Being street-smart is one of the traits that people always aim to have. Why? Because it allows them to have what they want whenever they want.
It comes with different clever and witty strategies that make them one step ahead of other people. It’s just that there are things in this world that have their own gap that they tend to fill in and get what they want.
1. Parking Strategy
When I went to college, the parking enforcement was brutal. They had over-enrolled, and there was pretty much nowhere to park out in the off-campus housing.
You received two parking permits per unit; one car could fit in the driveway. However, you could have five people living in a unit, and if they all had cars, you had to drop $120 to get another pass.
Otherwise, you got a $45 ticket every night they found your car. We're all freaking broke, so this is obviously a terrible situation.
Now, they did have a guest pass system that any student could use ten times during a semester if they have visitors. You'd click the link on your online profile and get a parking permit generated for that day at that time with a special QR code stamped on it.
Upon closer inspection of the script they used to generate these things, the QR code was simply the date and time of printing hashed into the bar code—no other data.
So, I downloaded the raw HTML of the page that was generated, wrote a quick PHP script to randomize the time and loop through the next 50 days, and printed out passes for all of my friends' cars.
I decided not to sell the permits to people who needed them and rather generated a standalone PHP program to generate permits up to 10 at a time that they could print themselves. Fill in your car's info, generate ten printable pages, print 'em, and stash 'em in your car. I was a hero.
prospectre
2. Free Drink
In the mid-90s, there was a 20-oz drink that had instant winners of another free drink under the cap. If you had a winner, all you had to do was give the cap to the cashier and grab another.
I don't remember what brand it was, but I remember it was a yellow cap for this promotion. Anyways, all you had to do was hold the bottle at the correct angle, and you could see the text on the underside of the cap in the reflection of the liquid.
You could mostly see if it was a winner or, sorry, try again. We used to get a bunch of free colas that way when I was a kid. All you had to do was buy one to get it started.
tarnationsauce2
3. Free Coupons
Last month, a food company sent out coupons to the residents of my neighborhood. One of the two coupons was "One Free Rice, Noodle, or Salad Bowl" (with no restrictions.)
I live in an apartment, and some of my neighbors threw the coupons into the junk mail recycling bin without realizing what they were doing.
For the days following the delivery of these coupons, I searched the bins for these coupons. I ended up with enough coupons to last me the whole month.
With all the add-ins (4x meat, 2x or 3x veggie, 2x curry), my average bowl is valued at $16. Multiplied by 30 coupons = $480 of free food.
GaryFromAtlanta
4. Wise Strategy
So I was 11 years old and at a water park with my family. I wanted to go to Burger King that day, and my dad repeatedly said no way; he didn't have the money for that.
They had this system where when you arrived, you bought a bracelet for $4, which you could exchange for a tube to ride around on stuff. At the end of the day, you'd return the bracelet, and they'd give you $1.
It was around the middle of the day, and there were people both coming and going, and there was a really long line at the stand to get/return bracelets.
So, I sold my bracelet to some guy at the back of the line for $3. He didn't have to wait, and I gave him a dollar off, so it was all good.
Then I took that $3 and bought back three bracelets from people waiting to return them (I gave them the same price they'd get at the booth, but they didn't have to wait).
I sold those three bracelets to other people at the back of the line for $3. Rinsed and repeated a bunch of times and spent about half an hour hustling.
Went back to my dad with $40 bucks and gave it to him, and explained how I got it. Asked if we could go to Burger King now. He was like, yeah, you win. Whoppers were on me that day.
ascii_genitalia
5. Scan For Trampoline
I work in an office next to a well-known store, so I walk there almost daily to eat lunch. Without fail, I'll usually find discarded receipts on the ground from customers who litter or leave them in carts.
I then scan the barcodes in that company’s "Savings Catcher" app. The app price matches the items and then refunds me the difference if it was cheaper at a competitor.
The funds can be redeemed at their website. I made enough in a year to buy my kids a trampoline. It was a fulfilling moment for me, lol!
mikedudical
6. Advanced Ways
Do standardized tests count as systems? In elementary school, we had to take one that was a week long. Isn’t it weird? Or is it not just in my school?
