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50 Random Things I Think About While At Work, When It's A Slow Day

My brain wanders when I get bored.

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For starters, I work at a snack and drink bar at a country club in a neighborhood. It is the perfect scene to people watch and think about random things. It can be slow during the day, so I have a lot of time on my hands.

1. How do these 10-to-14-year-olds have so much money to spend on food?

2. I don't even want to know how dirty that pool is...

3. Why did they stop making episodes of my favorite T.V. shows? Mainly Friends and The Office.

4. I am not getting paid enough to deal with these people.

5. I wonder what Justin Bieber is doing right now. Probably not working in 90-degree weather at a pool...

6. Food.

7. Why do mosquitoes and flies exist? They don't do anyone favors except by being annoying.

8. Sharks never stop swimming.

9. I could be sleeping right now.

10. Dang, I really want those pairs of shoes I saw at the mall.

11. Honestly, Disney World is a monopoly.

12. Kylie Jenner is my age and her net worth is already at 50 million, what am I doing with my life?

13. I wonder what the iPhone 27 is going to look like.

14. Apple iPhones have been around for like 10 years and they still haven't made uncrackable screens.

15. I have to work tomorrow.

16. Food.

17. I need to start buying cute outfits for football season.

18. I miss my dog.

19. I just want to be at the beach.

20. Why are people allowed to kill exotic animals like giraffes and lions?

21. I haven't stopped sweating since I got to work.

22. I wish I was rich.

23. I wonder when the whole world is going to be all electric cars?

24. I wish you could go to Hogwarts.

25. I need to start working out more.

26. Why can't unhealthy food just be healthy?

27. Less than 5% off the ocean has been discovered... woah.

28. I still can't get over that ants can lift 800 times their body weight. That is just crazy.

29. I wonder where I will be 5 years from now.

30. I still have 5 hours until I get to leave.

31. Woohoo! 31 is my lucky number.

32. How come kids in middle school look like they are 20 years old?

33. I'm going to own an island one day.

34. I wonder if anyone would notice if I left and went home?

35. I can't wait to go back to school.

36. How do airplanes fly themselves? They weigh like 170,000 pounds.

37. On that note, how do cruise ships float?

38. What should I have for dinner tonight?

39. People really need to stop polluting our oceans.

40. Is it time to leave yet?

41. I wish Michael Scott was my boss.

42. I'm hungry.

43. Maybe I should start a YouTube?

44. Hair is so gross.

45. The brain named the brain.

46. Who would have thought that a hole in the ground filled with water would be so entertaining?

47. Birds can go wherever they want.

48. If I could be any animal, I would be a domestic house dog.

49. I would love to be a talk show host, like Jimmy Fallon.

50. Only 4 more hours to go...

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