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| Is Your
Life A Royal Waste Of Time?
How much do YOU procrastinate? by Cinse Bonino |
Picture this: a really cool guy named, Devin, and a totally I' d-love-her-to-be-my-best-friend girl, named Frankie, get assigned a book report on Dracula. It is one hu-mong-go read. They are overwhelmed by the size of the book, and they didn't want to do it in the first place. (It was a consequence for some behavior we won't get into here.) They get together to tackle it. Here is Devin's list of what happened when they started to work . . .
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1. I fluffed the pillows before I stretched
out on my bed. They needed lots of fluffing. Fifteen minutes.
2. I shot hoops, using my dirty socks as the ball and my hamper as the basket. Score: six socks, eighteen points (from the bed each basket is a three-pointer). For some reason, Frankie didn't play, even after I offered her a choice of right or left sock. Twelve minutes.
3. We couldn't start working until we found what smelled under my bed. We couldn't find it. I think it moved to the closet. Frankie said no way was she looking in my closet. She calls it "the Black Hole of Palmdale." Almost an hour.
4. To get our thumbs in shape for reading, we both tried to tear a deck of cards in half. The cards didn't tear, but I did hurt my thumbs. Then we played cards until my thumbs felt better. Forty-five minutes.
5. Frankie painted her toenails and fingernails pearly white. Bored with watching her, I did my left thumbnail with a red marker, then found it wouldn't wash off, even after repeated rubbings. Cool. Thirty-two minutes.
6. When we were almost nearly ready to begin to start making notes on the chubby book, Frankie sharpened our pencil with my dad's electric sharpener. But she totally got into it. Soon only the eraser was left. Of course we had to find another pencil. Twenty-six minutes.
7. We had to rest after the search for a second pencil so we flipped around on the TV to see if anything good was on. That's when I knew we had luck on our side.
These two kids sure know how to procrastinate! They are the "king and queen of the snappy comeback," but do a royal job of not getting things done on time. How much do YOU put things off? Take our quiz and find out, because waiting until the last minute can have some dire consequences! Check out what happened to Frankie and Devin . . .
"Frankie and Devin are sent to do library duty after they fail to read the assigned novel for class. Ms. Figglehopper, the school librarian, sends the twosome to the back room -- with a slight wink. They quickly discover a crack in the wall, and they step into the world of Bram Stoker's Dracula. The wisecracking pair ham it up with the Dracula crew as they drive out the undead and learn a thing or two about "blood"-thickening plots."
Okay, okay, I admit - it sounds like fun, but I don't know if YOU can count on this type of stuff happening to you if you drag your feet. But, hey you never know! Meanwhile, NOW is NOT the time to procrastinate. Take the quiz. Right now. Find out if you should start worrying about weird cracks in the wall.
If you want to know what happened to Frankie and Devin - they're from the Cracked Classic, Trapped in Transylvania, read on.