Unemployment. The Most Fun You Will Ever Have Without A Job

With so many people unemployed these days due to our terrible economy, it is funny how people start to pass their idle time.

First we have the snuggie pub crawl. The Snuggie™—that adawable bwanket with sweeves that's basically a hoodless monk's cowl with a trademark. With the Snuggie™, your hands are free to work a remote control, massage your lover's feet, or pound Jäger in public.



New York's FIRST Snuggie Pub Crawl is in the works, and already over 50 Snuggie™ enthusiasts have signed up! The date is still T.B.D., but the vision of a mob of pseudo-ironic drunks stumbling around in their creepy Snuggies™ makes the ritual orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut seem somehow comforting by comparison. And while we don't want to contemplate what a drunken Snuggie™ hook-up would look like, now we can't help ourselves!

Second we have the Unemployment Olympics held this week in New York City. The lighthearted competition was only open to the unemployed, and included a such games as 'Pin the Blame on the Boss' and 'Office Telephone Toss'.

Christopher Dawes tosses an office phone during the Unemployment Olympics in New York, Tuesday, March 31, 2009.



A participant in the Unemployment Olympics wearing a Lehman Brothers shirt, tries to find the boss in the game 'Pin the Blame on the Boss' in New York.



People sign up for the Unemployment Olympics in New York.



There are so many things you can do when unemployed in New York. What me and mom like to do most is act like tourists, go to museums, spend time with our friends and family, ice skate in the early afternoon, see movies with friends in the early afternoon, walking in Central Park, walking up and down Madison Avenue with your best clothes on visualizing a better future.

We here at the PPP are into taking a bad situation and making the best of it and that includes unemployment. So if you find yourself suddenly unemployed, relax, have a drink, go get a massage, go see a comedy, sleep late, watch Maury Povich and enjoy the downtime because trust me it's not going to last. Believe me when I say your former colleagues who are still employed and doing the work of many with a pay cut are very envious of you now. Take it from one who's been there. Chow for now!