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I enjoy watching Seinfeld and since it’s pretty much always on, this is not hard to do. While working out this morning I was thinking about all the crazy antics they do (I think about a lot of weird stuff while working out) and if they really work or not. Think about on, on the show they are relatively normal people and hilarious, ironic things always seem to happen to them. Is this just the function of good writing? Yes, Larry David is a genius (he takes this similar formula to a new level on Curb Your Enthusiasm) but a lot of it is based on experience. How does one gain these experiences (specifically George’s since I find his some of the best and also since they are the most based on Larry David)? Thats what I’m trying to figure out.

Some may be easier than others since they are more social experiments; like where George gets the idea that women are more attracted to married men and starts wearing a wedding ring around. Others can be a little harder, like getting into a fight with a boy in a bubble over trivial pursuit or killing your fiance by licking envelopes.

I’m hoping to construct a list of things I can do to live like George (outside of getting fat and bald). Here are a couple of things that wouldn’t be too tough:

-Leave my car at work so it looks like I’m the first to arrive and last to leave, always

-Turn the area under my desk into a little bed for sleeping

-Always look frustrated and angry while at my computer at work so people think I’m busy and won’t assign more work

-Wear a wedding ring out and see if it makes me more attractive to women (April has already instructed me not to do this)

-Take a book off the shelf into the bookstore bathroom and try to put it back on the shelf (gross but you know, its the best place to read, I’ll try to do it with a crappy book no one should read or buy anyway like “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin)

Thats all I’ve got for now. I’m looking for suggestions on this and obviously my readers will be the first to know if I succeed in any of these endeavors (or even if I don’t succeed, I’ll still write about it) .

The wikipedia article on George Costanza was a big help in the creation of this post.

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