Sometimes, it’s so fascinating to think and see people who are just so clever. They tend to do extraordinarily witty things that make their lives easier. However, some are just unethical.
Well, these people believe that they are just doing their best to make things convenient for them by cheating the system and turning struggles into basic encounters.
1. Transforming Personalities
So I work in the luggage claim department for a major airline. All day, I get to hear customers yelling and complaining. What I did was borrow one of the wheelchairs from the airport and sit behind my desk all day long.
Customers come in all angry, see me in the wheelchair, realize they are about to yell at a guy who is possibly crippled, and all of a sudden, they turn into the nicest people.
Physically, my blood pressure has dropped, and I'm generally in a pretty good mood most of the time. It’s so good to be treated right.
greyham0707
2. Camera Hack
I used to work in a camera store that sold warranties. No matter how the camera broke, they would fix it or replace it under the warranty.
The only problem was that the store would ship off the camera to be repaired, sometimes for months, up to five times before replacing it.
So, let's say your battery cover breaks off. You ship it off, and six weeks later, it's back. But it's a brand defect, so the cover pops off again.
They won't replace the whole piece or give you another camera. You're out of the camera for months while it's being fixed. They keep selling the defective camera and the warranties.
I got tired of messing over customers. I thought it was dishonest. I read the contract myself and found an interesting clause.
If the camera was so physically damaged that it was obvious it couldn't be fixed, we could take a pic of it and send that instead. The person immediately got a new camera.
When people would come in with a camera with a defect I'd seen 100 times, I'd ask if they just wanted a new one (the next model up, without the defect).
They'd say yes, and I'd tell them to take it out into the parking lot and run over it in their car. I'd pile the pieces on the counter, take a pic, and give them their new, non-defective camera. I slept fine.
AustinTreeLover
3. Free Drink
When I was a teenager, I worked at a fast food chain where the beverages were self-serve. We just sold you the cup. Yeah, it happened.
Once, on a prolonged day when I was the only one at the registers, an older man walked in with an empty gallon of milk cartons.
He walked over to the Coke dispenser and started to fill. It took a full minute or two, and he actually looked over at me once, where I was watching him utterly fascinated. When he was done, he put the little cap back on, nodded to me, and then walked back out to his car.
teeth_cheese
4. Real Money
When I was in college, I had this meal plan where the school essentially took my "actual money" and turned it into "campus dollars" that could only be spent at school dining halls and cafes.
I didn't mind so much until the end of the semester when I was informed that any unspent "campus dollars" would "go away." I had more than a hundred bucks left and only a day to spend them. Here's what I did.
I went to the nicest campus restaurant- where you're supposed to take your parents when they visit. A real restaurant with waitstaff that also happened to take "campus dollars."
I got the most expensive thing on the menu and called the waiter over. I asked if I could tip him in "campus dollars," and he said yes. I asked him if he would have immediate access to those "campus dollars" in the form of "actual money," and he said yes.
So, I made him a deal. I gave him a monster tip, and he gave me half of it back in "actual money." Many years later, I am still proud of this. I made a server's day, screwed the Man, and got my money back.
superkiy
5. Online Reward
When I was a (precociously computer savvy) 10-11-year-old, I found a website that parents could set up as a reward system for children doing chores.
The parent would set up an account listing several chores and assign them point values. After completing these chores, the child could use the points to buy various items on the website. There was (somehow) no charge for any of the stuff.
So, I created two e-mail accounts and two passwords on the site and set up a really generous reward system where I got tons of points for doing imaginary chores.
I used this to "buy" loads of Pokemon cards. I then played with my Grandpa because I didn't actually have any friends. Sigh.
waningwax
6. Parking Trick
At my university, they have parking passes, which are priced depending on the time of day you use them. The most expensive is 24 hours, and the rest scale down in price in the level of most trafficked to least.
The parking garages are also open to the public at a daily rate. A lot of my friends bought the cheapest pass with the most constricting hours (I think they can only use them after 4 pm).
