Do you know you are a Multi-Tasker?
By Ksm

These days, if you are not multi-tasking, you are a Yawn. As alive as a dead rat that never existed anyway. Well, it’s time to take the multi-taskers to task and tell them, we, the Generation Ex have been doing it ever since we were wrapped up in a nappy! In fact, we Indians have been multi-tasking for centuries! Chances are you are doing it right now, as you are reading this. See, you are picking your nose and – confess it, you are enjoying it, you are shaking your legs, and well before you finish reading this, I can assure you that you will be dozing off too!
 
One of Mankind’s (womankind too) most widely chosen task in this business of multi-tasking is, you guessed it, nose picking. According to the World Nose Pickers Association ®, there’s a long history behind it (not behind the nose, silly, but behind nose picking). Legend has it that Adam stumbled on this art form when he was nosing around while Eve had gone out to check her email. Not having anything to do (there were no cell phones to fool around with then), Adam accidentally put his finger into his nose and lo! He was startled to find that he actually enjoyed it! From then on, it became a favorite pastime of his, whenever Eve went out to check her email.  

According to wikipedia, nose picking was a major sport in Olympics till the third century B.C, but was abruptly abandoned after that. Despite the CIA’s best efforts and America pouring trillions of dollars into investigating this mystery (they suspected that Al Qaeda was smuggling snuff into people’s nose which would drug the users and thus make it easier for them to convert them to their cause), their efforts proved fruitless.  

The real reason why it was abandoned was because the match referees at the Olympics failed to announce the winner of the nose picking contest, because they were themselves busy picking their noses (their own, not the players’). In course of time, nose picking got a bad name for some unknown reason, and people started to look down upon it. But the very people who looked down upon it used to vigorously indulge in it in the privacy of their room, and while doing other important tasks! Today, it would not be wrong to say that nose picking is the world’s oldest and the only amateur sport that is played in private.  

Scratch your head and you will discover many more such wonderfully simple tasks to combine with other complex tasks, and thus join the multi-tasking gang. How about barfing? It’s also fun, easy (good for health!), and irresistible too (most of the time!). Like nose picking, it is better done in privacy, but unlike it, it can be put to devastating effect when done in public. Suppose you have a boss you hate and want to really give it to him, you can do it literally! You can “barf” him!! Each time you have a meeting with him, pass on the word discreetly to your colleagues that the boss suffers from gas, and then promptly let out a noiseless but nevertheless powerful barf! Do it a couple of times, and your boss’s reputation will be lower than your barf’s!  
You can even invent new tasks that are simultaneously combinable with other major tasks, such as, making faces in front of your mirror, while combing your hair (but don’t put off the light and scare yourself), and playing blindfold before the TV (it’s a great way to watch those never changing soaps).