Random Thought Thread

True story random thought:

I took a statistics class in school but didn't do very well and was at risk of having to take it over again. After the final exam, I went and spoke to the professor at his office and, jokingly, threatened him with extreme physical violence. But, being a foreigner, he didn't really understand it was joke. And it was a really dumb poorly done joke.

...but anyway I passed, with a C - -
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
True story random thought:

I took a statistics class in school but didn't do very well and was at risk of having to take it over again. After the final exam, I went and spoke to the professor at his office and, jokingly, threatened him with extreme physical violence. But, being a foreigner, he didn't really understand it was joke. And it was a really dumb poorly done joke.

...but anyway I passed, with a C - -
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I have a somewhat similar story...

Back at university I found myself in a state of mind probably not unlike a certain friend of ours who ate the candy...but only more extreme.

In any case, I had an astronomy final the following morning and my brain was entirely shot.

There was no way I was going to pass the exam, so being the person I am, when I got to the question about calculating how long the universe as we knew it would last before its demise, I put down "20 minutes and I'm getting out of here while I can".

I then wrote that I should receive a passing grade because the answers on my exam would be the most entertaining the T.A. who was grading the test would read...and for that I should be rewarded.

I passed.

(My university career was filled with a handful of such misadventures...such as when I plead insanity to a parking violation. I always wondered if that one would come back to haunt me in later years.)
 
Richard338 said:
I got stopped on my motorcycle going 140 kph in a 100 kph zone. The cop was nice and wrote it up as 104 kph. I repaid his kindness by going before a magistrate and saying "c'mon, I was on a motorcycle trying to hold the speed limit with all that vibration", and got it thrown out.
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I got stopped (twice) in AZ coming out of Monument Valley on the way to CO on a motorcycle trip with my wife riding pillion.

The trooper who stopped us was a really nice but garrulous fella, and when he found out that I was LE, kept us there for 20 minutes or so shooting the shit. (Even gave me some trinkets.)

When he was done and we were going to head out, I said to him "Do you have any idea how fast I have to go now to make up the time we lost?"

He sorta laughed.
 
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