Anyway, you would get one booklet, say 50 pages, and were told to do pages 1-10, hand it in, the next day, you get it back, do pages 11-20, hand it in, get it back the third day, do pages 21-30, etc.
Well, OBVIOUSLY, I just looked ahead to the next day's pages and looked up stuff I didn't understand. It's like they were begging you to cheat.
647
7. Independent Life
I convinced my high school school system I was emancipated when I was fifteen with no supporting paperwork. I got to know the secretary and asked once what I needed on their end because I was getting emancipated.
I would check in every week or so, say hi, and just try and be nice. After about three months, I walked in very excited, explaining how I was getting my own place and getting a job.
She filed my paperwork immediately, and from that point on, I controlled my supervision in high school. I wrote my notes and had my phone number as the contact info.
Also, I could sign off on anything that required a parent's signature. I went through the rest of school like this, and my family never found out. And yes, I graduated.
houseofmatt
8. Mother’s Care
When my son was little, I was a single mother without child support (dad was on the certificate, just didn't pay), living in a very bad area with an underfunded school system.
When I went down to get a look at it, I was told that because the boy had been born with a tied tongue and still had some residual speech issues, he would be placed in a special ed program.
All disabled students were placed in the same program: speech difficulties, Down syndrome, motor difficulties, intellectual disability. The place looked, sounded, and seemed to be run as a harsh, overstrained institution.
My mother lived 20 miles away in the same area I had grown up, a village of 600 people. It has one of the best school systems in the state due in part to a wealthy tax base and in part to an excellent sports program. Its graduates went on to college at a 90% rate.
At the school in my district, it was less than 60%. After speaking with my mother, I went to the post office and opened a box under my name, tied to her address. I called the phone company and had the bill set up in my name and sent to the PO Box.
When I renewed my driver's license, that was the address I gave. I did this with a few other incidental things. When school started, I registered him using my mother's address and every morning at 4:30.
I would get him up and drive him over there to the local daycare to go on to school so I could come back into town to be at work by 6, then I'd pick him up after school and take him home again. We went on this way for almost two years.
He received normal speech therapy and showed enormous improvement within a year. Before long, he qualified for the gifted program. Eventually, a bus driver apparently noticed my long-distance commute and tattled to the school.
I was called into the office, where I produced all the bills and paperwork I'd expected I might have to. I think the principal knew I was lying, but he silently took the paperwork, Xeroxed it, and returned it to me.
I hate to lie, and more than anything, I hate to lie like that right in the face of someone who hasn't done me any harm, but I had absolutely no choice. I didn't budge.
The paperwork satisfied the powers that be, and within two years, I'd found an apartment in the better district and moved in. My son will graduate next year.
Sysiphuslove
9. Instant Free Trip
It wasn't intentional, but I got a free $60 bus ride last year. I accidentally booked my trip for the wrong day and didn't realize until I was already in line, waiting for my bus (a 12-hour ride that crossed an international border).
The driver told me that the bus I had bought was scheduled to leave tomorrow and that I couldn't get on this one. I was upset since I had already taken a 2-hour bus ride to get to this bus station, and it was about 1 am.
He felt bad, and since there was one extra seat on the bus, he let me take it. The next day, after arriving, I got an email saying that my bus was canceled due to snow/ice/bad road conditions.
You had the choice to either reschedule or get a refund. I would have done nothing, but it even said that if you didn't reschedule within 72 hours or so, they would just issue a refund. Boom. Free trip.
jamagotchi
10. Evidence Into Shreds
I got a speeding ticket when I was 17 and was sentenced to 'teen court.' The penalties were various community service jobs you could choose from.
I was sentenced to 90 hours of community service. One of the jobs was at city hall scanning paper documents and then shredding them (this was in 1997).
I was only working on documents that were not sensitive, like various old budgets and stuff, but the sensitive documents were just on another shelf in the same room. After about an hour, I found my speeding ticket record, shredded it, and left. Never heard anything else about it.
