Inconvenience Yourself Day?

Yesterday was “Inconvenience Yourself Day,” a “holiday” that is celebrated the fourth Wednesday of February. Seriously, I am not making this up.

I wanted to do my weekly guest post yesterday; however the Irritated Tulsan would not let me. He thought it was “Inconvenience Others Day,” which I think he might celebrate everyday of the year? Anyhow, I might be a day late on this topic; nonetheless, I wanted to mention it so that all you might learn how far out of my way I went to celebrate this unknown holiday.

“Inconvenience Yourself Day is an opportunity to focus on inconveniencing ourselves instead of inconveniencing others. It is also a day to recognize and acknowledge those who inconvenience themselves for others.”

To celebrate the holiday I opted to inconvenience myself instead of others in my life. I typically do my best to start the day by having sex with my wife, since I did not want to inconvenience her, I just had sex with myself instead. After my morning shower, which I took by myself as to once again not inconvenience my wife, I dried myself off and got dressed without any assistance from my man servant Gunther. Since I was going out of my to not inconvenience Gunther, I thought I would pack my own lunch rather than having him do it for me.

One of the strangest parts of my day was when I drove myself to work, I gave my chauffeur Geoffry the morning off as to not inconvenience him. Once I made it to work I thought that I might actually do my job rather than have someone else do my work for me. After all, the company does pay me to do my job, I might as well do it for a change. I know what you are thinking, this “inconvenience yourself instead of others” thing sounds rather difficult.

On my way home from work I filled my vehicle up with fuel so as to not inconvenience Geoffrey later with such a laborious task. I felt as though I was getting the hang of this “Inconvenience Yourself Day,” however, deep down I was so glad that I did not have to do all of these things on my own each and every day. Just think about what a drag it would be if I had to be a responsible, considerate, self-reliant individual each and every day of my life. It was a good thing I was only sacrificing my usual conveniences for this one day.

Once I got home from work I had only one matter of business to do before I could bring an end to this holiday, I had to write this story for the Irritated Tulsan and submit it for his review. Yet again as to not inconvenience anyone else I wrote this myself. Typically, I have my four-year-old son or my cat Salem write this stuff for me so that I can then I take all of the credit.

I survived the holiday and have learned that so many things I do each day can be such an inconvenience not only to myself but to others as well.

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