A young girl is bored, until she meets a potato who declares that it is children who are boring.

A little boy is bored, until he asks himself why, which leads him into some surprising adventures.

Frankie and Sal, who decide that they have “done it all,” try to think of what’s left to do. Then a brilliant idea emerges. Frankie exclaims, “Let’s do nothing!” All throughout the day, Frankie and Sal try to do nothing, but actually, doing nothing appears to be a lot harder than they had imagined. Can they really ever do nothing?

Barnacle is bored – every day seems the same. He years for something exciting to happen. When it does, he discovers that exciting isn’t always better.

Milo is bored with everything. He doesn’t “know what to do with himself – not just sometimes, but always.” He thinks that everything is a waste of time. So when a tollbooth appeared in his room, because “there was nothing else he wanted to play with,” he drove through it. His experiences change his perspective about the world.