So they come in the morning and take a ticket as if they're going to use the daily rate, and then they swipe out with their garage pass at the end of the day.
arksien
7. Modifying Modifier
My boss will often check the "Date Modified" on certain files on our server to see if I have updated or even opened a specific file recently.
So, I have installed a changer utility that allows me to modify the "Date Modified" on any file. This comes in handy when my boss wants to give me weekend assignments.
I just came in on Monday Morning and changed the "Date Modified" to Saturday night, and he thinks I was actually doing something for work on Saturday night! I've actually received a lot of kudos for this. I don't feel bad, though, because my boss is a huge jerk.
amitrippin
8. Free Pay
When I quit a job over a decade ago, my ass of a boss forgot to submit my termination form. I kept getting paid for over three months. And I was a manager, making pretty good coin.
I knew they'd eventually catch it, and I thought they'd ask for the money back, so I banked every check and didn't spend a cent.
So the paychecks eventually stopped after 3+ months, and I waited for the call or letter asking for the money. It never came.
Two years later, I used the money to buy my hot tub. Now, my body gets massaged by bubbling water, thanks to my incompetent ex-boss.
Beyond_Re-Animator
9. Unlimited Tickets
The college I commuted to didn't have enough parking for the commuters, but it had roughly ten times the amount needed for the residents.
One day, I was forced to park in the resident parking lot and get a ticket.
Every day, I had to park there, slip the ticket under my windshield wiper, and walk into class.
The cars around me would get tickets, but they'd just leave the old one on my windshield, figuring they already got me. I never even paid for it.
Funkenwagnels
10. Mashed Potato Award
I used to work at a restaurant that would track our tip percentage, but not too much else of our activity. The amount of tables we got per night would be based on our tip percentage, and there was also a regional leaderboard.
We were allowed to buy food from the restaurant, but we couldn't ring ourselves in, which led my friend Jim and me to our greatest discovery.
We would buy a side of mashed potatoes from each other, a $2.00ish side, and pay with a credit card. We would then tip each other 10-12 dollars, a 500-600% tip.
We would do this every so often, not enough to be ridiculous, and within a few months, we were the top servers in the entire region, with an average tip percentage of over 30%, thereby granting us some kind words from management and the most tables per night of the whole restaurant.
machpe
11. Low Price
A pizza shop offers an unadvertised (maybe unofficial) deal where pizzas that were ordered but never picked up are sold for $5 just before closing.
Size and toppings don't affect the $5 price, so my friends and I used to order family-sized meat lovers pizzas and opt to 'pay-at-pickup,' but we never showed up.
We would wait till closing, pop our heads in, and ask if there were any leftover pizzas on the rack for sale, thus getting our huge pizzas for $5.
duckmania
12. Getting Coupons
Back in high school, I discovered that if you call any "Questions/Comments" number on a food product, you could make up literally anything and get a coupon for a free item, whatever it was.
So, for instance, we'd call a pancake mix company and say we bought a jar of mix, but inside, we found three already-made pancakes... crap like that, just nonsensical stuff.
We did it so much that we'd pile up the coupons, go to the grocery store, check out a full cart of groceries, and just hand the cashier a stack of these coupons and not pay a cent for hundreds of dollars worth of groceries.
We did that multiple times, and eventually, the big companies caught on, and you had to use different names and addresses.
I'll never forget the exasperation of the poor person on the other end of the line when I told them the chicken patties I bought just get more frozen every time I put them in the microwave. "The kids are outside playing hockey with the freaking thing right now. This is crap!"
[deleted]
13. Give What I Deserve
A professor in my 2nd college refused to grant me the credits for work I'd done in my previous school. She was supposed to, but because she was a bigwig of sorts, no one challenged her on my behalf.
My diploma was withheld on graduation day. The secretary smugly told me the dean was too busy to speak with me and that I was out of luck. Now, I knew he was always on the office phone attached to the fax, so I took advantage of that.
