Sink or Swim
U/byfuryattheheart: “I wasn’t a bad student, just could not wrap my head around physics. Went into our final assignment with an F. The assignment was on buoyancy and we needed to make a boat out of cardboard that could support you and your partner in a pool. To get full credit, you needed to go back and fourth once across the pool without sinking.
Then my teach made a big mistake. She offered 40 extra credit points for each additional length paddled before sinking. A bunch of groups went and most people made it across once before sinking. My buddy and I get in and paddle back and fourth. Then another length. And another. And another. We went back and fourth SIXTY TIMES. I got 2400 extra credit points on my last final in high school and went from an F to an A-.”
Kiddie Scam
U/LoveHerMore: “We used to run a ticket scam operation at the local Chuck E Cheese…they used to weigh the tickets at the front in a bowl…then they replaced them with these new machines. These machines you would feed tickets into; it would count the tickets…Turns out if you…had enough finesse, you could pull the strip of tickets out and then feed them back in, it would count the tickets over and over again…
Instead of having a bunch of really large tickets. We’d make some moderately sized ones mixed with some big ones and spread them out a bit…We got it all, the glowing disco ball, the special edition Barbie for my friend’s girl, candy, spray foam; the sticky hands. We never got found out. It was like Oceans’s Eleven but instead it was like Chuckee’s Four.”