25 ‘I Can’t Believe That Worked’ Moments

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25 ‘I Can’t Believe That Worked’ Moments

Once in a while, you throw a Hail Mary that you assume can’t possibly work, but somehow does. A Redditor remembers the time they were truly up against it, taking a math test that they knew they’d fail. After doodling for the entire duration of the class, he dog-eared his answer sheet and put it in the pile with everyone else’s before walking out. At the next class, his teacher pulled him aside, and assuming she lost the rest of his answer sheets, she told him that she’d leave that test out of his overall class score for the semester. 

Other Redditors have shared the times they uttered “I can’t believe that worked!” and you should definitely take inspiration from them — after all, you never know what will work out in the end.

CPL_iMba 8y ago Had a physics exam in university. One of the questions practically took up an entire page and had a bunch of information I didn't know how to deal with. I move on, finish the rest of the test, and then come back to this question. At this point, about an hour has elapsed from the start, and I was in no mood to think through this question. So I put -2. Literally a huge 2 in the middle of the page. Ended up getting the question right bc the answer was
dakky68 8y ago e Got a white heat mark on a timber dining table from a hot serving dish (even with a cutting board under the dish). Looked up ways to get rid of it and found many recommendations to place a wet cloth and a hot steam iron over the mark. Thought fuck it and gave it a try - it totally fucking worked.
 8y ago My college roommate (who hated me) had these really ugly string lights that she refused to turn off at night. I kept bringing up how I couldn't sleep because of the excess light, but she never acknowledged my feelings. After about a month of this I got sick of being reasonable with her, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. You could plug stuff into the other end of the lights, mainly another string of lights, but the plug could not accept anything grounded or polarized. So, I took my coffee maker, bent the
mikemtb 8y ago Was planning on skipping my Organic Chem 2 class in college one day, when a friend called and said did you forget about the test? so I booked it over, was 5 minutes late, and when I walked in the teacher handed me my copy of the test... When I sat down I realized my friend had already gave me a copy of the test, and the teacher had accidentally handed me the answer key. I wrote down my answers, passed the answer key along, and turned in my answer sheet with the blank test sheet that
Guinness2702 8y ago . In a nightclub, just standing around chatting to my mate. A girl walks past, towards the bar ... not right next to me, maybe 5 yards away .... and glances at me as she passes. I just waved at her and smiled. Long story short, I lost my virginity that night. + 1.9K ...
Sharpygvet 8y ago e Edited 8y ago . Back in school I was in English class and my friend knew I had not done my homework which was to write a short story. Knowing this when the teacher asked for people to read out their story my friend instantly shouted out that he had read my story and it was really good. In my friends amazement I then proceed to stare at my book while making up a full short story. Teacher never noticed.
dog_baby 8y ago I was 19 and all my friends were older or had fake IDs. Got turned away at the bar by the bouncer. I had never been there before. I went around back, walked through the kitchen through an open back door. Past several workers. Walked into a hallway where the bathrooms were. There was another bouncer there. I acted drunk and confused, said Where'd you say the bathroom is again? Не shrugged, pointed to the men's room. Spent the rest of the night drinking with my friends. 1.7K ...
SXOSXO 8y ago Friends TV (old tube style) suddenly went green while we were watching sitcoms. As a jest I told him I know how to fix it, walked over and banged it on both sides with my fists. I was only joking, but it actually did fix it. From then on, it became our little joke/party trick when other people were over and the TV would go green. 1.3K ...
Mcgovlau 8y ago o Randomly asking a friend if he had a metal detector when we lost car keys in 12 inches of snow. Не did had a metal detector and we found the keys. 975 ...
 8y ago Was on duty, in my ambulance, and the battery decided to die. The back has a separate battery to power the equipment. We had jumper cables so I had the bright idea to jump start the truck, using it's second battery. It actually works. I couldn't believe it + 1.9K ...
Sithis1415 8y ago in middle school I was bullied a lot and would come home with black eyes and bloody noses. One day I had enough so I simply walked up to my bully and punched him in face face as hard as I could and he dropped instantly. Everyone was just looking at me and was like. Holy shit that just worked. + 2.1K ...
catfroman 8y ago Was trying to get into a developer bootcamp I was woefully underqualified for. Memorized as much of a 100 top programming interview questions list as I could and BSed my way through the interview. Managed to learn enough on the fly to not look like a complete dumbass and here I am almost 3 years later, making way more than I should at a job I had no idea how to do when I started. Thankfully I'm a solid developer now, but holy shit if I never did that, I'd be stuck in tech support forever. +