I went home and found all my original papers (70 or 80-ish), and the moment his line went free, I began faxing them. Papers. One after the other, a never-ending stream of documents.
After sending the 40th or so paper, my mom's phone rang. Picked it up, and the secretary was almost in a panic. She said I was "tying up the line," the dean approved my papers— and, "He said, can you just please stop and come get your diploma?" Which I did. On my graduation day.
Random_Fandom
14. Balance Cheat
My university used to have a debit card system for vending machines on campus. Your Uni ID would act as your debit card, and you could swipe them at vending machines to buy snacks.
My friends and I found out that the system could be gamed.
If you only had $1.50 in your account (also the price of a 20 oz soda), you could swipe your ID at multiple vending machines that were next to each other and then select various drinks/food from the machines and only get charged $1.50.
The glitch was that the account balance could never be a negative number, so if you got charged $1.50 five times at the same time and only had $1.50 in the account, your account would end up with a $0.00 balance.
[deleted]
15. Free Premium For Life
One of the best cheats ever. Know how they have the three-month free premium channel thing when you switch TV providers?
You can get that without switching by calling up your provider, asking to speak to a supervisor, and spinning a yarn about how you're unsure since a company will offer you the premium channels.
The supervisor's job is to ensure customer satisfaction, and they get in trouble if people leave the service under their watch; as such, you will often get a price cut or free premium service.
friendliest_giant
16. Producing Tickets
When I was in college, there was a pay-by-the-hour parking lot right next to the College of Business. (Accounting major) The university charged $1.00/hour to use the parking lot, or you could park 2 miles away, wait for a bus, and then ride it to and from campus.
Being the savvy business student I was, I would park in the pay lot every year at the beginning of the fall semester, buy a ticket, and then run home and enter it into a spreadsheet.
I'd record the first day of classes as day 1 in the first field and then enter the ticket number I received that day in a separate field.
Needless to say, after three weeks, I would have a strong enough amount of data to plot a line of best fit (using simple algebra that I had learned in college) and be able to predict a ticket number for any given day.
I'd then scan a ticket into my school laptop and use Photoshop to edit the date, time, and ticket number. Printed that out, stuck it in my window, and cashed in on free parking.
Sure, it was a bit dangerous, but it saved me a ton of time and money. Plus, if I was ever caught, my argument was to explain that I used the skills that the university had taught me in my courses to take advantage of a flawed system.
My ethics teacher would have been pissed if he found out, but I know my management and econ professors would have been proud. Oops!
Exon
17. Hacking Credit
Got a negative removed from my credit report. Once you have a negative on your report, it stays on for seven years (there are exceptions).
Write a letter to all three agencies telling them that the negative is a mistake and that by law, they must investigate it and provide proof of their investigation within 30 days.
You can send these letters every 30 days as well, and they must investigate it each time. The agencies don't have the resources to investigate each claim, so they often just remove it.
When I wrote my letters, the first two agencies removed the negative the first time; the other agency did the investigation and responded by saying that it was accurate.
I sent the same letter a month later, and they dropped it off at that time. You should use old-fashioned snail mail as it is more difficult to process that way. Worked like a charm, and now I have a perfect credit history!
unclechett
18. Limitless Points
On my iPhone, there is a particular app that awards "M Points" whenever you do certain things in the app; the first time you open it each day, when you watch one of the news stories, that kind of thing.
Well, you could trade those M points later for tons of things, including Amazon gift cards. 5k M points was a $5 Amazon gift card. Watching a 10-minute video was worth (in the beginning) about 300 M points.
The trick was to drag the bar to the end of the video and still trigger the M points. You could make about $5 a minute the first day they opened it.
My buddy and I stayed up super late that night and made several hundred dollars in Amazon gift cards, which were just a coupon code you attached to your Amazon account.
The following day, they reduced the value from 300 to 100 points. Still worth it in that you could make 1/3 of the money, which was essentially free.
