Reddit, what's your top "Holy crap, that worked?"
moment?
Had a laptop slide backwards off my lap, hit
the floor and stop working.
Showed me an error screen and wouldn’t start
back up.
Decided to turn it over and drop it from the
same height onto its opposite side (why not,
it’s already broken right?) and it started
working again.
Your reasoning was that something was knocked
out of place and turning it over and dropping
it would push it back into place.
Nice, I am glad it worked for you.
One time a bird got caught in our chimney
and while me and my roommate discussing how
to get it out he suggested we stick our hand
up there and the bird will just land on our
finger.
I laughed at him and said it would never work....
within 30 seconds he was walking to the door
with a bird perched on his pointer finger.
Had the infamous "red rings of death" for
an old xbox 360 at one point.
Called up a buddy, he told me to turn it off,
hold it about a foot and a half above the
floor, and just drop it.
I figured that I couldn't make it much worse,
so I dropped it.
Worked perfectly ever since.
i have a verizon center STAFF lanyard that
a buddy gave to me from some concert 10 or
12 years ago.
it literally says nothing but "verizon center"
and "STAFF."
white letters on a black background, and then
has a small bar code and some illegible jibberish
on the other side.
it could be entirely fake, as i've never seen
anyone else use one like it.
so far, 3 free concerts and one free NBA game.
half-afraid to keep using it, especially since
the arena changed its name.
i can't get anyone else in with it, so while
i can literally go anywhere, i have to do
it alone, which is much less fun.
Let me know how that works at the Capital
One Arena
In school, I belatedly realised I had an essay
due the next day, which I simply didn’t
have the time to do.
What I did have time to do was write slightly
more than a page.
I then printed only the first, full page,
and handed this in, inside a plastic wallet.
I then finished the essay at home that night.
So, the next day, when my teacher grabs me
in the corridor and says “You realise you
only have me the first page of your essay,
right?”, I was able to say “Oh, shoot,
the rest must have fallen out or something.
I’ll go print it out right now and bring
it to your office.”
My friend and I had driven out into the woods
to a small fishing hole on a creek in the
mountains (about 30km away from town).
fricking idiot I am locks the keys in my pickup.
We had a case of beer in the back of the truck,
so we both chugged a few, and I cut the cans
and folded them into a long thin, slim-jim
type tool and unlocked the truck first try.
after reading this, I immediately wished I
was there with you just to experience this
"holy crap" moment
When I got promoted at work it came with a
small bump in pay.
I asked for a slightly bigger bump, and was
then given even more than I asked for.
The best, and quite often only, way to get
a payrise at work is to simply ask for one.
Worst that happens is they say no.
Halloween party during college and everyone
is starting to pass out except this very inebriated
girl who just won't shut up about wanting
someone to turn off the light.
I pulled the sleeping bag over her face and
said "click".
She said "thank you" and went to sleep.
My friend and I looked at each other amazing
that it actually worked.
and then she suffocated and died.
Click!
I had a test coming up and, needless to say,
I didn't want to take it.
So, nine year-old me decides to jump out of
a tree and fake being hurt.
I didn't go to school for the next two days.
I realize now that I could've just said that
I fell out of a tree, I didn't have to actually
do it.
Some method acting level crap
Moved offices at work.
Tried “Admin/Password” on the new router
login page
Who has two thumbs and higher bandwidth?
THIS GUY
This makes me irrationally angry.
Applied for a job at a french fry factory.
The online application asked what makes you
want to work for us?
I simply put "Potatoes are my favorite food".
HR lady and engineering manager loved it,
been working there 10 months now.
I guessed someone's WiFi password
I think Equifax would like to have a word
with you
In high school, I told a girl who was way
out of my league, "You should give me your
number."
She asked, "Why would I do that?"
I said, "Because if I just dial randomly,
it will take forever to call you..."
Waited to be shot down.
But she laughed...and gave it to me!
We were together for seven years.
When I try it:
"You should give me your number,"
"No..."
"Because if I- oh..."
Just did an oil change on one of my cars using
amsoil and realized my friend who put the
drain bolt back in didn't replace the crush
washer.
I didn't want to drain the oil back into containers
because of my fear of contaminating it.
We decided to grab the shop vac and hold it
to the fill hole.
Turned it on and I removed the drain bolt
expecting the atmospheric pressure to either
hold the oil in or end up with it in my face.
The oil stayed in place like it was being
blocked by a force field.
Replaced the crush washer and put the bolt
back in without losing a drop.
A guy we'll call Bob left the company I was
at.
A year or two later he started recruiting
people from our company, I was interested
so I flew out for an interview.
First five interviews went great.
Seemed like a good group to work with.
The final interview was with the HR director.
It went okay and then we got to the pay part.
I said I wanted X amount.
She said the average pay for my experience
and position was X - 20k.
My response was "Bob didn't fly me out here
because I'm average,"
I have no idea why I said that, but I got
the job and the pay I wanted.
Months later when we were getting drinks Bob
brought that up.
Apparently HR director thought I was very
quiet and introverted from our interview so
my response caught her even more off guard
than it caught me.
