1. Work Dares! 😀

    Work Dares! 😀

    One Point Dares

    • Ignore the first five people who say ‘good morning’ to you.
    • To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.
    • Leave your fly open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, “Sorry, I really prefer it this way”.
    • Walk sideways to the photocopier.
    • While riding in an elevator, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.
    • When in elevator with one other person, tap them on the shoulder and pretend it wasn’t you.
    • Finish all your sentences with “In accordance with the prophecy…”
    • Don’t use any punctuation.
    • Interrupt your conversation with someone by giving a huge dejected sigh.
    • Use your highlighter pen on the computer screen.
    • Run one lap around the office at top speed
    • Groan out loud in the toilet cubicle (at least one other ‘non-player’ must be in the toilet at the time).
    • Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and say, “Just called to say I can’t talk right now. Bye.”
    • To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your head.
    • When someone hands you a piece of paper, finger it, and whisper huskily, Mmmmmmm, that feels soooooo good!”
    • Leave your zipper open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, “Sorry, I really prefer it this way”.
    • Walk sideways to the photocopier.
    • While riding in a lift, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.

    Three Point Dares

    • Say to your boss, “I like your style”, wink, and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.
    • Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle.
    • Shout random numbers while someone is counting.
    • Every time you get an email, shout ”email”.
    • Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has got over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
    • Keep hole punching your finger. Each time you do, shout, “dagnamit, it’s happened again!”. Then do it again.
    • Introduce yourself to a new colleague as “the office bicycle”. Then wink and pout.
    • Call I.T. helpdesk and tell them that you can’t seem to access any p*rnography web sites.
    • Say to your boss, “I like your style” and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.
    • Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask, “Did you get all that, I don’t want to have to repeat it”.
    • Page yourself over the intercom (do not disguise your voice).
    • Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle (there must be a ‘non-player’ within sight).
    • Shout random numbers while someone is counting.

    Five Point Dares

    • At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).
    • Walk into a very busy person’s office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.
    • For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as “Dave”.
    • Announce to everyone in a meeting that you “really have to go do a number two”.
    • When you’ve picked up a call, before speaking finish off some fake conversation with the words, ”she can abort it for all I care”.
    • After every sentence, say ‘Mon’ in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in: “The report’s on your desk, Mon.” Keep this up for one hour.
    • In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, “Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!”
    • At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!”
    • Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: “Do you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, it’s gone now.”
    • Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit; smash each biscuit with your fist.
    • During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.
    • As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
    • Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
    • Sign or pp all letters with your initials and a swastika.
    • Dry hump the photocopier. When someone spots you, stop and cough embarrassingly, then lean in to the machine and whisper loudly, “I’ll see you tonight”.
    • At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem – (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).
    • Walk into a very busy person’s office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.
    • For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as “Bob”.
    • Announce to everyone in a meeting that you “really have to go do a number two”.
    • After every sentence, say ‘mon’ in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in “the report’s on your desk, mon”. Keep this up for one hour.
    • While an office mate is out, move their chair into the lift.
    • In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, “Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!”
    • At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again.”
    • In a colleague’s diary, write in 10am: “See how I look in tights”.
    • Carry your keyboard over to your colleague and ask “You wanna trade?”
    • Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: Do you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, it’s gone now”.
    • Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, “I can’t talk about it”.
    • Posing as a maitre d’, call a colleague and tell him he’s won a lunch for four at a local restaurant. Let him go.
    • Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig, etc) during a very important conference call.
    • Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk.
    • Hang a two-foot long piece of toilet roll from the back of your pants and act genuinely surprised when someone points it out.
    • Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit, smash each biscuit with your fist.
    • During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.
    • Arrange toy figures on the table to represent each meeting attendee, move them according to the movements of their real-life counterparts.

    And if that wasn’t enough for you – here are some examples of insane acts you can use anywhere…

    • At lunchtime, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hairdryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
    • Tell your children over dinner. “Due to the economy, we are going to have to let one of you go.”
    • Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
    • Put your rubbish bin on your desk and label it “IN.”
    • Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has gotten over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
    • In the subject field for all your e-mails, write ” FOR SEXUAL FAVOURS”.
    • Finish all your sentences with “In accordance with the prophecy.”
    • Don’t use any punctuation
    • As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
    • Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
    • Specify that your drive-through order is “to go.”
    • Sing along at the opera.
    • Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don’t rhyme.
    • Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
    • Five days in advance, tell your friends you can’t attend their party because you’re not in the mood.
    • Have your co-workers address you by your wrestling name, Rock Hard.
    • When the money comes out of the ATM, scream “I Won! I Won! 3rd time this week!!!”
    • When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot yelling, Run for your lives, they’re loose!”

    14/09/24

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