When Did Killing Time Become A Crime?

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When did killing time become a bad thing? Probably when business execs stopped taking a two-martini lunch and started carrying around a cell phone. No time to kill if you’re always tied to the office.

The new hustle economy makes it doubly bad to just goof off.

Not only are you not advancing your “brand”, you’re losing money. Sure, on the plus side, there’s no all-seeing corporate eye watching your every move. But that corporate eye also hands you a steady paycheck. (That is, if eyes had hands — Never mind. Just go with it).

I have three jobs and I can only dream about killing time. I am awake and working, or I am asleep. There is no in-between.

But if I had my ‘druthers, this is what I would do:

• Go to the airport and watch planes take off. It’s impossible not to be awed by the sight of 200 tons of steel launching into the sky with humans inside of it headed for God only knows where. Imagine if you stepped into a time portal in the 1800s and reappeared at Cleveland-Hopkins airport. You wouldn’t even understand what you were seeing. Your brain would explode.
• Go to the zoo. A lot. Sometimes you just want to sit and stare at some giraffes.