[deleted]
11. Acing It
My senior English teacher in HS gave us her entire grading scale and assignment list for the semester. A buddy and I did the math and worked hard for several weeks, then just stopped turning in assignments and aced the tests.
She kept telling us that we needed to turn things in and that she'd give partial credit, and we declined. Eventually, we got to the end of the semester, and she was passing out final grades.
She got over to us, laid our grades on our desks, looked us in the eyes, and said, "Thanks to you two, I'm going to have to change my grading system."
We both got an A. I think he got a couple of tenths of a percent higher for turning in one more assignment than I did. Over-achiever.
iammandalore
12. Academic Mindset
Sat down and read my graduation requirements for university and went through all the classes that could cross across different fields.
My university allowed some classes to count twice if they were used for different degrees. I graduated from the public university system in four years with over 180 credit hours and three degrees.
It was all for the same price as people who were taking the minimum amount of classes. I was informed by my old academic advisor that the university changed its rules after my graduation because of me.
Dendi
13. Sit In
I sit in on college and graduate level courses without signing up or paying even the reduced audit fees. I simply show up early on the first day of class, wait for the teacher to be free for a minute, and ask if they mind if I sit in.
9 times out of 10, they'll let me sit in on lectures, 7 out of 10 on discussion groups. I do this simply because I enjoy learning.
Even if teachers aren't supposed to let me sit in, they're in charge of enforcing that and enjoy teaching engaged students, so they're generally happy to have me.
There are even schools that allow you to test for credits so you can turn this free education into a quick and cheap degree when you've done enough of it.
techniforus
14. High Sales
Newspaper paid kids $15 for every $5, 4-month subscription going house to house. I took my first paycheck and cashed it for $5 bills and traded a crisp $5 bill for every person who gave me a $5 check.
Every subscriber who did this made me $10. Since it cost the subscriber nothing but a check, I made quite a bit of money in my first couple of weeks.
I was fired a few months later when the newspaper realized how many sales I was getting. I made quite a bit, though. It was a win-win situation for me.
cool---coolcoolcool
15. Invisible Diploma
I was kicked out of high school and felt bad that I didn't graduate. One day, I went to the community college my brother was attending and asked to take a placement test while I waited for him to finish registering for classes.
On the test, I wrote that I had graduated from the high school I attended. After I was done with the test, I decided I'd try registering for classes with my results sheet that said I had a diploma.
No problems registering, so I rolled with it. Two years later, I graduated. I got a copy of my transcript, and it said I had the high school diploma and the degree I had earned.
I was admitted to the university of my choice, and two years after that, I had two degrees and a fake high school diploma. Not looking back.
[deleted]
16. Sneaky Time In
In work, we have a clocking in/out system that pays you an extra 15 minutes wage if you stay for 7 minutes (for example, shift ends at 8 pm... if I stay clocked in until 8:07, I get paid an extra 15 minutes).
Now, I make sure to turn up to work at least 7 minutes early to clock in and make sure I use the toilet or something at the end of my shift so I clock out a little later.
I typically get paid an extra 30 minutes for pretty much no time at all. I've been doing this for about a year, and it's earned me an extra £700-800 on my yearly wage.
shamanstooth
17. Employee Perks
Not something I do anymore, but something I used to do. I worked at a takeaway restaurant. One of the few perks for the employees was that if you worked an opening or closing shift, you’d receive a free lunch and drink from the menu.
Because of my schedule, I used to get quite a few of these shifts. At the time, there was also a promotion going on with a well-known beverage.
Basically, whenever you buy a bottle, you can use the code on the label to earn points on their website. You can probably see where this is going now.
Basically, I was able to drink several bottles of it each week, input the codes, and then earn a ton of points, all without paying a cent. Over the course of just a few months, I received enough points for a PS3 game and an iTunes card.
Unfortunately, there was an incident, and suddenly, employees weren't allowed free lunches anymore. But it was a nice bonus while it lasted. Good for my wallet, not so good for my teeth.
