The material presented
here is not Al-Anon Conference Approved Literature. It is a method
to exchange
information, ideas, feelings, problems and solutions on a personal
level.
1. I have to floss my cat. 2. I`ve dedicated my life to linguini. 3. I want to spend more time with my blender. 4. The President said he might drop in. 5. The man on television told me to say tuned. 6. I`ve been scheduled for a karma transplant. 7. I`m staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture. 8. It`s my parakeet`s bowling night. 9. It wouldn`t be fair to the other Beautiful People. 10. I`m building a pig from a kit. 11. I did my own thing and now I`ve got to undo it. 12. I`m enrolled in aerobic scream therapy. 13. There`s a disturbance in the Force. 14. I`m doing door-to-door collecting for static cling. 15. I have to go to the post office to see if I`m still wanted. 16. I`m teaching my ferret to yodel. 17. I have to check the freshness dates on my dairy products. 18. I`m going through cherry cheesecake withdrawl. 19. I`m planning to go downtown to try on gloves. 20. My crayons all melted together. 21. I`m trying to see how long I can go without saying yes. 22. I`m in training to be a household pest. 23. I`m getting my overalls overhauled. 24. My patent is pending. 25. I`m attending the opening of my garage door. 26. I`m sandblasting my oven. 27. I`m worried about my vertical hold. 28. I`m going down to the bakery to watch the buns rise. 29. I`m being deported. 30. The grunion are running. 31. I`ll be looking for a parking space. 32. My Millard Filmore Fan Club meets then. 33. The monsters haven`t turned blue yet, and I have to eat more dots. 34. I`m taking punk totem pole carving. 35. I have to fluff my shower cap. 36. I`m converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian. 37. I`ve come down with a really horrible case of something or other. 38. I made an appointment with a cuticle specialist. 39. My plot to take over the world is thickening. 40. I have to fulfill my potential. 41. I don`t want to leave my comfort zone. 42. It`s too close to the turn of the century. 43. I have some real hard words to look up in the dictionary. 44. My subconscious says no. 45. I`m giving nuisance lessons at a convenience store. 46. I left my body in my other clothes. 47. The last time I went, I never came back. 48. I`ve got a Friends of Rutabaga meeting. 49. I have to answer all of my "occupant" letters. 50. None of my socks match. 51. I have to be on the next train to Bermuda. 52. I`m having all my plants neutered. 53. People are blaming me for the Spanish-American War. 54. I changed the lock on my door and now I can`t get out. 55. I`m making a home movie called "The Thing That Grew in My Refrigerator." 56. I`m attending a perfume convention as guest sniffer. 57. My yucca plant is feeling yucky. 58. I`m touring China with a wok band. 59. My chocolate-appreciation class meets that night. 60. I never go out on days that end in "Y." 61. My mother would never let me hear the end of it. 62. I`m running off to Yugoslavia with a foreign-exchange student named Basil Metabolism. 63. I just picked up a book called "Glue in Many Lands" and I can`t put it down. 64. I`m too old/young for that stuff. 65. I have to wash/condition/perm/curl/tease/torment my hair. 66. I have too much guilt. 67. There are important world issues that need worrying about. 68. I have to draw "Cubby" for an art scholarship. 69. I`m uncomfortable when I`m alone or with others. 70. I promised to help a friend fold road maps. 71. I feel a song coming on. 72. I`m trying to be less popular. 73. My bathroom tiles need grouting. 74. I have to bleach my hare. 75. I`m waiting to see if I`m already a winner. 76. I`m writing a love letter to Richard Simmons. 77. You know how we psychos are. 78. My favorite commercial is on TV. 79. I have to study for a blood test. 80. I`m going to be old someday. 81. I`ve been traded to Cincinnati. 82. I`m observing National Apathy Week. 83. I have to rotate my crops. 84. My uncle escaped again. 85. I`m up to my elbows in waxy buildup. 86. I have to knit some dust bunnies for a charity bazaar. 87. I`m having my baby shoes bronzed. 88. I have to go to court for kitty littering. 89. I`m going to count the bristles in my toothbrush. 90. I have to thaw some karate chops for dinner. 91. Having fun gives me prickly heat. 92. I`m going to the Missing Persons Bureau to see if anyone is looking for me. 93. I have to jog my memory. 94. My palm reader advised against it. 95. My Dress For Obscurity class meets then. 96. I have to stay home and see if I snore. 97. I prefer to remain an enigma. 98. I think you want the OTHER [your name] . 99. I have to sit up with a sick ant. 100. I`m trying to cut down. 101.... well, maybe.
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Everything I have ever let go of has claw marks all over it.
Love the list, though I don't know if I could say most of those with a straight face.
Miss Manners always had a good one - if you just can't seem to stop at "no", you can add "I'm afraid it's just not possible." Sounds polite, means nothing.