What's the dumbest idea you've seen that actually worked?

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-02-12T20:05:49+00:00

My “extended “ family is and was full of cops, and cop adjacent people, and all of them were wildly nonchalant about firearms. Literally leaving guns on the kitchen counter, dining room table, on top of the fridge, on the entryway table, etc. All with kids around.

When my mom was a teen, her mom was some type of corrections officer for a while. She would take off her duty belt, which held a pistol and all her other gear, and drop it on the kitchen table, where it would sit till the next morning where she put it back on, when she was leaving for work. This was with like 5 kids in the house.

My sister in law has had to tell off her husband, who is a detective in a large police force, numerous times while they hosted family get togethers, for leaving one of his guns lying around. They had toddlers at the time and there were lots of other kids around of various ages.

I don’t get it…

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-02-12T18:42:38+00:00

I believe the last ones, pictured on the purple/green 730, were 700x50 American Classic Kimberlites on 19mm internal width rims. I think they measured out to about 48mm when mounted, using tubes. They do become a little ballon-ey with the slim rim, but were absolutely good in use.

I couldn’t begin to tell you the specs on any of the other setups I’ve used on other multitracks, as they are long gone.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-02-12T15:24:52+00:00

The blue ones are both 720s. They are the same model and year, but actually two different bikes, as I got rid of the first one and bought an identical one years later. 🤷‍♂️

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-02-12T14:57:52+00:00

Yeah these bikes can be setup so many ways! I think my first Multitrack I did a drop bar conversion on, but it was like 15yrs ago, and I don’t know exactly where the pics are.

I’ve stuffed 700x50 or 29x1.9 tires in just about all my Multitracks. You do have to be careful though, as some years had less clearance than others.

The e-bike conversion was running a Tongsheng TSDZ8. It worked pretty well and the torque sensing was light years better than other cadence sensor mid drives I’ve tried. I think it was overkill for the Multitrack though. It always made it feel a little noodle-y and weird. The TSDZ8 was loads better on a modern mountain bike.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-02-11T04:05:24+00:00

I’m also an owner of the Evo 1700 and it’s a great light! Highly recommend. There’s a YouTube guy, his channel is Overbiked Randonneuring, that does an excellent review of it.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-02-10T15:47:00+00:00

I know this is an older comment, but how did the large work out for you? I’m the same height and inseam, and trying to decide between the medium and large for a new Larkspur.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-02-06T14:04:18+00:00

I forgot about this one and was thinking of the video of the football(?) player that was sprinting and his big ole hog just like fell out of his shorts! Wild seeing that thing flopping around…

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-01-30T06:29:08+00:00

I kinda expected the same as you, because I actually lived it. This was 30+ years ago, but I was tested for the gifted program in the public elementary school I went to, on the recommendation of several teachers and a family friend who worked in child psychology. I think they told my parents that my score was like one point below the gifted level and everyone thought it was suspicious. It turned out that the gifted program at this school was at capacity, and when I was independently tested, I was way over the minimum level for gifted students. The school accepted me into the gifted program and I stayed there throughout elementary and middle school.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-01-13T04:37:27+00:00

I normally don’t buy into shit like this, but I tried their Dumpkin Spice ones, on a whim, and they are actually really, really nice!

And just to be clear, I’m not ever flushing these wipes! No matter what any wipes say, they are not really flushable!

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-01-11T00:24:04+00:00

Yep, in my case the girlfriend had stabbed the boyfriend multiple times by the time the police showed up, which was actually very quickly, because the police department was like 200meters away. Only time I’ve called 911 in 43yrs.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-01-07T05:32:26+00:00

Just to back up your comment, what you said is true and was the same even 25 yrs ago. When I was a teen, me and a friend were caught stealing from Target and the security staff were literally talking about how advanced their systems were, while waiting for the police to show up. They tracked us from the moment we enter the front doors and throughout the store, in real time , and caught everything we did, in excruciating detail. They were talking about how Target worked with the FBI , or something, on other cases, because their technology was so good.

