25 things to do when you’re bored at a party
Photograph a stranger’s hands.
Notice who’s making eye contact and who’s avoiding it.
Compliment a stranger on something oddly specific.
Ask someone what the best thing that happened to them this week was.
Write down 5 overheard sentences without context.
Ask a stranger what they’d name a boat if they had one.
Find the quietest person in the room. Observe them for 5 minutes.
Ask someone what they were like at 5 years old.
Find someone scrolling. Guess what they’re feeling. Write it down.
Write a single sentence about each person in the room, starting with “They seem like…”
Ask someone: “What made you cry recently?”
Ask a stranger to write down one sentence they want to remember forever. Photograph the paper.
Ask someone to show you an object they carry every day. Document it like a relic.
Ask someone what their mom always says. Use it as a poem title.
Ask someone what their hands know how to do.
Compliment someone on the way they move. Watch what it does to them.
Ask someone who they’d leave with if they could only pick one person in the room. Don’t let them say “I don’t know.”
Ask someone what they almost wore tonight. Why not?
Wave at a stranger.
Ask someone what they think you do for a living.
Ask someone what they think your name is.
Tell a stranger, “You’re the main character tonight.” Then walk away.
Walk up to someone and say, “You have no idea what you’re capable of.” Then smile and leave.
Draw someone without looking at the paper. Show them.
Write a line of a poem on a napkin. Pass it to someone and tell them to write the next line.
