#RejectedOlympicEvents

 

A London Underground train decorated to promote London’s Olympic bid. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The hashtag #RejectedOlympicEvents is trending on Twitter.  I thought I’d share a few with you.

• Cheap car park search in London
• Tea brewing. This is London 2012, how it isn’t an event I will never know
• Speed Dating
• Dressage.  I don’t understand it
• Hide and Seek
• Running to and from a Chick Fil-A without being seen by your friends
• Synchronised Knitting
• Synchronised DM conversations; absolutely impossible to achieve
• Twitter, 100 tweet freestyle, 400 meter tweeter
• Opening the microwave in the shortest amount of time left before the bell goes off
• The Hunger Games
• Compulsive Picture Straightening
• Doing something fast before the microwave time finishes
• Quidditch. Stupid muggles
• The Emergency Channel Change When You Discover Two And A Half Men Is On
• Trying to put your key in the front door when drunk
• Women’s Parallel Parking
• Men’s 50 minute putting a 3-4 month old baby down for the night
• Stiff Upper Lip-a-thon
• Seeing which network can go the longest without mentioning Tebow, LeBron or Howard
• Furtive Under-table Texting
• Amount of grocery bags you can bring inside the house from the car in one go
• Worseminton
• The elevator close door button mash
• The Macarena
• Fitted Sheet Folding
• 2am Drunk Texting Your Ex
• 100m sprint for the bus.
• Pin the Smile on Kristen Stewart
• 5m sprint to charge laptop
• Thinking up witty and euphemistic rejected Olympic events when everyone else has already thought up the best ones
• Empty Seat Filling Race.  No Wait! It’s back in!
• Twitter trend jokes

It’s still trending so go have a look for yourself and report back with the best ones.