MindSpinner

Spread newspaper on table. Find good short paring knife and the first of several required bowls. Place laptop beside newspaper and turn on NPR because snapping an entire bucket of beans will take a while and could get a little dull. (After checking a bean for spots, it is possible to read a sentence or two online while breaking it.)
Grab a couple of handfuls of beans and put them on the newspaper beside bowl.
Trim each end off bean and snap beans into 1″ pieces.
Put Orange Stripey Dude down off the table.
Trim beans and snap.
Put Orange Stripey Dude down off the table.
Trim beans and snap. Grab another handful of beans from bucket.
Put Orange Stripey Dude down off the table.
Trim beans and snap. Hold Orange Stripey Dude for a few minutes and scratch under his chin before putting him back on the floor.
Trim beans and snap. Grab another handful of beans from bucket.
Put Orange Stripey Dude down off the table and give him his very own bean to play with.

Who knew how much fun a grean bean could be? Not me. Sounds of chasing and batting come from under the table.

Trim beans and snap. Get another bowl. Note that Orange Stripey Dude has grown weary at last and is falling asleep, lying with his back against the refrigerator, his left front paw resting atop his green bean.