> Have you ever had a "Boring Day"?

Gosh Mel, your post about boring days was, well, not boring, just too long for my limited attention span. I don't do laundry, but I haven't been bored in years. There is always something unboring to do, even if you have to make it happen.

I like to do things like going into the store to buy 10 eggs.

Some day I'm going to get one of those invisible dog tricks. You know the one. It's just a chain that doesn't bend and there is an empty dog collar on the end.

The other day I saw a cell-phone case that looked like a holster for a pistol. Wouldn't it be fun to walk into the bank with one of those sticking out underneath your jacket?

One of my favorites is to ride down a street on a motor scooter and then a few minutes later do it again on a different scooter. After three or four different scoots go by with the same rider, people start walking out to the curb to ask what is going on.

I knew some twins once who would go into a business one at a time. First JG would go in and order, say, an ice cream cone. Then as soon as he was out the door, GG would go in and order the same flavor. Naturally, the clerk would say, "What did you do with the other one?" and GG would say, "What other one? I've never been in here before."

Many years ago, my crazy uncle got a steering wheel at a junk yard. He liked to drive down the street waving it out the window. Crazy people like that don't ever get bored.

When I was in high school, a friend tried to sell a lawn mower to a lady who lived in an apartment and had no yard. He was some salesman. She almost bought it.

When I was a kid, we lived in Hazard, Kentucky. That's in Perry County which in those days was a "dry" county. If somebody wanted to buy alcoholic beverages, they went to a bootlegger. One day a guy walked into my father's store on Main Street and asked him if there was any place around there where he could get a bottle of liquor. My father took him out to the sidewalk, pointed down the street and said, "Do you see that big building down there at the end of the block? That's the First Baptist Church and it's the only place on Main Street where you *can't* get a bottle of liquor." Running a store could get boring if you let it.

I used to teach school. I got tired, upset, discouraged, frustrated, but never bored. There was something different every day. Usually it was also unexpected. I can remember thinking, "There is nothing exciting planned for today. I wonder when it will happen?"

Down at the local car repair shop, a mechanic named Rob let a drill slip and drilled a small, painful hole in his hand. He went home, just a block away, to get his wife to bandage it. While he was gone, someone came in and said, "Where's Rob?" The boss said, "He got bored and went home."

I grow a garden. You can't get bored waiting to see what is going to happen to it. It could be rabbits, bugs, moles, wind, hail, frost, floods. . . . Sooner or later, something is going to happen. Exciting, isn't it?
Howard