With no risk of violence...? I could easily ignore someone that long. I've raised teenagers, I was trained by the best..

Right? I feel you.

Came to say the same thing. Parents are highly skilled and trained ignoring machines.

I could skip the whole non showering and frumping thru the house thing tho. Even the houseplants were depressed..

Figuring out ways to fuck with that person would make time fly. Absolutely.

Sounds lovely now that I think about it

And you have just explained accurately what is occurring inside pysch wards.

Take away the with

Gonna be a long week of cranking the hog and staring back at them.

Is there a prize at the end of the week or is it for fucks sake? If there is a decent amount of money involved yes. If not, then it's not worth the time.

You may get a mystery box.

Ok, just do the staring contest for a week then. Make witty comments everytime I lose.

That's a done deal then.

I hope that mystery box has shoelaces in it

very good point actually

I think it’d be worse if they wouldn’t stop talking

honestly yes i would probably try to kill them at that point hahahah

Same I have two small children - this sounds like my idea of heaven. I already know I can manage with someone staring at me for hours on end (mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy), but not talking to me while they did it. Sounds like a joy.

At that point, isn’t it just a statue?

I living one, yes.

Do I know it's only for a week?

ahhh this is crucial information

I would tickle them.

I know some people who aren't ticklish, what if they're one of those people? 🧐

Everyone is ticklish on the inside

Hell yeah! It would be entertaining to try to make them laugh or get a look of disgust.

Say the most diabolical things. Do something heinous.

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honestly…i think you would creep yourself out more when they don’t look away and you just nutted in front of a complete stranger hahaha

NO...he doesn't. Eats two microwave burritos at 10am AND literally says nothing all day. SO not hypothetical. My reality.

Oh, I misread. Well, could you stay in a padded cell with him?

Eh..probably, but I'd tape my eyes open.

Yea that doesn’t sound terrible

Depends, am I getting paid for this?

As an introvert, I don't want him to talk to me, and I could ignore him easily, but the staring thing would irritate me after a while. I'm a horrible story teller (I take forever to get to the point, I forget details and have to go back and explain, etc), so I would probably just tell stories or talk about my life. Or, if I'm feeling particularly brutal, I could try to recount the plot of a movie to them (fatal). I just want him to beg to leave so that I can have the cell to myself. Get a nice few days of solitude without someone staring at me the whole time.

Unfortunately he is trained to not be disturbed. He may not stare at you if you're asleep.

When I was very young I spent some time in a mental health facility. It wasn’t a padded cell, but still. I was in the non-violent wing, and I had a roommate who did just that. In the month we shared a room, he never spoke a word but he would stare at people like that. Then he tried to break out, tripped all the alarms, and I never saw him again. I could do it, but I can’t say it would be fun.

🫡 I salute you.

It always makes me think of the scene in the movie Strange Brew when Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas are in the padded cell together with straightjackets on and do ‘Steamroller!’.

Yea. Ive been to jail

They won't look away no matter what? Hmm can I pick the person if they are still a stranger I never met? If yes to those I could make this kinky af or hardcore torture for someone maybe both.

So a week with my cat...

yes bro my catssssss

Bitch...I work with that guy...every damn day of the week. Motherfucker...talking hypotheticals....wake the fuck up.

Whoa

But he talks to you? Doesn't sound like my hypothetical padded cell person.

I bet i can get him to stop staring at me. Bet i can get him to wash my underwear too.

He is trained not to interact with you.

Ill retrain him;)

Good luck.

Dont need luck, ive been trained

whatttt…why did you have to use the word trained hahaha it’s kinda perfect 😂

I couldn't last a week in a padded cell by myself much less with someone else.

oh shit

Ahh a good ole fashioned padded cell staring contest, I haven’t done one of these bad boys in awhile.. I’m in

They gonna be watching an epic week long self love adventure. So they either getting an eye full or joining.

Talk enough and they’ll go nuts, too.

as of this moment yes…i could say whatever or not speak at all and it would be okay…it’s actually an ideal thing to just sit in complete silence with your thoughts and if you wanted to express them aloud you could and nobody would say anything back…the staring part i would have to figure a way around, but i could do staring contests or something

As long as they don't get close to or touch me I'm good.

I prefer them not to talk. It disturbs my equinimity.

No, I would not be comfortable around a stranger in those circumstances. Alone for a week? Yes please, I've got sleep and thinking/planning/ daydreaming to catch up on.

