Wouldn't you rather have a nice cup of tea?
A simile is a comparison between two things using 'like' or 'as'. Give us your best (or just make up some new ones):
"Making small-talk with Glenn, the department head, was as dull as dried dog shit baking in a Petco parking lot."
"Leo stepped on the accelerator, and the engine growled like an autistic yeti."
"Sarah had a face like an angel if it had flown full speed into a brick wall."
Don't believe everything that you read.
In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun...~The Red Badge Of Courage, Stephen Crane
I tell myself it doesn't matter, your name is like your telephone number, useful only to others; but what I tell myself is wrong, it does matter.~The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
Aaaand proof that I'm a lot of things, but not a writer, as seen (or glimpsed) in Beribboned and Bowed:
The endless softness of her thighs...her skin of a pale translucent nameless colour to put milk to shame.
Want to spend some time wallowing in a Recommended Read? Pick one! Or two! Or seven!