Look in rear vision mirror and count your open pores.
Pluck long black hairs from behind your knees which you missed when shaving that morning.
Search through handbag for runaway barley sugar.
Pick fluff off barley sugar and eat slowly.
Closely observe people entering and leaving store and .give them an original Game of Thrones character name like; Petyr Baygon, Polish the Bannister, Jon Dyna-Gro and Eejit, Various Tarpaulins, Stains of the Bathatheon, Hoe-dor, Neon Spraytoy.
Push cuticles back on fingernails whilst acknowledging to self how unfunny those names are .
Count up how many calories you have already eaten today. Calculate if you refrain from eating for the rest of the day and go for an hour long walk wearing ankle weights you can possibly afford to eat an entire Dr Oetker pizza that night.
Recalculate possibility if you up it to a two hour walk.
Stare at the sky until you can see the white cells moving through the capillaries in your eyes. Watch them for a while.
See how many signs you can read whilst holding your breath.
Do twenty pelvic floor exercises.
Calculate calories you just burned.
Take reading glasses out of case and clean them thoroughly.
Put them on and look in rear vision mirror again.
Pull out spiky chin hair you didn’t see before.
Watch owner walk funny looking dog past you.
Make mental note to buy dog food.
Add up in head how much money you spend on animal food a week.
(Weekly purchase: not counting 8kg bag of doggy biscuits)
Try to remember why you bought so many animals.
Check phone to see if any of your kids who failed to come home last night have answered your numerous texts.
Notice there are no replies send more texts. Angrier ones.
Suddenly remember why you bought so many animals.
Jump in excitement when you see husband coming out the door.
Notice in alarm there is nothing in his hands and he is wearing disenchanted expression.
Brace self for another exhilarating wait outside next hardware store.
Try to remember why you bought so many animals.
Check phone to see if any of your kids who failed to come home last night have answered your numerous texts.
Notice there are no replies send more texts. Angrier ones.
Suddenly remember why you bought so many animals.
Jump in excitement when you see husband coming out the door.
Notice in alarm there is nothing in his hands and he is wearing disenchanted expression.
Brace self for another exhilarating wait outside next hardware store.
