- What do you think is on this list of what people do when nobody is watching?
From playing with a mop to voguing in the mirror, what do you do when nobody is watching? If yours isn’t on the list, be sure to add it to the comments!
- Have full conversations with themselves like they’re being interviewed.
- Make weird noises just because nobody is there to hear them.
- Sing songs incorrectly with absolute confidence.
- Change the lyrics to whatever makes them laugh.
- Dance for three seconds while waiting for something to heat up.
- Make dramatic faces in the mirror.
- Practice facial expressions they would never actually make around other people.
- Walk through the house pretending they’re in a music video.
- Pretend the mop is a microphone. Do you do this when nobody is watching?
- Narrate what they’re doing while cooking.
- Talk to their pets like they’re roommates.
- Give their pets different voices.
- Ask their pet a question and answer for them.
- Argue with themselves about what to eat.
- Open the refrigerator and just stand there.
- Open it again five minutes later.
- Eat something directly over the sink.
- Eat a snack while standing in the kitchen.
- Have an entire meal consisting of random snacks.
- Eat shredded cheese straight from the bag.
- Take one bite of something and decide they’re suddenly full.
- Smell food before eating it even when they know it’s fine.
- Smell milk before pouring it.
- Smell clean laundry.
- Smell candles they’ve already smelled ten times.
- Scratch an itch dramatically when nobody is around.
- Pick at a loose thread.
- Peel labels off bottles.
- Peel dried glue from their fingers.
- Pick at their nails.
- Crack their knuckles.
- Crack their neck. Do you do this when nobody is watching?
- Stretch and make an involuntary noise.
- Make a little “ugh” sound when standing up.
- Talk to the GPS.
- Argue with the GPS.
- Thank the GPS when it gets them somewhere.
- Apologize to furniture after bumping into it.
- Say “ow” after barely touching something.
- Look around after tripping even though nobody saw.
- Check themselves in every reflective surface.
- Use their phone camera as a mirror.
- Practice smiling.
- Practice looking casual.
- Take 40 selfies and keep none of them.
- Take one photo, zoom in, find one tiny flaw and obsess over it.
- Pretend they’re giving an acceptance speech.
- Imagine they’re being interviewed.
- Rehearse conversations that will probably never happen.
- Win arguments that haven’t happened.
- Think of the perfect comeback three days later.
- Recreate embarrassing conversations in their head.
- Randomly remember something embarrassing from elementary school.
- Physically cringe at memories nobody else remembers.
- Imagine what they’d do if they suddenly became famous.
- Imagine what they’d do if they suddenly became rich. Do you do this when nobody is watching?
- Imagine surviving bizarre hypothetical emergencies.
- Create entire fake scenarios before falling asleep.
- Invent relationships between complete strangers.
- Wonder what strangers’ lives are like.
- Make up backstories for people they see in public.
- Pretend they’re being followed by a camera while doing something mundane.
- Pretend they’re the main character walking down the hallway.
- Have imaginary arguments in the shower.
- Give themselves motivational speeches.
- Say “okay, let’s go” before doing something extremely minor.
- Psych themselves up before making a phone call.
- Practice what they’re going to say before ordering food.
- Practice how they’re going to ask for something.
- Practice how they’re going to say no.
- Practice how they’re going to leave a conversation.
- Say “I’m going to bed early tonight” and immediately do anything except sleep.
- Become wildly productive at midnight.
- Suddenly want to reorganize their entire life at 11:47 p.m.
- Make a to-do list instead of doing the thing.
- Rewrite the to-do list because it wasn’t aesthetically pleasing.
- Add something already completed just so they can cross it off.
- Clean the entire kitchen instead of answering one email.
- Start a completely unnecessary project because they suddenly have motivation. Do you do this when nobody is watching?
- Get emotionally attached to a random object.
- Keep a box because it’s “a really good box.”
- Keep a jar because “that could be useful.”
- Keep a bag full of other bags.
- Have a junk drawer that contains objects from several different centuries.
- Open the junk drawer just to see what’s inside.
- Forget what they were doing halfway through doing it.
- Walk into a room and completely lose the plot.
- Stand in the middle of the kitchen waiting for their brain to reboot.
- Search for something while holding it.
- Look for their phone while using the flashlight on their phone.
- Put something somewhere “safe” and never see it again. Do you do this when nobody is watching?
- Check the same place six times.
- Talk themselves through finding something.
- Say “where are you?” to an inanimate object.
- Celebrate silently when they finally find it.
- Then immediately lose something else.
Do you do any of these things when nobody is watching? Tell us what you think of these things in the comments!