There are lots of magazines, books, and websites with suggestions of fun ideas and activities parents can do with their kids. Nobody knows why.
Parents don't have time for that stuff. Their kids are bringing home forms to fill out, reminders about early bedtimes for CATS testing, and backpacks crammed with "homework" which is a thinly disguised adult retraining program. There's plenty of projects and activities, but they aren't suggestions.
I guess it's like porn for parents--the same way porn represents imaginary people to have sex with, this stuff represents all the imaginary free time you have.
In Greek mythology there was this river you cross, then you forget everything. ... It was also the name of a band, in the 70s I think, Not "Foghat." Anyway, when you have kids it's like you cross over, and you can't remember what you used to do with all your free time.
So for Valentine's Day, here are some suggestions of fun activities for single people with no kids.
--Sacrifice your career for no particular reason.
--Lather, rinse, repeat.
--Make a list of all the things you want to do before you die, do them, then you'll have that out of the way.
--Carefully analyze Dylan lyrics.
--Clean your room.
--Stroll blithely through toy and candy aisles.
--Learn a foreign language from your instructions and owner's manuals.
--Finish some of those sentences you've started and meant to get back around to.
--Get married and have kids.
--Help O.J. look for the real killers.
--Check out those DVD special features.
--Draw a face on a cucumber, tuck it in bed, and read it some of Nathaniel Hawthorne's lesser known stories and sketches, like “An Old Apple-Seller” or “Wakefield.”
--Cure cancer.
--Come, be like us, it's better this way.
--Practice moving your lips out of synch when you speak, like you're in a dubbed martial-arts movie. That would be cool.
--Endlessly discuss with my daughter what color she should paint her living room when she's grown up.
--I don't know. Single adults. Something fun to do... Pictionary?
I particularly like the one about learning to talk out of sync with your lips. Sounds like fun to me. I have been single for so many more years than i ever had been with someone. The years i did have someone i got used to giving and that was my thing. Just another year right? Me and a group of my friends, mostly single have a "Fuck Valentines Dinner". I have always felt icky about it.
There are lots of magazines, books, and websites with suggestions of fun ideas and activities parents can do with their kids. Nobody knows why. 
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