Bale_Fire
18. Free Ice Cream
This ice cream chain in used to have this "Ice cream"-card, where you deposited money to a chip card, and if you paid with it, you'd get a discount.
It turned out that the amount of money on the card was just some variable in its memory, with no particular security around it.
A few lines of code and some instructions, and the card would always reset back to 10 dollars automatically. Free ice cream ahoy.
fersknen
19. Payment Hack
A laundromat near me uses smart cards for payments. I've looked at the washing machines and dryers, and they do not appear to be networked in any way, meaning that the balance must be stored on the card itself.
So if I load $20 on the card, I could probably just back it up, then re-write it every time I go to do laundry. Or just find the hex field that contains the balance and change the value.
I have a smart card writer, somewhere, from years ago. Many times, I have tried to find it to hack free laundry but never found it. Probably better off.
JasonDJ
20. Resting Tool
In elementary school (Grade 5), we took a "pacer test" in the gym. This consisted of running up and down the basketball court in a set amount of time per lap, that time shortening every few laps.
You got to have one strike before you got out, and most people would run and almost make it to the next line, but the beep would go off, and they would use their strike and run back.
I decided it would be a better use of the strike to take one step, catch my breath, and when the beep went off, take one step back, catch my breath, and then run on the next beep.
This allowed me to have a ~15 sec break while everyone else ran. It cost me the strike, but it was much more useful as a resting tool than a failsafe tool.
CheroCole
21. Unli Retakes
In college, when online tests were just starting to be a thing, I had a class that used the online stuff. You'd go to the website and click "week one quiz."
Then, you’ll fill out all the answers and put your email address and the professor's email address in. It emails the results to the teacher and to you, explaining all your wrong answers.
I accidentally figured out that if you forgot to put in the professor's address, it would fail on the submission, but it would still email you the explanation of the grade. Then, you correct the answers. Put in his email and submit the quiz for full credit.
IamanIT
22. Transfer Tips
Not me, but a friend of a friend. He hated high school and the people there, so he started taking community college classes in order to graduate early.
He realizes at some point that he can somehow transfer all his classes from high school into the community college. Because he does this, he is now a fully enrolled college student, which means he can transfer.
So, he transferred to a much better college in Chicago. He is about to graduate with a college degree and no high school diploma.
Cpt_Tsundere_Sharks
23. Three Jackpots
I was interning while getting my master's degree. For my thesis project, I decided I wanted to do something practical that applies to my internship and might be useful beyond academia.
This was also nice because I would get paid to work on it (paid internship).
Anyway, I suppose just getting paid to do my school work was a pretty good cheat of the system, but my coup de grace was convincing my boss to let me work remotely.
This allowed me to work from home (getting paid to do my homework at home) and take it to my parent's house on the beach for two months. So effectively, I got paid to do my homework on a beach. Pretty nice setup.
Shilvahfang
24. Fake Allergies
So I was in the army, like 80% of men my age in Finland. It was the last stretch, the last camp we had to go to. It would be one week at some random location that I had no intention of going to.
Lucky me, I had gone to the military hospital to get my allergy test done a couple of weeks earlier (while you're in the army, you get all the tests and medical stuff for free, so why not).
I knew the medical staff's rulings always overridden the training side, and the communication between the two was lacking.
Anyway, we had to pack our 'täyspakkaus', basically all the gear you might need while there. I did this but crammed it in my locker.
Then I proceeded to chill for a while in our squad room until our officer cadet came to ask why my gear wasn't in the PASI yet. Casually just remarked that I had a release from the hospital that I can't go, allergies, you see.
Cadet started to steam a bit and yelled that now all the guard rosters were wrong and needed to be redone. I thought that this couldn't be this easy. Waited a while. A day. A few days. Then, I ran into my lieutenant in the barracks.
He was just counting how many men were sick/not in camp and started to fume at the captain. They didn't check if I was really released from camp. I never got caught.