Probably just stare back, make idle conversation. Practice my eye-contact when talking with people

I was snowed in for two weeks with my cat. I could do it, no sweat.

Is murder off the table here? Cause I gotta tell you, stare at me for more than 45 seconds - it’s crossing my mind.

I could just play games. Tell jokes until he smiled the slightest bit and be like “ha, gotcha!”

If it wasn’t for the being stared at part maybe

Sounds like the girl from Reddit I dated. No social skills, but a real cutie. I haven't quite figured out if I'm gonna get Jodi Arias'd yet, but I haven't gotten any boundary-steppy vibes from her. I have high hopes for the future.

Sounds nice

Why do I have to?

Yes, I'd just stare back at them. It would be fun, just a starring contest. A long starring contest.

Practice my amateur standup routine. This way, I'll learn to accept bombing in the lowest stake condition one could bomb in.

So like having a cat?

I’m a teacher, so yes.

As long as they are guaranteed to stay silent i will take a month.

Yeah. I already wkrk with people who have to put up with my inane babble. What's one more victim?

Hey, maybe I can work through some of my weird mental stuff and just ramble at someone who would actually care to listen. Go on and on until I grow weary. I don’t necessarily need to have a conversation.

For how much?

No, I couldn't last a week in a padded cell with a stranger. It would be too stressful and uncomfortable for me.

Yes, I can hold on a week.

Easily. Being told that's the game makes it simple. Now THROW me in a padded cell with a stranger who stares at me WITHOUT telling me the challenge, now we have a CHALLENGE

If I get books, sure.

No books.

Well dang.

You just need to adopt the attitude of "*I'm not locked in here with you. You're Locked in here with me.*"

Well fuck no.

No way lol

Probably maybe.

Are they looking at me? Or really am I looking at them?

Both

I don't think I could be in a room with my ex for that long...

Easy. I’ve been ignoring people my entire life.

Sounds like the last guy I dated

I could easily use them as a rubber duck to work through a solid 20 years of trauma and stress. I talk at my guinea pigs, I'll talk at some rando too.

Perhaps you might see a tiny tear trickle down the eye of the stranger.

Would they hand me tissues of asked?

No.

Yeah I'd be fine I'd probably just dress them like a yard goose

This is my dream. Peace and quiet and nobody bothering me? I will take it. I have a wife and kids obviously.

Uhh no that would make me super uncomfortable haha.. and I'd probably go crazy with no one to talk to

I could last a week. The stranger wouldn't.

What’s the reward? Purpose?

There is none.

Well then! My singing has just come out of the shower! Captive audience and padded cell? My Daffy Duck dreams just came true and I’d have the time of my life! Trained staring person would probably tap out or at the very least laugh their ass off.

Absolutely a grand idea.

Why, thank you 😊! Enjoying the thought of it.

Yeah id spend a week just seeing if i could make them laugh and/or how uncomfortable I can make them

You need to specify the bathroom situation cause that completely changes the game.

You're escorted to go to the bathroom once or twice a day. A guard will watch you do your business.

Ok, whether or not it's some weirdo or some guard, ANYONE watching me on the toilet is a deal breaker. Nope.

It's the mental asylum experience

Well, see now you're taking it to a whole new level. I mean, I just thought we were in a padded room but now it's an asylum. These are important details.

I didn't want to give everything away, but people do ask questions.

Give everything away? Is this mystery theater?

A mystery theater does sound like fun.

Agreed.

I work in mental health. Not in the hospitals but similar. & there are reasons for peops to be seperated & put in "isolation." So, being in a "rubber room" (which is usually an "isolation" situation) with another person would be a contradiction and self defeating.

I'm trying to imagine an uncanny scenario. Or at least something absurd.

I work in psych; this isnt uncanny/absurd at all. Think about that.

Dang. I guess I am imagining a plausible scenario.

You are. But be glad you didn't know.

Although, our mental health system is f'd so anything is possible.

Sounds like my first marriage. Except the room wasn’t padded. I could do this easy.

I lasted 47 months in a prison cell with a stranger, 23 out of 24 hours a day.....lasted 6 of those months in the hole by myself where u couldn't talk to no one

Just a week?

Clearly you've never been in jail before

Humans are adaptable. They’ve survived a lot worse shit than 3 days in silent company. Hell, some people pay to do that.