How do you "stretch the rules" so to speak in your everyday life?

I’m supposed to look professional and put together at work, but I don’t always do my hair. (The whole process takes too long, and I’m tired in the morning.) Instead, I get one of those big clips and pull my hair up. I think it looks good, and I have yet to get a complaint, but when I don’t do my hair I feel a bit naughty, as if I am getting away with something. Like today.

I can bullshit like a pro on papers I write. For my final paper in my media history class, I went on autopilot and by the end of the paper, I had basically proved that any sex education obtained online leads to addiction to rape pornography. I don’t actually believe this nor do I believe half the stuff I write in papers. I always feel guilty when I hand in something like that to a professor. I feel even more guilty when I end up getting a good grade on the paper.

I drive without insurance, and my tags are expired. I drive down little roads that cops would be too bored to sit on, and make as many right turns as I can.

I’d say I’m pushing my luck, as well as that envelope you have thar.

I wear nice, plain looking t-shirts. I’m not supposed to in case I have to go to a place that has a strict dress code, but when that happens I just toss on a suit jacket and you can’t tell.

I speed when I drive. Always about 9 miles per hour over the limit, 10 miles over being the usual factor in getting a ticket.

You got the jammies, and I’m wearing slippers!!

I make money by providing “security” to different convenience stores, bakeries, and mom-and-pop restaurants.

I wore a Santa hat to school from the week after Thanksgiving, to Christmas break. No hats allowed in school. Only one sub got onto me, and one teacher told me not to wear it on the last day… Which was weird because he didn’t care before that. I put that hat back on as soon as I left his class, and I never took it off for the sub. Saw all assistant principles and the principle. Even talked to the principle (I wasn’t in trouble, I just told him I liked his tie! . Haha!)

Technically that’s not an every day basis, but I thought it was good.

Maybe a Santa hat overheats the brain, which is why the principal and assistant principals don’t wear them. In principle it’s a good idea to pick your fights.

You can push the envelope as much as you want, but at the end of the day, its still stationary.

@Squirbel, I so appreciate your sharing that… I’ve got expired tags too! I have been driving in fear lately. They expired recently, and I’m just about to sell my car next week. I’m skating by until I do. Fingers crossed. Good to know I’m not alone!!!!!

I have red wine with fish…and I wore white after Labor Day.

@Knot: Rebel.

Knot; not with that outfit, I hope.

i come late to work (a little late like 10 minutes) i take long lunch hours (like an hour and a half) i drive over the speed limit. at work we’re not supposed to wear sweat clothes but i wear sweat jackets over my regular sweater or shirt, to keep warm and nobody seems to care. at work, since i’m a good typist and write well, i can do bullshit the majority of the day and do a lot of work in a short amount of time.

@jca: I have a friend who used to do something like that. She used to work for the phone company and she would request graveyard shifts where she was alone. She could do 8 hours of work in 4 or 5 hours and then take the rest of the time off. If other people were around, though, she would have to work slowly otherwise she wouldn’t get paid for 8 hours of work.

I do fluther about six hours a day from work. I let my daughter register for Facebook (since her closest friends are on it) and none of them are older than 13, the minimum age. My daughter will be 13 in June.

I’m here even tho at the meeting we were told no more internet during work hours!!

Damn the suits! Fluther on.