Xark_Oasis 8y ago I got caught smoking pot by a cop so I gave him a semi true suicidal depression story and how it was either weed or suicide and he told me well Mr. ****** we have two options. Option 1 is me arresting you for possession of Marijuana and option 2 is you stomp that weed out right here in front of me I HAVE NEVER STOMPED ON SOMETHING so HARD IN MY LIKE. As a black male in a country town in Texas, it's easily the luckiest moment of my life 2.2K ...
clf1394 8y ago I swam when I was in high school and when I was in the locker room getting ready for practice, my friend told me he couldn't remember his locker combo. It was one of those dial masterlocks that has 3 numbers from 0-39. I told him move over, I got this and randomly spun it to 3 numbers and pulled down. I got it in the first try. + 3.1K ...
jouelle1 8y ago I went to a private college prep high school for the first three years. I dont really recall why I looked into this but I found out that if all my credits transferred to public school I'd technically only need 2 more classes to be eligible to graduate. Checked into it further and found out that you can't really just go to 2 classes and leave... Unless of course you enroll in the work exit program. Got myself a part time job, and transferred schools. My senior year was one semester long, went to school for 2
nopoles613 8y ago I once had a math test in High School that I knew I was totally going to flub. I was normally a really good student and did well at math, but today wasn't my day. The test questions were all on one sheet and we were instructed to use blank pages to write our answers. I sat during the whole test just doodling on the blank pages. At the end, I put my name on the question sheet and folded over the corner as if there were other sheets with it, and put it on the pile
Ookitarepanda 8y ago Sent a Facebook message to a girl I'd kinda disappeared on several years ago. I had just gotten my first teaching job at the time and was so stressed out that I just never got back to her after our first date. Figured I owed her an apology and so I reached out. Now it's been 2.5 years of us together and it's the most successful and healthy relationship I've ever been in. + 4.2K ...
Jojamder 8y ago When I was a kid my sister sat in front of me. I held my hamster in front of her toe and said bite! for fun. Well, he did it and it was the first time ever he bit one of us. There was some blood and we were stunned. + 4.1K ...
zerbey 8y ago After a long night I realised I had spent (ahem drank) my last £20 and so couldn't afford the train fare home. Decided to try the ATM anyway. Put in my PIN and tried to withdraw cash. ATM threw an error code then gave me £20. That money never showed up on my account ledger so free gift from a broken ATM! + 5.9K ...
soomuchcoffee 8y ago Edited 8y ago I was at the cafeteria at college with a buddy. Не was having a bad weekend for whatever reason. I saw this attractive girl across the room, and asked him what he thought. Не was like, ya, cute. So I made up my mind. I'd go over, hit on her out of fucking nowhere, and presumably he could have a laugh at my inevitable rejection. I was half drunk, reeked like cigarettes, and wearing sweatpants. It was a slam dunk of rejection. I told him I was gonna go say hi and he shook
TheMekar 8y ago In high school I became overly frustrated with my increasingly struggling PS2. It wouldn't read the discs sometimes and it was only getting worse. Threw it down the stairs. It worked perfectly for a few years after that. I still think that should not have worked. + 9.2K ...
jhy10 8y ago I was running very late to school one morning and pulled into the parking lot where I saw a classmate who was in the same boat. On our way to class, we were discussing what sort of excuse we could make to not get a demerit. We discussed that to be fair, there was some police activity out on the main road to school. I don't know who joked and said We should tell her that there was a naked man running across the road but I foolishly thought it was one of those stories so audacious
Carameldelighting . 8y ago o I once convinced my uni that I had already paid my tuition and they had a computing error so i had a free semester:) + 33 ...
 8y ago In Year 11 our school had a printing credit system, where pages cost 10c each and you get X amount of credit for the year. If you run out, you have to pay real money to top it off. My friend and I were messing around and accidentally found an exploit to get free credit. We tried it again and again to see how far we could push it. Long story short we spread approximately $42 billion worth of credit throughout the school before someone caught on and they fixed it. + 825 ...
thereal304 8y ago I never bought a fake ID when I was younger, but I used an older friend's expired ID to get into bars. The only problem is that I'm 6' and overweight and he's a 5'6 scrawny Jewish kid from New York. I handed the ID to a bouncer at a bar and he looked at it and said, You look like you've gained a little weight... before looking back up at me with a grin. I immediately came back at him with What the FUCK is that supposed to mean?!? Не got really flustered and apologized before

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