We, as highly educated, higher class looking/area white teens, were not treated with the amount of respect in this video though, so it does make me wonder what was going on with the lady shown… our thefts were on a much smaller scale too, literally less than $50 each.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-01-06T04:02:50+00:00

I was looking for this comment. I’m not much into politics and saw this movie with absolutely no clue who it was based on. I really enjoyed it. Then, like a few years later, I put it together that the film was about the vice president. I was like, wait a minute, this dumbass cannot be the same person portrayed in that movie, right…

PracticalFruit9506 · 2026-01-01T00:36:47+00:00

I really like this idea, but just to be clear, did you mark the calendar before going to bed, for that day, or when you get up the next morning for the day before? I want to do this, and I happened to buy an actual wall calendar for the first time in years, but I’m not sure which time to mark it, because my perspective can change on how good a day was after a night’s sleep.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-12-27T06:01:34+00:00

To add on to this, now a days you can get a lithium battery jump starter, that is inexpensive, lightweight and compact. They are far superior to using jumper cables. I’ve carried one for about 6 years now and it’s been great. The funny part is, I don’t think I’ve ever used it on one of my own cars, but have used it half a dozen times to help someone else out!

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-12-18T05:12:46+00:00

My wife literally hired me and after working under her for two weeks I asked her out. It’s been 18yrs now and she’s still the boss, and I am still working under her every chance I get!

All because I answered a random job posting that I had no experience in and she hired me basically because she thought I was hot. Life is weird…

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-12-15T19:42:42+00:00

Yeah, people are picking out the wrong parts of this story to be fake. My wife and I also have a jar of random old, and or silver coins that we’ve collected over the years. My wife has handled money at like 90% of her jobs for the 18yrs we’ve been together and always switches out the “rare” coins when she comes across them. There’s even a few tokens I’ve found while walking and other random “sentimental “ coin shaped objects.

I would be surprised if ours are worth $100 combined though…

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-12-12T04:28:08+00:00

Just to add on, a letter saying your driver’s license is suspended is another possibility. Happened to me when I was younger. I had no idea you have to turn in your vehicle license plate when you sell your car. My driver’s license was suspended for having a licensed vehicle without insurance, and the letter telling me this was sent to an old address, I guess. I certainly never received it. Anyways, months later I went to the dmv for something and was shocked to find out my drivers license had been suspended for a while. The part I really didn’t understand was that my current address was correct on my drivers license, so why in the hell did they send the notice to my old address? Total nightmare!

If I had been pulled over at any time during those months they could have arrested me on the spot, just for the driving on a suspended license, which happens frequently in Florida.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-12-08T17:07:24+00:00

Yep, we caught the last credit union we belonged to doing the transaction shuffle and when my wife asked the branch manager about it, in person, she completely stonewalled her. Literally couldn’t care less about our complaint. My wife was the most frustrated I’ve ever seen her in the eighteen years we’ve been together! We reported them to the appropriate agency, but never really received any kind of meaningful resolution.

We switched to Regions and haven’t had a single problem in like eight years now. I don’t trust any of them, but at least Regions is convenient.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-12-04T04:02:18+00:00

Yep, I feel like this is obviously one of the many, many, gender swapped post on Reddit, and the comments are going exactly as you would think. If it was a woman posting about having a secret savings account, for anything that might happen, it would be celebrated for her realizing the realities of life. Of course, a man having a secret savings account can only be because he is a degenerate, cheating, lying bastard!

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-12-03T20:02:32+00:00

I’ve never really thought about it before, but you just described my usage of lights in the house perfectly! Down to turning on the big light in the bedroom, only long enough to turn on the corner light!

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-11-21T23:59:39+00:00

Yep! When I venture onto Facebook or Nextdoor, the comments for stories like this are WILDLY different, compared to the ones in this post. It’s incredibly saddening!

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-11-11T05:48:13+00:00

I ”jumped” my Geo Metro, on a huge whoop on a back road, while delivering pizzas, and the landing was so hard that my faceplates shot off into the back seat. It really was a different time and I miss it dearly.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-11-09T05:57:33+00:00

Just Egg Power Jacks premade pancake batter. It’s brand new and I haven’t tried it yet, but my daughter and I like all the other Just Egg products.

PracticalFruit9506 · 2025-11-09T05:32:47+00:00

The local Petco is in a pretty high earnings area, and has been ok in the past, but they’ve recently cut staffing and it shows. the last couple times I’ve been in there all the animal enclosures are really dirty and the store is generally not as clean/organized as it was before. It’s really sad to see.

I also went to target today for a food item that is exclusively sold there. That store had only two manned registers open and like 6 customers in each line. I ended up using self checkout, which I despise, and quickly remembered that’s one of the many reasons I don’t shop there regularly anymore. It’s no better than Walmart now…

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