How is it that in every short break the day offers us, we immediately look at our phones and get distracted? Have we perhaps simply become too lazy to do nothing? Horst Evers explores this question through short, very funny stories from the here and now. He encounters cats that receive his packages, toasters that plan our future, and nuns who explain artificial intelligence to him. He shares tales from his time as a band bassist, his encounter with Steven Spielberg, and the loudest traffic calming in the world. And not only while he admires construction workers as they professionally and persistently peer into a hole in the ground, he wonders: "Shouldn't we rather use our time for open-ended doing nothing instead of doing nothing of importance in every free second?" With a lot of humor, surprising twists, warmth, and genuinely grounded optimism, Horst Evers takes us on a journey through our strange present. In stories that offer not a single piece of advice, but still, or perhaps precisely for that reason, help.