The final blow was when they reduced the amount to 10 points. Then it became too much. After about a week, we bought two high-end gaming computers from nearly scratch. We already had a tower and power supply for one, but the other was completely built for free, courtesy of this app. It was incredible.
lfernandes
19. Odd Collection
In undergrad, parking where you don't belong gets you a ticket. I ALWAYS parked where I didn't belong (teacher and visitor lots especially) because everything else was taken, and these were right up close to my dorm/class.
So unpaid tickets accumulate and are then applied to your tuition balance, which you must pay before you can register for the next semester (or before you get your diploma, in the case of seniors).
However, as an honors college member, I was on a 100% tuition scholarship. So, these tickets were tacked on and then wiped clear.
They caught on about halfway through junior year, but by then, I had wallpapered an entire wall of my room with over $2000 worth of blue parking tickets.
toolatealreadyfapped
20. Forgotten Meal
College age. We're all broke. One friend devises a brilliant scheme to eat for free every day. He would drive or walk in at a different fast food place each day, saying that he was given the wrong order the day before.
He’s going to say that he didn't realize it until he got home, at which time it was too late for him to go back, so he called, and the manager told him to come in today for a new and correct order.
Oh, and sorry, he forgot his receipt. I don't think there was a single restaurant that refused him. It worked like a charm every single time.
ccnova
21. Turning A Blind Eye
I used to work at a bookstore back in the day. A dude used to routinely come in and buy bargain books. He would then go home and come back another time with the bargain books with the stickers ripped off to return them and claim he didn't have a receipt.
We would then have to give him store credit for the price that the books rang up as (always more than the discounted bargain sticker). He would then come back at a later time and use the store credit to buy full-priced books.
He would then come back one final time and return the books with a cash receipt. It used to irritate me when he would do this because I knew what he was doing, and there wasn't anything I could do about it.
Interestingly enough, this very same man would become a supervisor of mine at another place I worked at later and was a pretty cool guy. I never told him I knew about his scheme, but even if I told him, he would have given zero darn.
sk4ht
22. Toll Free
I cross toll bridges on my motorcycle. Typically, you trip a sensor, and the camera takes a picture of your license plate and then charges your account.
They use the same sensors as stop light sensors, which often don't trip for motorcycles. You can also see them on the ground. So I go around them and never pay for the toll.
I'd feel bad, except the toll for a motorcycle is the same as the toll for a car. I have trouble seeing how my 350lb machine puts as much stress on the bridge as a 5000lb machine, like an SUV.
[deleted]
23. Memorable Contest
I was in 5th grade, and our elementary school was holding a contest where we read books and took tests on them with accelerated reading.
The bigger the book and the more questions we got right, the more points we would get. Whoever got the most points at the end of the year won a $500 Torker BMX bike.
I figured out my teacher's password to Accelerated Manager and would take tests on the biggest books I could find in the system.
Of course, I would bomb the tests, but then I would log into Accelerated Manager and change the results of my tests to 100%. Long story short, I still have that bike.
[deleted]
24. Popcorn Hole
Whenever I went to the movies with one of my good friends, he would dig an old popcorn bag out of the top of a trashcan, tear a hole in the bottom, and rub some of the oil on his pant leg.
He would then go up to the snack counter and, in an irritated voice, tell them his bag was defective and point to the oily spot on his pants.
Without fail, they would apologize profusely and hand him a brand new bag of the biggest size they sold (retail value ~$10).
pigbones
25. English Credits
In my senior year of high school, I had been accepted to college by Christmas, and all I needed was half an English credit to graduate.
After checking with the college, I changed all my classes to study halls except the English class. Because our school policy said seniors could leave during study hall, I just came to the class for 40 minutes and left again.
No one could stop me. It was glorious. Also, when I was preparing for the final, the English teacher told us we would get 5 points for our name on the test, and I needed a four or better to pass the semester.
When she told us that, I threw my hands up and said, "I just graduated high school!"
[deleted]
26. Free Benefits
When I was in college, a lot of credit card companies would sit outside restaurants and stores with applications for credit cards. If you applied, they'd give you free stuff, like a free burrito or something like that.