That's actually a pretty brilliant response.
And you're right - Bob wouldn't have flown
you out if you were average.
Used an electric palm sander to clean the
soap scum out of my tub.
Put a sponge right on the bottom and turned
that bad boy on.
I thought my tub was just naturally eggshell
color, nope.
It's pure white.
When I was younger I was into magic and thought
I invented a magic trick that used subliminal
messaging to get someone to pick a card.
I secretly turned the two of hearts over in
the deck, and handed it to the kid my mom
was watching.
I asked my mom to name any card, then I said
to the kid:
"You **too**, [name of kid], whatever card
is in your **heart**."
Trying to get him to say the two of hearts.
To my disbelief he actually said the two of
fricking hearts.
I didn't touch the deck for the entire trick
and told him to go through it and he saw his
selection turned over.
I was in just as much amazement as he was.
Me and heavily pregnant wife on a really hot,
stuffy train a few weeks ago.
For some reason, the heaters were on full
blast.
I asked the ticket inspector if he can get
them turned off, but he said their was nothing
he could do (read: couldn't be arsed to look
into it.)
As a longshot, I tweeted at the train line
in question, explaining the situation.
They tweeted back saying they'd get in touch
with the driver...
not two minutes after sending the tweet, and
we hear the satisfying power-down noise of
all the train's heaters.
I'd just used the tiny slab in my pocket to
manipulate the environment around me with
what felt like magic.
What a time to be alive.
A very confused patient was fighting me when
I was trying to give him IV antibiotics.
"YOU'RE GOING TO KILL ME, WHAT IS MY FAMILY
GOING TO DO IF YOU KILL ME?!" he wailed while
pointing at his adult son.
"If I kill you, they can sue me and the hospital
and be rich," I said.
The man just kinda made an "oh yeah" kind
of mumble and let me hook him up to the IV.
His son was trying so hard not to laugh!
A few years ago i was drunk and set the personal
ringtone of a girl i liked to sixpence none
the richer - kiss me.
No idea what i was thinking while doing that.
After a night out partying we hung out together
and i told her to call me on my cellphone.
We kissed.
It was incredibly cheesy and i cringed over
myself, but somehow it worked.
This is some movie level crap right here.
Back when I was 8 or something I was waiting
for my parents to pick me up after a movie
in the winter time.
There was a hill of freshly plowed snow I
was *dying* to play in, but I knew the minute
I went over there, my parents would show up
to come get me.
But as the wait dragged on, I started to get
cold and really wanted them to come get me.
So I figured to myself, *'well, if the minute
I hope into that snow pile they'll be here,
and I want them to be here, I guess I should
hop in.'* Lo and behold, within 3 minutes
of me hopping into that snow pile, the car
showed up.
That moment has stuck with me for the rest
of my life.
To this day, whenever I want something to
happen that I'm waiting for - a friend to
come over, a parcel to arrive, etc - I just
start to do that thing I've been putting off
because I don't want to get interrupted and
like magic it makes the thing I'm waiting
for happen within 10 minutes.
Happened on Saturday actually.
Was waiting for a friend to show up so we
could go to a thing and after I got impatient
with the wait, I figured, 'I'm goign to boot
up a video game.
That'll make him get here.'
No sooner had I loaded into the game, then
my doorbell rings.
Like a charm.
Haha.
Me and my friends started noticing that happening
when we were waiting for a bus and someone
would light up a cigarette.
Within two drags/draw on the smoke the bus
would show up, lol
Once upon a time in Iraq my tank's fire control
system fricked up - we couldn't shoot stuff.
The mechanic did some troubleshooting, busted
out a can of soda, tore off the little piece
of aluminum that gets punched in when you
crack it open, and wedged the aluminum piece
into some electrical component in the tank.
The guns started working again.
Applied for some university thing that took
off 14k from my loans....just a simple form,
it was newly implemented and I thought it
was too easy to be true.
Just like winning the lottery
This is basically the millennial version of
a fairy tale.
The lens in our laser machine wasn't working
so well, producing a distorted image.
It's symmetrical so I asked what if we flipped
it around?
And it worked!
Who knew lenses were like underwear?
Walked into an interview, just told them about
stuff I did at work embellishing much of it
and mentioning lessons I learned watching
my boss as if they were principles I followed
in life and they offered me a white collar
job with a wage higher than the national average
and an absolute crap ton of flexibility.
It’s crazy what you can do with confidence
Before boarding a recent flight back from
New York, I got called up to the gate wth
my friend for a passport check.
I was a little drunk and feeling quite bold
so upon approaching the desk, I said to the
gate agent, “We’re very attractive, can
you upgrade us to business class?”.
And she did!
Definitely gonna be tying this again.
Not me but my uncle...
Back in the 70's he created a group in high
school with 10 of his buddies called the Maple
Leaf Work Club.
Every Friday during the morning announcement
on the intercom , the school principal was
inviting every member of the Maple Leaf Work
Club to meet at 2 pm at the usual classroom.
The usual classroom was the bar next door.....
they did this for 4 years.
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