‘What’s the most boring thing you’ve ever done?’ – 17 amusingly tedious tales
10.
‘Categorised all my plant seeds (100s of packets and ones I’ve collected myself) into a trading card binder and made inserts with notes on how to best grow and care for them with illustrations’
-AdPossible5121
11.
‘There was a bloke on YouTube (GeoPete) who did a YouTube video travelling from LA to New York… on googles street view maps.
‘Watched all of it.’
-ARC_1999
12.
‘I’ve been to a brush museum, a rope museum and a clay pipe museum.
‘I wouldn’t go to the pencil museum though. That’s where I draw the line.’
-geese_moe_howard
13.
‘As a teenager I wrote a letter of complaint to the local bus company because one of their drivers was a cunt. (I did not word it like this at the time.)’
-OmegaSusan
14.
‘Recently sent an email to a Telescope supplier in the UK enquiring about the weight of a new scope as it wasn’t listed in the spec. Also, pointed out there was a “y” missing on the word “Internally” – cut and pasted the bulleted line for reference. Also apologised for being anal, stating I used to write technical manuals and did a lot of proof reading.
‘Got an email back giving the weight and thanking me for pointing out the error and omission. It certainly was a rollercoaster of emotions…’
-yossanator
15.
‘Oh gosh, so many.
‘Hand folded over 1000 letters and placed them in envelopes for a mail shot
‘Gone through a list of 100s of PDFs, and one by one, downloaded them, saved them on a share point folder, then had to locate them on our website, delete them, then create a redirect rule for each link to go back to our home page
‘Had to open, check and delete thousands of emails that had built up in a spam inbox folder in the backend of our website.
‘So many more but it’s actually sad to think about lol. Yay for admin jobs’
-Sharp-Cantaloupe-918
16.
‘I did data entry for a few years. I didn’t feel like a human, more like a piece of possessed organic machinery.’
-Sad_Cardiologist5388
17.
‘I have been a member of a Bob Dylan forum for around eight years and have met up with many members of said forum primarily to discuss Bob Dylan.
‘Still nowhere near as boring as the ordinary car festival I twice attended with my friends, Festival of the Unexceptional. I really don’t like cars and having to listen to an hour long conversation about the early 1990s Proton Saga was quite trying.’
-HighWaterSheriff
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