ThrownAway95163
25. New Phone
I had been wanting a phone brand for some time, but the only local carrier was poor- not even price-wise, but with signals and coverage. Anyway, out of nowhere, a new challenger carrier appeared where you could purchase from their website.
I dithered around too long, and they sold out a couple of hours after launch. Being a stubborn nerd, I didn't want to take no for an answer.
Now, the following will seem weird to people, but I make websites for a living. I have dev tools installed and love to check out how other sites do things, so I opened up a browser inspector.
Lo and behold, the online store did not remove the Add to Cart button from the page but simply hid it with CSS. I unhid it and started the checkout process, assuming it would do an inventory check and shut me down.
Nope. Made it through the checkout process for my shiny new phone! A couple days later, I got a call from the carrier, and I freaked out, thinking they were calling to bust me. Turns out they just called to verify addresses for new customers, and all was well.
I'm still a loyal customer 5 years later, and I'm so sorry to the poor chap who didn't get his phone because of a crappy online store that let me order it instead.
corialis
26. Two Televisions
The TV broke and had a replacement cover. TV went away to be fixed. A week later, a letter arrived stating the TV couldn't be fixed.
Go to the store with said letter and ID to receive a replacement TV. I didn't open this letter when it arrived. It got jumbled up in a pile of crap I had.
Anyway, about a week from the unopened letter arriving, my TV turned up as good as new. Happy days. Then I found the said letter, opened it, took myself to the store, and received a brand new TV for free.
Now I have two! Winner winner! What's more, the value of the replacement didn't match the valuation they gave me a £40 voucher on top.
Crookles86
27. Extra Income
I worked selling tickets at a horse race track. Every week, the track would put 2-for-1 coupons in the paper. I would find discarded papers, cut out all the coupons, and take them to work.
Most people came in with no coupon, so I would put a coupon in the register and pocket the difference. The register is always balanced.
I would also talk to the horse owners about how they thought their horses would do, and then I would use the coupon money to bet on the horses.
The management knew I was up to something, but they had no way of proving it. The accounting all added up. My register was the only one that came out perfectly balanced every day.
NonTransferable
28. Bottomless Juice
This one time on vacation, 3 of us went to lunch and bought mimosas. They gave us a bottle of champagne and a jar of orange juice.
We each had a mimosa, but we still had half a bottle of champagne but no orange juice! The waitress came around and filled up our orange juice jar.
We all had a nice glass of orange juice from the orange juice jar. Then the waitress came back and refilled the orange juice jar again! BOOM! Unlimited orange juice! We drank orange juice like kings for the rest of that lunch!
Before that day, I'd never had enough orange juice at a restaurant. Still, I will tell you this, my friends, life is different after you've had enough orange juice at a restaurant.
Food tastes better. The air seems fresher. You'll have more energy and self-confidence than you ever dreamed of. Whew! That was a good orange juice, tho.
cday119
29. Wise Typing
When I was in high school, I had a part-time job working on data entry. I'd transcribe customer information from a handwritten card into a database, tabbing through the fields to enter each bit of info (first name, last name, dob, address, phone, etc).
The job paid based on how fast you could type. My friends and I figured out fairly early that their program counted keystrokes, which made no distinction between keys.
Instead of tabbing over to the next field, you could hold down the space bar and exponentially increase your keystrokes instantly.
OpticalInfusion
30. Bargaining Tricks
When I see something on Craigslist that I really want but I think is overpriced, I make fake, lowball offers with throwaway e-mail accounts.
For instance, let's say a couch is listed at $1000, but I do not want to pay more than $700 for it. I'll make several offers from different accounts around $400-600, hoping to create the illusion that the value of the item is lower than it actually is to the OP.
Then, when I come in eventually at $700, it looks it may just be the best offer, and I can generally get it accepted. What an illusion, lol!
sporous
31. New Computer
My college gave students an expensive mobile workstation their freshman year with a warranty that covers accidental damage.
If you break it, the IT center will replace it with a refurbished computer of the same model. In my senior year, someone figured out that if you try to get it replaced directly through HP.
