MY STUPID IDEA THAT WORKED

Reddit asked, “What is the dumbest idea you have had that actually worked?” Some of the responses:
– “Trying to catch a mouse, I put an empty Pringles can on the floor against the wall to attempt to scoop him in there, but he got startled and ran along the wall right into the can, which I quickly picked up and brought outside.”
– “A clock at my grandparents’ house was running backward, so I unplugged it, turned the plug 180 degrees, and plugged it back in.”
– “I patched a tire with a toothpick.”
– “I had to email a paper to a professor but hadn’t finished so I sent an email saying please find my paper attached but didn’t attach any. By the time the professor answered with ‘you forgot the attachment’ I had it finished and was able to send it off.”
– “I handed in a ‘book report’ that was actually just an .exe file converted to text and the teacher thought she ‘corrupted’ my file and just gave me a B.”
– “5th or 6th grade, we were supposed to read a book and write an essay about it. The day of the essay comes, still hadn’t read the book. Thought I could just get up early and plow through it. I get up on time and start reading. The book isn’t long, and soon I realize there’s this pattern that every certain number of pages something significant happened in the story. So I only read every X number of pages, finished the book and ended up being the only one in class getting an A for my essay.”
– “I was stationed in a combat zone, and ordered a part from Amazon. It actually arrived.”
– “I had a large lantern than ran on D batteries. It needed four but I only had three. So I crammed a bunch of pennies in the gap for the last battery and it worked!”
– “Trying to sneak out of a building unseen. Heard footsteps in the hallway coming. Threw a paper bag lunch against a wall down the hall that caught the person’s attention enough for me to sneak by unnoticed.”
* PHONE TOPIC: Did you have a dumb idea that ended up working?