15 People Who Can Give Masterclasses in Quick-Wittedness

Some people are always full of ideas, sometimes really extraordinary ones, and they, without a shadow of a doubt, want to put them into practice. Of course, not all ideas come true perfectly, but it is always fun to watch the process.

• A teenage niece loves instant noodles and her mother strictly forbids her eating such things. However, it doesn’t make the child want the noodles any less, so she came up with a super plan. About an hour before the mother comes, she eats noodles in her room on the sliding drawer of her desk. If necessary, she can slide it back. She opens the window wide open and enjoys it. Then she puts the container in her bag and throws it away in the morning. It’s useless to forbid a child to eat something. Let her eat enough once, and she won’t ask for it again. © Overheard / Ideer
• I found out that my boyfriend is dating someone else. Female intuition + wit and I found this girl on social media, texted her, and outlined the situation. She invited me over to her place to talk. I arrived, and her place was a mess. We talked till late in the night, and at one point she passed out, so I cleaned her flat crispy clean and felt much better after that. I used her phone to send a picture of me and her to my boyfriend and captioned it, “Take care of her.” That’s female solidarity. © Overheard / Ideer
• When I was a student, I decided to make some money by making homemade ice cream. Overnight I made a website, bought an ice cream maker, and posted ads on social media. The following morning I got an order for 2 pounds of ice cream for a birthday party. I took the ready-made ice cream to the subway, and then I realized that it would melt without a cooler bag. Helplessly, I warned the client about it. And in the evening, I was stunned to receive thankful messages from her. She said, “The ice cream melted, of course, but it was like a very tasty frosting, which everyone ate with pleasure.” But I still decided to close my startup, and out of stress and guilt, forgot about this incident for 10 years.

• I have a flea market booth. The most lucrative part about it is the freeze-dried candy I buy from a local business. I buy in bulk and have a 100% markup and still sell a crap load of candy! It helps that the local mall has pretty much the same stuff for 3x the price. People want to try it but don’t want to pay those prices, so they get excited when they see mine and buy 3 for the price of 1 mall candy. It’s silly, but I’m happy with it. © GreenOnionCrusader / Reddit
• We have a very stern director at work, and to avoid getting caught surfing the Internet, you have to turn round a hundred times to make sure he’s not coming. So, I started putting an open powder compact with a mirror on the shelf, adjusting it as needed, and using it as a rearview mirror. © Overheard / Ideer
• I sell plant cuttings and seedlings! In the springtime I just sell my extra peppers and tomatoes, and then have some well-loved houseplants that need a haircut every so often — I just root the cuttings in the water and eventually pot and sell. It’s not a ton of cash or anything, but it’s a nice way for my hobby to pay for itself over time. Also been growing pomegranates from seed because where I live they are uncommon houseplants. The local garden center sold small trees for 129+! I had no problem growing the little guys for a few months and selling for 20$ whereas the seed packs were 5 dollars for a bunch. © induceddaftfan / Reddit

• At our school, they used to make delicious hot dogs. But they would be sold out quickly and many people didn’t get them. When I was in primary school, I noted this, so I would go to the toilet 5 minutes before the end of the lesson, go to the canteen to be the first in the queue, buy 10-15 hot dogs, and sell them twice the price to those who didn’t get them. This was how I saved up for a cool Lego. And that’s when a future businessman was born in me. © Overheard / Ideer
• As a child, when I was on holiday at my grandmother’s place in the countryside, there were a lot of kids my age living on our street. And among all of them, only I had a 2-wheeled bicycle. I remember how I rented it out to everyone for 5-10 minutes, and I was paid with flowers from their mothers’ flowerbeds — gladioluses, asters, velvet flowers. I gave the bouquets to my grandmother. I am an adult now and study business. I realize that I have had an entrepreneurial spirit since childhood. © Not everyone will understand / VK
• I used to be annoyed by my husband’s lectures in the kitchen. I found a way out: as soon as he started nagging me, I applied grease remover on the hob and tiles around. Its smell drives the husband out of the kitchen within a couple of minutes, and I have a field for activity, where to “let off steam,” if the spouse made me angry. The result is silence, and the bonus is the clean kitchen. © Overheard / Ideer

• When I got pregnant, I had a clear vision of my baby’s room in which a yellow cot was an obligatory attribute. I started looking for one but found only 2 options and for the price that was too high for our family. So, I asked my husband to make a cot himself. He bought the necessary wood materials, made it himself, and I painted it. And the cot turned out to be so nice that some of our friends asked to make them a similar cot. And then we opened our online shop, we received a lot of orders. 2 years later we had our big production. And I am very happy that my simple wish has led to such a good stage in our lives. © Not everyone will understand / VK
• In 8th grade, I moved to another school. There, the school bullies immediately wanted to socialize with me. I, of course, came to the conversation alone, and there were 10 of them. I took my diplomas with me and no one even got in my way. The next day the whole school began to say hello to me, everyone thought that it was better not to come across me because all my diplomas were for wrestling. And I made them at home on the computer, printed them out, and put my name everywhere. © Overheard / Ideer
• When my husband was in college, everyone left their clothes detergent labeled with their name in the room with the washer and dryer. Someone kept using his. He got fed up, dumped the rest of his bottle, and refilled it with liquid starch. It wouldn’t hurt anyone’s clothes, just turn them stiff as a board and require multiple washings to get back to normal. The thief never stole his stuff again! © ChaoticForkingGood / Reddit

• My husband bought his mother a plot of land for a summer cottage near us so that she would have something to do when she retired. At first, she tyrannized us with planting — we planted her vegetable garden ourselves. Then the same thing happened with weeds and watering. But when it comes to harvesting, she’s the healthiest. Last year it was the same thing. One of the evenings my mother-in-law was about to come, so I decided to harvest her vegetables myself.
  I got up early and picked everything, even had time to freeze and pickle some of them. There was a lot of shouting, I’m enemy number 1 now. She doesn’t come to the summer cottage anymore and doesn’t communicate with me. The plot belongs to my husband, and I got an extra piece of land. And it was enough to harvest her vegetables once. © Overheard / Ideer
• I’m on the chunkier side. Not unhealthy. BMI within ’normal’ parameters. But I got curves. I went to a store wearing one of those tops that cinches in below the chest, above the waistline. I guess it accentuated the curves (never wearing it again, that’s for sure). An older lady comes up to me, puts her hand on my belly, and asks when I am due. She’s got that big smile on her face like we’re besties already. She’s positively beaming. I put my hand over hers, smile back, and say — I’m not pregnant. I’m just fat. Her face falls. She tries to pull her hand back. But I hold it there, counting away the seconds, positively beaming. When I finally release her, she scampers away without a single word. © QfromP / Reddit
• We were assigned to make 3-dimensional geometric shapes at school. If you don’t make it, you get an F. So my friend and I made them together. And I offered him to make some more. He asked why, I said that, most likely, everyone would forget and, in order not to get an F, would be ready to buy them from us. We made 4 bags of them and were right. Indeed, almost no one made anything, and our shapes went like hotcakes. Then we were making them for a few more days for those to whom the teacher granted an extension and for other classes. I’ve never had easier money in my life. © Unknown author / Pikabu

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