When Creativity Leads to New Rules
Some Redditors have related the times they made mistakes or did something so outrageous that new rules were put in place so that others would not follow in their footsteps! Keep reading to see what you should avoid, unless you want to change the rules about the way things are done.
Silence Ain’t Always Golden!
“No sign language during silent lunch punishment”. My lunch period was so loud that we got put on silent lunch for over a month straight. I knew the perfect solution.
I decided the only clear solution was to teach my entire table sign language so we could still talk without getting in trouble. Apparently, it was “unfair” to the kids who didn’t know how to sign, so we had to stop.
Story credit: Reddit / Future-unperson
Power Ranger Gets A Military Discharge
A friend of mine in an army school found out the regulations never stated what color the bed sheets for a bed made for inspection had to be in. So this mad man went crazy.
He bought Power Ranger sheets and made the perfect regulation bed.
I have never seen so many sergeants lose their cool but be unable to do anything since the regulations were perfectly followed. Needless to say the next year they were updated to state sheets must be plain white.
Story credit: Reddit / Cueball-2329
Brains Win Free Pizza
Back in the day, a radio station near me had a weekly trivia contest. The prize was a free pizza and a movie rental. Somehow my mom hit upon the most genius idea. She figured out which book they were using for the trivia questions, and then she bought it and memorized all the answers.
Each week we would call in immediately. Sometimes we were the first but even if we weren’t, it didn’t matter because other people were usually just guessing.
We won almost every time. Even though we changed up who would actually make the call, they eventually figured out we were all from the same household. So they made it a rule that you couldn’t win if your family had already won in the last month or whatever.
Up until then, we enjoyed a lot of free pizzas. Story credit: Reddit / CaHot vendar
Hot Hotel Croissant Troubles
I put a croissant in one of those hotel toasters. It soon became engulfed in flames and needed extinguishing. The next day at breakfast they made a sign that said, “If you’d like your croissant toasted, please ask a member of staff”.
Story credit: Reddit / Thatbitchlol