‘What’s the dumbest idea you’ve seen that actually worked?’ – 21 utterly stupid plans that were somehow a big success

13.

‘Me investing $300 into GameStop right when all the memes were starting. I profited around $600 in 2 days when I sold. Used the money to buy a PS5… from Target.’
–pops992

14.

‘When my husband and I were about five months into dating I told him I thought we should break up, not because anything was wrong but because I had just gotten out of a serious (bad) relationship prior to us dating and I was more interested in a Tinder fling than anything serious, which is where our relationship was headed.

‘He told me ‘no’, which I think I was too shocked by to argue. Eight years and two kids later we have a very healthy dynamic. But seriously, how? I think we should break up isn’t normally a discussion topic.’
–Merryfrickenpoppins

15.

‘Lost engine oil pressure and had to land our Navy H-3 helicopter in a mountain top pad. It was an O ring that leaked. Rather than waiting hours for mech to be flown out, we rolled a condom to the appropriate thickness and cut the rest off. Quick test and we were back for dinner.’
–wtdoor77

16.

‘I was broke, had no real plan or opportunities. Quit my job, drove across the country (US) to – find myself? Figure out life? No idea. I was 23, probably an idiot, but I had no responsibilities to anyone but me.

‘Found a career in IT, a wife, and now have a grown kid, a house, a dog, a couple cars, the whole ‘American dream’ package. Every once in a while, usually while standing in my yard over the grill with a beer in my hand, I’m like ‘Fuck me, it worked!”
–RetroactiveRecursion

17.

‘I used to sell and install home satellite TV systems. I had a customer in a heavily wooded area whose only line of sight to the satellite was blocked by a tree branch about an inch in diameter, several hundred feet away and maybe seventy feet off the ground.

‘I spent half an hour trying to figure out how to cut this limb without climbing that tree, and went and told him he was out of luck. He told me to hang on. He went and got a rifle, and cut the tree limb off with three shots. I took extra care to make sure he was a happy customer.’
–FloydDangerBarber

18.

‘Pet rocks. There is no idea dumber than that, that made its inventor millions.’
–thePsychonautDad

19.

‘In college, I had a test i was worried about on a subject I really struggled with. My roommate was actually really good in that subject and our third roommate suggested we all get drunk and have a last minute tutoring session the night before.

‘Somehow, I did better on the test than my roommate who tutored me. Again, we were drunk during this tutoring session. Like, drunk drunk.’
–EkbyBjarnum

20.

‘In a coordinators meeting at a soup kitchen we were discussing the issue that people were not separating recyclables properly. Three different groups operated in that kitchen with different schedules so it was hard to get the message across, people threw non recyclables in the recycling bin all the time. We had been struggling with this for like a year.

‘Some of the coordinators wanted to get more strict, some wanted to put more and bigger signs, some wanted to give up on it. I said ‘People probably throw food in there on autopilot, put a lid on it so they have to stop and think before doing it’. We did and we never had that issue again.’
–LlaneroAzul

21.

‘When I was a kid, my family went to Disney and stayed at the campground. A few lots up from us, someone cut a hole into the side of their tent and duct taped a single room air conditioner to the opening. My dad said it was ‘simultaneously the dumbest and most intelligent thing’ he had ever seen.’
–SexyNeanderthal

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