They don't have the old computers anymore, so they send you their latest model instead. I ended up throwing my 4-year-old laptop from the 3rd story and sending its shattered remains to HP.
I had to make sure it was beyond repair, so I cracked the motherboard for good measure. What I got back was their latest and greatest mobile workstation.
charles-danger
32. Working Smarter
I was in law school and qualified to submit an article to the Law Review. This is supposed to be a prestigious thing for your resume.
The Law Review is headed by a Law Review Board consisting of students with the highest grades who are in general, pretty impressed with themselves.
I wrote an article and submitted it to the board for editorial comment. The comments were that the article was too long and needed to be shortened.
So, I had the same article re-typed in a smaller font, which reduced the number of pages, and I resubmitted it. They loved it.
MisterNatural77
33. Wink Of Gift
We moved to an area served by Waste Management, and so when I moved in, the person before me was paying for extra large bins, and I thought that I could go for the small.
The truck shows up in the morning with the small bins, and they are way too small. I told him I would hold on to the ones I have.
Apparently, the truck is not like some high-tech, electronically dispatched, on-the-ball stocking system because the guy declared it.
He said, "I'll leave the big ones, but we don't have a way to change anything here, so you'd have to change your plan on the website." Like a smelly Santa Claus, he left with a wink.
[deleted]
34. Lifetime Warranty
A brand used to only require you to cut off the headphone jack and send that in to get your lifetime warranty replacement.
The FMJ headphones came in 2 parts: headphones with a short cord and an extender. Since no proof of purchase was required either, you could file 2 warranty claims, send in 2 jacks, and get 2 new headphones.
So my brother and I were able to turn 1 pair bought off eBay for $40 into four new pairs of $75 earbuds, which all had a lifetime warranty. Then, they changed their policy and procedure.
BMKingPrime27
35. Cheaper Price
Earphones ALWAYS eventually break on me, so I buy new ones when I get the extended warranty. 10 months later, this is when things will start.
When one ear invariably stops working, I go back and, using the extended warranty, get another pair for free. Except then, I buy an extended warranty for the second pair for £3.99 or whatever.
Ten months later, replace the replacement pair and buy another warranty, etc, etc, etc. Now I'm regularly getting a new pair of £150 earphones for all of £4 a year.
efergusson
36. Lucky Caller
When I was about 11, our local TV station would run contests weekly in which the first caller would win (something). After trying to win in previous weeks, I knew that the number you called to win was always busy.
The contest fell on one day of the week, during like a 30-minute segment of some show. It would just pop up on the screen during the segment- "Call now to win!"
Knowing this, and knowing that the first caller would win, I just sat there from the beginning of the segment, hitting redial on the phone until…
It finally rang at almost the exact same time as the "Call now!" notification came across the TV. I won! I was ecstatic that I had won something, but what was it? A freaking gift certificate for a haircut. I didn't try to win that contest again.
transcendReality
37. Good Friends
Not me, but my dad. About 10 years ago, a grocery store in the US had a promotion that if you brought in your new prescription to the pharmacy, they would put $20 onto your club card.
My dad befriended the pharmacist and somehow convinced him to give my dad the $20 credit anytime he brought in his prescriptions, whether they were new or not.
Between both my parents' medications, over the course of the year, my dad had racked up about $1000 worth of free groceries. I would always get nervous at the checkout, but darn, that 'free' food was delicious.
spoonerhouse
38. Free Time
In high school in the UK, people generally took three subjects for A-levels. (I believe it's up to five now.) This left them with some free time, so they had to volunteer for social service charity duty to fill up the extra space on their schedule.
I opted to take five A-level subjects instead. This left me with absolutely no time at all, so I was naturally exempt from community service.
Two months in, I dropped two subjects and was back down to the regular three subjects. The school never noticed, and I remained at the same workload as everybody else academically.
I was being excused from having to visit Old Age Pensioners in the village and do their gardening for them. I spent the time playing DnD.
