I can't believe how much of my time is spent doing things that I don't even really want to do. I'm kind of a numbers person, and I often wonder exactly how much of my time is wasted by the crap of life, both avoidable and unavoidable. I'm sure it adds up to months, if not years. Off the top of my head, here are some things that, when I'm on my deathbed, I know I'll curse myself for wasting time on.
- Watching Season 8 of Beverly Hills 90210 (the Hilary Swank season)
- Time spent behind slow drivers on single lane roads (my biggest pet peeve)
- Every micro-second I spent in AP Chemistry
- The month I spent reading The Good Earth in 7th grade (there's something to be said for book banning; I wish this had been one of them).
- Time spent watching British humor trying to convince myself that it's funny when it's not.
- Every Mentos commercial I ever sat through (oddly entertaining on one hand, but a waste of time on the other).
- Time spent doing dishes and laundry (God do I hate doing dishes and laundry!)
- All the time that Norton and Windows Updates have taken out of my life when they usurp my computer.
- The two hours and change I spent in the theater seeing Mission Impossible.
- Waiting in waiting rooms.
- Getting stuck in conversations with people about boring crap and being too nice to implement an exit strategy.
What time will you want back when you're on your deathbed?
6 comments:
The worst thing about doing laundry is that you're never done unless you're doing it naked.
And they really tend to frown upon that at the laundrymat.
Same with dishes unless you use paper products. But there's always a random spoon or cup. Chores just suck!
i'd like all the money back i spent on issues of metal edge, circus, etc. although i still have a lot of those...and i laugh my ass off looking at them now. so maybe they were worth it.
oh - i will always want back the time spent watching kingdom of heaven. not even orlando bloom could redeem that thing.
Oh, God don't even get me started on things I'm sorry I spent money on.
I want all the time back that I waste sitting at traffic lights all over the city of Buffalo. I have never been to a region that has spent less time figuring out how to sync. up traffic lights. You just go from one light to the next.
I can't complain. I grew up with Cleveland traffic. Buffalo lights and traffic are a joke to me. (And I live a block away from where I work, so I literally do not encounter any traffic lights on my daily commute. I have a cushy life).
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