1. Sleep on the shelf in your closet. Replace the closet door with a curtain.  Three hours after you go to sleep, have your wife whip open the curtain, shine a flashlight in your eyes, and mumble "Sorry, wrong rack."

 2. Renovate your bathroom.  Build a wall across the middle of your bathtub and move the shower head down to chest level.  When you take showers, make sure you shut off the water while soaping.

 3. Every time there's a thunderstorm, go sit in a wobbly rocking chair and rock as hard as you can until you're nauseous.

 4. Put lube oil in your humidifier instead of water and set it to "High".

 5. Don't watch TV except movies in the middle of the night.  Also, have your family vote on which movie to watch, then show a different one.

 6. Leave lawnmower and/or chainsaw running in your living room twenty-four hours a day for proper noise level.

 7. Have the paperboy give you a haircut.

 8. Once a week blow compressed air up through the chimney, making sure the wind carries soot across onto your neighbors house.  Laugh at him when he curses you.

 9. Buy a trash compactor and only use it once a week.  Store up garbage in the other side of your bathtub.

10. Wake up every night at midnight and have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on stale bread and a cup of green Koolaid.

11. Set your alarm clock to go off at random times during the night.  When it goes off, jump out of the bed and get dressed as fast as you can, then run out into your front yard and sit in your car (battle station).

12. Once a month take every major appliance completely apart and then put them back together.

13. Use 18 scoops of coffee per pot, brew (cook) and allow it to sit for 5 or 6 hours before drinking.

14. Invite at least 85 people you don't really like to come and visit for a couple of months.

15. Have a fluorescent lamp installed on the bottom of your coffee table and lie under it to read books.

16. Raise the thresholds and lower the top sills on your front and back doors so that you either trip over the threshold or hit your head on the sill every time you pass through one of them.

17. When making cakes, prop up one side of the pan while it is baking.  Then spread icing really thick on one side to level off the top.

18. Every so often, throw your cat into the swimming pool, shout "Man Overboard, Ship Recovery!".

19. Run into the kitchen and sweep all the pots/pans/dishes off the counter, then yell at your wife for not having the place "stowed for sea".

20. Put on headphones from your stereo (don't plug them in).  Go and stand in front of your stove.  Say (to nobody in particular), "Stove manned and ready".  Stand there for 3 or 4 hours.  Say (once again, to nobody in particular), "Stove secured".  Roll up the cord and put the headphones away.

Submitted by:
    Warner T. Reid, former 1stLt. USMCR