. Locate a few where there is just the one 'commode and you can lock the door. If you must change in a stall one keep all your stuff in the stall and don't make it obvious you are changing or washing up because some people and places will complain or even throw a vagrancy charge at you.
Hope this helps it is not much fun but it is survivable
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