Since they were all handwritten applications, a lot of times, they would only verify the social security number by asking you to recite it after you handed them the application.
Sometimes, they would check your license, but I did not have one at the time due to a spot of legal trouble. My plan was simple - make up a social security number similar to mine, but off by a few digits so I could easily remember it.
As well as a fake address, phone number, and DOB, and if they asked me to recite it, I knew it off the top of my head. Free food/swag everywhere.
[deleted]
27. Repeated Homework
When I was in high school, I had a Spanish teacher who was nuts. An old lady who spent her whole day looking at fashion magazines.
Every night, she would give us pointless busywork, taking home 50 words in Spanish and writing each one ten times, which translates to having to write 500 words every night and wasting like ten pages of paper.
One day, while I was watching her grade them in class, I saw she was simply reading the name of the top and writing it in the grade as being received. She was going too fast to actually be reviewing the work, so I put it to a test.
Every day, I turned in the same exact homework, the same words from a random night I had done in the past. Every day, she gave me credit as if I had turned in a new assignment.
I got by every day having to do no homework and never got caught. Even if I had, I could have pulled the old, "Oops, I must have grabbed the wrong one off my desk this morning." excuse.
TheLastModerate
28. Saving Job
My favorite is a personal example. I work at a well-known game store. Employees are able to 'check out' any pre-owned games for four days at a time, as long as we have at least four of those games in stock.
We're a big store, so that's quite a few. Now, if we keep them longer than four days, we're supposed to pay for them.
The solution? The company’s return policy.
Since it's preowned, I can just go to a different Gamestop and return it for a full refund after I buy it for being late. So I've gotta have the cash up front to cover the late fee, but I get it right back the same day.
Bigfish01
29. Flight Guitar
Had a guitar broken at the neck on a flight back in 2008. Got a quote from a local music store for how much it would be to replace it.
I called the airline and told them that not only could it not be repaired, but I needed it for school (not a lie - I was getting my BMus in jazz guitar at the time) and expected them to reimburse me.
I took the guitar back home and got it fixed for about $90 (it still plays and sounds great almost four years later). A few weeks later, I got a check in the mail from AC for about $1100 and promptly used the check to buy two new guitars.
[deleted]
30. Assignment Alternative
One semester, when I was in college, I had a major project that was due in the morning, and I knew I would have to stay up all night to finish.
I also had another assignment due for a different class, but there was no time to finish it. The assignment was an essay that I was supposed to upload electronically to the professor before a certain deadline that evening.
Thinking fast, I grabbed some random system files off my computer and opened them as a text file, producing a couple of pages of random garbage characters.
I then saved the file, giving it the title of my assignment, and turned it in. After class that day, the instructor pulled me aside to let me know she had encountered a problem opening my file and asked me if I would mind re-uploading it.
I told her that I didn't have it with me but that I would send it again as soon as I got home. Finished the assignment on a break after class and turned it in a day late for full credit. One of my proudest college achievements.
theSanguinePenguin
31. Packaging Hack
My friend used to carefully cut open the cellophane wrap on video games at the top or bottom flap and slide out the case, leaving the cellophane completely intact.
He would then use a razor blade and carefully cut along the case and the plastic sheet holding the game label (still with me?). That way, the sticker would still look intact.
Eventually, he would be able to play the game, seal everything back up using clear drying glue for the cellophane edge, and return it to the store with no problem. He always had every latest and greatest game for two weeks.
BloneRanger
32. Secret Parking Attendant
A while ago, there was a guy in the news in England who worked in the booth at the local zoo's car park. Every day for years, if I remember correctly (I can't Google it right now), he ticketed all the cars that parked there.
Only one day, he disappeared, and people started asking where the car park ticket attendant was. The zoo said they thought it was the council's job to find a new worker.
The council thought it had been the zoo's employee; however, it turns out he had been neither. He simply pocketed every penny in 'parking' every day for years and years and then left while the going was good.
