Subject: How I amuse myself during boring meetingsI told this story to a friend of mine earlier today and had him laughing, so I thought I'd share---
In my job, I have to attend some rather boring meetings. So a few years ago, I started playing games (in my head ) that keep me amused.
The first one is sort of like "Survivor"--I look around the conference room and imagine that I am stranded on an island with the people in the room. I'll think things like, "Oh, those two would totally have a power struggle over who was in charge," or "those two would definitely hook up," or "that would be the crazy one running naked in the jungle." But that got boring after a while since most of my scenarios ended up with me building a raft and trying to escape!
The second one occured to me about two years ago. The conference room was overcrowded as a group of sales reps who were making a major pitch. So as this one man was droning on and on about his product, all of a sudden I thought, "Wow! He looks just like Gargomel on the Smurfs." So then, I started looking around the conference room and trying to decide what cartoon character each person looked like. I thought, "OK. She's Daphne from Scooby Doo and he's Wimpy from Popeye...." And it kept me entertained....
So, I'm wondering if anyone else does goofy stuff like this in boring meetings? If not, then maybe that is why I'm just a director and not a VP in my company....ha! |