I get it, waiting for someone to text you back sucks, but you might as well do something productive while you wait. Here are a few examples:
- Learn how to say the alphabet backwards
- Call your grandma
- Do your laundry that should’ve been done two weeks ago
- Get ahead on your homework for next week (maybe?)
- Eat a cookie
- Add at least 13 stickers to your laptop
- Photoshop your face onto your favorite animal
- Rewatch that episode of The Office when Michael burns his foot on his George Foreman grill
- Watch every single episode of The Office if you didn’t understand #8
- Eat another cookie
- Ride your bike
- Ride someone else’s bike
- Memorize the Starbucks menu
- Google the ~secret~ Starbucks menu
- Figure out how much Chipotle makes every year by charging extra for guac
- Unfollow everyone who doesn’t follow you back on Twitter (you probably should have done this a while ago)
- Unmute all your GroupMe’s and see what’s up
- Talk to a stranger about their day
- Learn about
- Send out a text to any other friends who might actually respond
- Learn a new language
- Eat three more cookies
- Read Kanye West’s entire Twitter feed
- Actually do the readings for your classes
- Learn how to make your favorite food in a mug in the microwave
- Watch every single Tasty video on Facebook
- Catch up on politics
- Call your mom
- Leave Post-it notes on everything
- Delete all your friends on Facebook that you don’t actually know
- Delete all the no longer relevant numbers from your phone
- Start recycling
- Start a blog
- Fill a piece of paper with doodles
- Study calculus
- Organize your desk
- Take all the pictures off of your phone and put them on your computer
- Learn all the words to “Rap God”
- Eat your vegetables
- Make an origami cat
- Clean your phone screen and computer screen because they probably look disgusting anyway
- Change your Twitter bio
- Stare at the ceiling and count how many people copy you
- Vow to not care when this person fails to respond to you
- And tell all your friends you will not care
- Apply for a passport
- Or apply to get your passport renewed
- Book a flight to a country where you will not have to show your face to anyone relevant when this person never responds to you
- Continue to pretend you don’t care
- Continue to act like other people actually think you don’t care
- Organize your closet
- Put “Out of Order” signs up on bathroom stalls
- Dance a lil bit
- Or a lot bit
- Stop lying to yourself and admit you actually care
- Accept that it might not be your day, but it can still be your week
- Do the dishes
- Vacuum
- Delete the apps you don’t use off of your phone
- Wake up on the right side of the bed
- Make tacos
- Go to Taco Bell
- Plan a road trip
- Delete the emails that you don’t need
- Anything but sit around waiting like a sad puppy
Good luck!