RodDryfist
33. Conning The Cons
One day, when I was in college, I was walking through one of the on-campus parking lots back to my dorm when I saw these two guys trying to sell "high quality" surround sound systems out of their car.
I recognized one of them from my high school. He was a grade older than me and a general putz. Out of curiosity, I listened to their spiel.
It was some obviously bogus pitch about how they were installing them in the Whittemore Center, but they ordered too many by accident. Just looking at the boxes, you could tell they were cheap knockoffs and probably worth nothing.
I could clearly tell they were excited they had "hooked" me, so I told them I just had to run over to the ATM to get the $300 they wanted.
After a few minutes, I went back and told them I only had $301 dollars in my checking account and I needed $3 to deposit first so I could withdraw the $300 and not get hit with an overdraft fee because of the different bank ATM charge.
So, foaming at the mouth, they gave me $3, and I wandered back over to the ATM. I ducked around the back and across campus to my dorm, $3 richer but mostly just entertained that I conned the con men.
AlexEvangelou
34. Double Wash
I used to go to a gas station where if you spent more than eight bucks on gas, they gave you a ticket for a free automatic car wash.
The car wash had a four-digit code that you typed in and was printed on the ticket. The employees had all these tickets stacked up in a pile on the counter to hand out to people when they got gas.
Every time I got gas, I'd go in for my free ticket, they'd hand me one, then I'd look down at the next one in the stack and memorize that number without even bothering to look at the one the guy handed me.
Then, I'd go outside and use the memorized number to wash my car and save the ticket the guy gave me until the next time I was passing by. The numbers only worked once, so it probably ticked off a lot of people behind me.
cheapinvite1
35. Free Sleeping Space
I worked in a hospital in MA for several years and people troll the hospital system SO much. The law is that an emergency room can't refuse to treat anyone who shows up.
So what the drunks admitted to the ER would do is, after taking up a room for 12 hours to sleep and berating the staff, they would be discharged.
Then, they would walk just outside to the sidewalk (technically hospital property), and then walk back into the ER and take up a room. All on taxpayer money, too, while people with actual emergencies were waiting to be seen for hours. Masterful troll.
loverofreeses
36. Auto Pass
I took an online test to receive my organization's travel credit card. I completely skipped reading the 15 pages of crap and went straight to the test.
The test basically consisted of filling in the blanks from the previous text, so I did not know enough of them to pass. It took me to a page that told me I needed to retake the test.
But I noticed the URL was www.xxxxxxxx.xxxx_Fail, so I changed it to www.xxxxxxxx.xxxx_Pass, and it took me right to the certificate page I had to print out for HR.
TheThirdWheel
37. Instant VIP
One of my friend's father looks a lot like Ted Turner, and I mean a lot. He travels for his business often and sometimes finds himself in Atlanta, ted turners stomping grounds.
One day, he has a huge group of clients and goes to a restaurant where his business partner has made a reservation for lunch. The restaurant lost the reservation and told his partner they had no free tables.
He walked to the front of the line and said to the guy, "You mean to tell me I can't get a reservation here?" The guy immediately gets them a table, comps them food and drinks, and has them waited on hand and foot.
At the end of the meal, my friend's father pays with a credit card. They return to him and say, "You're not Ted Turner." He says, "I never said I was."
IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes
38. New Electronics
I worked at an electronics store. My particular store was an outlet that was a dumping spot for all of the "damaged" or "box damaged" items that were shipped to the individual huts but then returned because they couldn't sell them in that condition.
So, I was the only person who knew what was coming in, when, and how much of it. Not all the invoices were in the corporate system, so most of the time, only 5 out of 20 boxes on a pallet were damaged.
Since we purchased all these items at a third of their cost, our store could turn around and sell the good boxes at full price.
Thus generating a large profit. This was our cover from any nosy suits that, once in a while, would show up looking at our paperwork. As for the "damaged items," they were ours for the taking. I was in high school and had my entire room outfitted with electronics.
