We all experience problems on pretty much a daily basis.  From car trouble to health issues, tech devices messing up to weather damaging your property, these things are pretty much unavoidable and all you can really do is grin and bear it while trying to work on a solution.

Sometimes the simplest solution is the one that actually works and it can even leave in you in disbelief. From pretending to be someone else on a phonecall to picking up a laptop and dropping it, here are some dumb-sounding solutions that actually saved the day.