Starting Out Big - With a List

Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 12:48 am. 10 comments

Our goal is to have original ideas that other people have hopefully not posted anywhere online (although everything seems to already be online, so maybe by digging deep you can always find something at least remotely similar). But sometimes what’s already out there is so good that it doesn’t make sense to try to make it any better. What we have here is a list of 20 things you can do in a large store, such as Wal-Mart or Target for instance. This has been circulating online for some time now, and is certainly not our original and new creation - but it seems like a great way to get us started (with an overload of ideas, nonetheless). Some of these are of course a bit funnier than others. Let us know if you’ve done any of these or plan on doing them:

• Set all the alarm clocks to go off at 10 minute intervals
• Make a trail of orange juice on the floor to the restrooms.
• Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone,”I think we have a code 3 in housewares” and see what happens.
• Turn all the radios to a polka station, then turn them all off and turn the volumes to 10.
• Challenge other customers to a duel with tubes of gift wrap.
• Move “CAUTION WET FLOOR” signs to carpet areas.
• Set up a tent in the camping department; tell others you’ll only invite them if they bring pillows from the bedding department.
• When someone asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask “Why won’t you people leave me alone?”
• Look right into the security camera and use it as a mirror while you pick your nose.
• Take up an entire aisle in toys by setting up a full scale battlefield with G.I. Joe and the X-Men.
• Ask other customers if they have any Grey Poupon.
• While handling guns in the hunting department ask the clerk if he knows where the anti-depressants are.
• Switch signs on the men’s and women’s bathrooms.
• Dart around suspiciously while humming the theme from “Mission Impossible”.
• Drop boxes of condoms into random shopping carts.
• In the auto department, practice your Madonna look using different size funnels.
• Hide in the clothing rack and when people browse through say “PICK ME! PICK ME!”.
• When an announcement comes over the loud speaker assume the fetal position and scream “NO! NO! It’s those voices again”.
• Go to the food court, get a soft drink, tell them you don’t get out much and would they put one of those little umbrellas in it.
• Go into the fitting room and yell real loud….”Hey we’re out of toilet paper in here!”