[deleted]
39. Easy Peasy
I went into my senior year of high school with nine credits, and you need 18 to graduate. I signed up for the work program, got out of school 4 hours early, and was granted a few extra credits.
I dropped the mandatory gym (TY guidance office) and replaced it with a credit in choir. I dropped a history class and replaced it with a shop class.
Found a history class I took for 50$ through the mail that the school recognized as three credits, and I also took a two-credit English class the same way. These correspondence classes took about about 2 hours of my time to fill in the workbooks.
The final exams for these classes were taken in an unsupervised room, with students taking exams for every subject. After they finished, we all made Xerox copies at the request of the lazy staff who needed duplicates.
Everyone made copies for others taking the same test at a later date. I was handed a copy of my future history test and aced the English without trying.
Badlay
40. Favorite Food
Not really cheating the system, but during one of our college football games, they were handing out coupons for five free wings with the purchase of an entree at a nearby wing place.
I loved the wings at the place, so I asked the person handing out the coupons if I could get more. He laughed and handed me around 20.
So, for the next few weeks, whenever my friends and I went for wings, I would order appetizers for everyone and let my friends who ordered entrees get me free wings.
Zzyzx1618
41. Public Transfers
In my town, you get transfers from public transportation that last two hours from the time you acquire them. I moved pretty far from school, so I had been bussing back and forth, and instead of just throwing them away, I started collecting them and organizing them by day.
I accumulated over two years' worth of transfers that I have almost every day, and now I just use them by hiding the year because it's where most people hold and show the transfers.
I've been doing this for over a year now, and the only problems I get are the dates and weeks tend to sync from time to time, or I have a really crappy-looking transfer that will surely arouse suspicion since the last year's transfers were printed on plain paper whereas the previous years are printed on wax.
xsmiley
42. No More Limits
When I was a kid, my Dad installed Cyber Patrol on my computer to limit my internet time. Eventually, using all my tech-savvy, I found a way to beat that system.
I tried to stop the program with the task manager, but it was "too smart" for that and would bring up a prompt saying you can't exit without a password.
I tried guessing a few passwords, but it made you wait 30 seconds after each one was entered (to avoid brute force, I guess).
Solution? Quit the task while it's waiting the required 30 seconds. Then Windows treated it like a hung task and finished off that witch dead. Software was easy to cheat back then.
brewfox
43. Made Up Story
In grade 10/sophomore year of high school, I had to do a project about the Dust Bowl since we were reading The Grapes of Wrath. It had something to do with what it was like to live in that time, blah blah blah.
Our teacher was awesome, mainly cuz she felt she was going to get let go that year (budget cuts), so I always had a lot of fun in that class.
Fast forward, and I can't find a thing online about an individual family during that period. I begin thinking: it's not like she knows the history of every family that lived in that decade. So why not make one up?
I created a whole history and a heartwarming story that ended with the youngest son, Little Johnny, getting swept away in a dust bowl storm and being found dry and dead beneath a street light that evening.
When I presented this to the entire class, I knew I had just scored a giant A as I looked up and saw half the girls wiping their eyes. It was glorious.
mtbfreerider182
44. Copy Paste
In a college course at my university, I was in a computer course. I was teamed up with a bunch of slackers, and we had a semester project due at the end.
We googled the course number, and someone from another campus put their semester-end project on their website as an "online resume" with work samples from their academic career.
This person was also enrolled in the same class but at a different campus and had done the same project.
So we downloaded this person's project, changed the words slightly, and turned it in. I ended up getting an A+ in a class in which I had learned nothing.
amazingstill
45. The Savior
I've worked security for a football program for almost every home game in the past two years. Working the gates, you have to check everyone to make sure they don't bring in alcohol, food, cameras with a certain lens, etc.
The only way for someone to bring food into the stadium is if it is for medical purposes. I know you know what I do for some people.
So every time I see little kids or elderly people trying to get in with food, I ask them if they have diabetes (while giving them a look so they know what to say). They always get the hint, and I save them money.
clayuhhhn