[deleted]
39. Instant Gift
Mine was completely unintentional. I ordered boots, and on the day they were supposed to arrive, the UPS site said there was a problem with delivery and told me to contact the seller.
So, I sent Groupon an email explaining that. About 20 minutes later, I got an email from them saying UPS was sending my boots back to the warehouse for some reason.
They refunded my money and told me I'd have to purchase the boots again..... I got home from work that night, and my boots were sitting on my porch! For the record, I flipped a coin to determine if I should tell Groupon. Thankfully, the coins gods were in my favor.
violetdaze
40. Legal Secret
I transferred credits from a Bio class from Big College (where they explicitly forbade double-counting credits) to my Community College.
I used it to satisfy a General Ed certification requirement, used the cert to satisfy the requirements for my associate degree, and then used the cert + the associate degree to satisfy a GE requirement at Big College.
All of the administrators kept having to call around and see if it was legal to do, and they kept coming back to me all confused and frustrated and saying things like, "No one has ever done this before."
ThisTimeIsNotWasted
41. The Guest
A friend was staying at a swanky hotel where he got a free breakfast buffet. He said it was $20 for non-guests, so I said I'd meet him for breakfast.
First, I met him in his room, and then we came back down on the elevator and went into the dining room. Our intent was to have a breakfast discount.
Since we had just come off the elevator, the greeter just assumed I was a guest, too, and didn't bother asking my name and room number or anything. Free breakfast!
PenisBeautyCream
42. Group Work
I pulled a lot of loophole crap in high school, which explains why I was an English major in college. I was VERY observant when it came to word choice, and I'd do anything I could to make things easier for me because of it.
My AP Environment Science teacher assigned us a project to document all of the environmental safety acts from 1980 to the present (then 2002), including when they were enacted, what they protect, and what the penalty was for breaking those rules.
At that point, there were 22 total acts, and I didn't want to do this whole project on my own. I noticed that on the assignment sheet, it was stated that we could do the project in a group.
So, I created a group of 22 people spanning 3 periods of the class, and I assigned each person 1 act. They filled the info into a template I gave them and then emailed it back to me.
I compiled all of the information, created a title page with 22 names on it (LOL), and emailed the completed project back out to everyone.
The look on my teacher's face the day we turned it in was priceless. He pulled me aside later and told me the staff got a good chuckle out of what we did. We got an A on that professor, too.
MindofKB
43. No Limits
Most weekends I go by train to visit my girlfriend. Because of National Rail's limitations on ticket types, I have to buy a standard return ticket, which lasts for up to a month.
Usually, what happens is I stay for a day, then go back, and my return gets eaten by the barrier, so that's the one month I paid for gone, right?
The twist is that I also have a season ticket card for traveling to work. So I come back, use my card to get through the barrier, and buy singles for the next 3 weeks to get through on the other end. The £2.50 I save makes me feel like a real wiz kid.
[deleted]
44. Overlaying Music
I tricked my phone to background play YouTube using Bluetooth. Exiting the app while loading the video sometimes keeps the controller in the notification bar.
It’s allowing me to press play and the next video in a playlist while redditing, for example. Only works when using a Bluetooth device, and ads still play.
Then, you have to manually press the next song on the notification bar when the song ends to go to the next one in the playlist.
Still worth it since you can do anything else as long as you don't enter the YouTube app because you have to redo it again when you leave it. Also works with the screen off.
Thomasedv
45. No More Shortage
My school was running out of paper for photocopiers and printers. We were told that we should plan ahead and send our photocopying out to our county "doc tech," who do copies and publications, mostly for large demands.
In my head, I'm thinking, "If Docutech has paper, why can't we just get some?" Not that simple. So I printed one piece of paper with a footer, "xxxxx High School Math Department."
I requested 5,000 copies. In a couple weeks, my box of almost blank paper arrived, and I used it in the copier as needed. Haha!
Soon, sheets appeared with "xxxxx High School English Department" and others. Got us through the shortage. It was effective.
Chez_Rubenstein