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pinboy3niner

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1. Boredom: When I was a kid in Southern California (San Fernando Valley)...

Reply to Xipe Totec (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 06:26 PM

Aug 2016

Sitting with my friends on a very hot summer day, leaning back against the block wall in my backyard, saying "What do you wanna do?" "I dunno, what do you wanna do?" "I dunno..." ad infinitum.

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My definition of boredom. [View all] Xipe Totec Aug 2016 OP

Boredom: When I was a kid in Southern California (San Fernando Valley)... pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #1

Did you ever read 100 years of Solitude? Xipe Totec Aug 2016 #2

No, But I obviously couldn't have written it. Imagine a whole book with our lazy summer dialogue. pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #4

100 year saga, and half the characters are named Juan Arcadio Buendia nt Xipe Totec Aug 2016 #5

Having to sit through televised Hayduke Bomgarte Aug 2016 #3

1/60th Sentath Aug 2016 #6

Yea, that would be boring indeed. Especially repeated 50 times. nt Xipe Totec Aug 2016 #7

Watching Teletubbies on TV before we got the internet here. nt femmocrat Aug 2016 #8

Church service trof Aug 2016 #9

Ha! I trained as a Catholic altar boy. pinboy3niner Aug 2016 #11

I used to loathe boredom as a kid/teen True Dough Aug 2016 #10

Boredem is ... NanceGreggs Sep 2016 #12