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How
To Simulate Being A Sailor
Buy
a steel dumpster, paint it gray inside and
out, and live in it for six months. Renovate your bathroom.
Build a wall across the middle of the bathtub and move
the shower head to chest level. When you take showers, make sure you
turn off
the water while you soap down.
Once a week, blow
compressed air up your chimney, making sure the wind carries
the soot onto your neighbor's house. Ignore his complaints.
Raise the thresholds and
lower the headers of your front and back doors, so
that you either trip or bang your head every time you pass through them.
On Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays, turn your water heater temperature up to
200 degrees. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, turn the water heater off.
On Saturdays and Sundays
tell your family they use too much water during the
week, so no bathing will be allowed.
Raise your bed to within 6 inches of the ceiling, so you can't turn over without getting out and then getting back in. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain. Have your spouse whip open the curtain about 3 hours after you go to sleep, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and say "Sorry, wrong rack". Make your family qualify to operate each appliance in your house - dishwasher operator, blender technician, etc. Lower all shower heads
to not more than four and one-half feet off the deck and
be sure the tops of all mirrors are no more than four and one-half feet
high as
well. Tell your family members that hunching to look in the mirror is
really
natural. Then yell "Attention on deck" when the cat walks by to see
how quickly they can assume a full upright position.
Have your neighbor come over each day at 5 am, blow a whistle so loud Helen Keller could hear it, and shout "Reveille, reveille, all hands heave out and trice up". Have your mother-in-law write down everything she's going to do the following day, then have her make you stand in your back yard at 6 a.m. while she reads it to you. Submit a request chit to your father-in-law requesting permission to leave your house before 3 pm. Empty all the garbage bins in your house and sweep the driveway three times a day, whether it needs it or not. Have your neighbor collect all your mail for a month, read your magazines, and randomly lose every 5th item before delivering it to you. Watch no TV except for
movies played in the middle of the night. Have your
family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one.
When your children are
in bed, run into their room with a megaphone shouting
that your home is under attack and ordering them to their battle
stations.
Post a menu on the
kitchen door informing your family that they are having
steak for dinner. Then make them wait in line for an hour. When they
finally
get to the kitchen, tell them you are out of steak, but they can have
dried ham
or hot dogs. Repeat daily until they ignore the menu and just ask for
hot dogs.
Set your alarm clock to
go off at random during the night. At the alarm, jump
up and dress as fast as you can, making sure to button your top shirt
button
and tuck your pants into your socks. Run out into the back yard and
uncoil the
garden hose.
Every week or so, throw
your cat or dog in the pool and shout "Man
overboard port side!" Rate your family members on how fast they respond.
Put the headphones from your stereo on your head, but don't plug them in. Hang a paper cup around your neck on a string. Stand in front of the stove, and speak into the paper cup "Stove manned and ready." After an hour or so, speak into the cup again "Stove secured." Roll up the headphones and paper cup and stow them in a shoebox. Place a podium at the end of your driveway. Have your family stand watches at the podium, rotating at 4 hour intervals. This is best done when the weather is worst. January is a good time. When there is a thunderstorm in your area, get a wobbly rocking chair, sit in it and rock as hard as you can until you become nauseous. Make sure to have a supply of stale crackers in your shirt pocket. Every couple of weeks,
dress up in your best clothes and go to the scummiest
part of town. Find the most run down, trashiest bar, and drink beer
until you
are hammered. Then walk all the way home.
Take a two week vacation
visiting the red light districts of Europe or the Far
East, and call it "world travel".
Lock yourself and your family in the house for six weeks. Tell them that at the end of the 6th week you are going to take them to Disney World for" liberty." At the end of the 6th week, inform them the trip to Disney World has been canceled because they need to get ready for an inspection, and it will be another week before they can leave the house.
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