Ever stuck in a real life situation that called for an adventure game solution?

[Helm]

I have! Twice! Both cases involving a taxi driver. Anyway, this is the shorter, more interesting one:

I get in this cab, driven by the world's most obnoxious cabbie. He's swearing a lot, saying really creepy things to a teenage boy that was in the cab when I entered, and generally being very irritating. At some point, a passing car from the other lane hits his rear view mirror. The mirror part dislodges and falls to the ground outside. The cabbie, swearing profusely, gets out, and hastingly notes the other car's license plate number down on a piece of paper which he then places on the dashboard. He picks up the mirror, places it back to it's place, and it seems ok. He gets back in the car and he's mumbling to himself about how he's going to "fuck that guy" 'cause he's going to call the licence plates in and "find out where he lives" and "I'll show you, you cunt" and "you'll pay 300 euros for that"  and all that. Later on, the kid in front, majorly creeped out directs the cabbie to his house, which is just off the paved road, and on a bit of a difficult gravelly path. The cabbie gets him there anyway, the kid gets out, I move to the front. As he drives off to get me to my place, he starts saying more weird creepy and insulting things about that other kid, how he's afraid to walk a few meters from the paved road so he could have avoided the rubble, and how if he was his father, he'd gladly put him over his knee and spank him good and other such stuff. I have so far said nothing, but I've decided inside that this man should not get his way today. So I tell him to drop me off a road away from my house ( just to be careful ) and tell him if you could, my leg is kinda hurt and I can't carry this big bag I had with me, if he would be so kind to carry it just outside a nearby house. He mumbles a lot, but he does. As he gets out to circle the car over to my side, I quickly pocket the piece of paper with the licence plate number on it. I pay the man, get off and the cabbie leaves. I hear the 'bling!' noise and look up over at my score gui and see I've gotten two points out of 2345504.


So one timed puzzle for me, anything of the like has happened to you?

[Andail]

When I was seven years old, in first class, I farted in the middle of a very silent lesson. It was this kind of high-pitched, squeeking sound, just loud enough for everybody to start giggling and turn their heads in my direction.

By then, I had already produced my over-sized eraser, whose rubbery tip I forcefully rubbed against the surface of my desk.

Everybody went from a joyful excitement to a let down "oh". The teacher asked what everybody had been giggling about, and one pupil raised his arm and answered "we thought Petter was farting, but he was just rubbing the eraser against the desk."

Such a moment of instant clarity and ingenouity has never again struck me.

[FruitTree]

I actually got into my house when I forgot the keys using only a broom a hairclip a magnet and a gay guy called hans.

[Ishmael]

A lot of very little things have come to me...

Such like, I need to get a light by my bed, but there's no desk or anything (one of those balcony bed thingys...), and I had one of those lights that's attached to the edge of a table, by turning a screw under it, sortof. The solution was simple, I just place the attachment piece verticaly on the border of the bad and twist the lamp arm in a very weird agnle. Nothing too special.

Another one was that I have two single level desks, and I'd like to position my computer so that the keyboard is low enough and the screen is high enough that my working pose would be as natural as possible. Well, the solution was once again simple, I just put the lower desk under the higher one and put the keyboard and mouse on that, and the screen on the higher one.

Nothing too big, that I'd remember... :

EDIT: Aaaarghcannottype...

[Evil]

Did you know you can make nunchucks out of two beer bottles and a piece of hose?

... Goddamned alley-way ninjas.

[MrColossal]

I've broken into my house many times with various sticks around my back yard...

Then my parents got new windows and they weren't as easy to break into... So then I was kinda stuck...

When I was in highschool I had a large jacket pocket full of random things, an army man, a plastic snake, a small key and lock, some crayons, various peices of paper, a long bit of string, etc... I would have totally been set if any ghost pirates tried to steal my girlfriend!

[Ozwalled]

Just yesterday I killed a high-up, creepy-looking spider with  a mop/ shoe combo. It was very satisfying. So much so that I had almost started a thread just like this.

[MrColossal]

Oh snap! That reminds me of my greatest adventure game moment!

My friend and I were painting a house and there was a small bee hive under the lip of the roof and were like "EEEK! BEES!" and we ran around a little because we're pansies...

Then I took our ladder, set it up near the hive, tied a hose with a nozzle to the top rung, aimed it at the bees, locked the nozzle to ON and JET SPRAY. We ran back to the faucet the hose was hooked up too, hid behind some garbage cans and turned the faucet on full blast. It destroyed the hell out of the hive and all the bees inside it and we were able to continue painting in the 100 degree heat and get paid kind of ok for it...

um... Wee?

[Bad Voo-doo man]

That reminds me of when my friend and I had to "break" into her house...
The puzzle was solved by:
1) Sliding the bench under the kitchen window
2) finding the hanger in the lawn and bend it to fit into the small opening
3) Stick hanger through opening to unlock window
4) Push window open
5) Climb through
6) Fall face first into a bowl of dog food on the Kitchen floor

[BerserkerTails]

One time, this hacker guy stole a big bunch of my friends' Hotmail accounts, changing the password and secret question, etc... He didn't get mine, but he made one mistake:

He stole my grilfriend's account.

For the next two hours, my girlfriend talked to him, befriended him, and eventually got the password he changed her account to. Thing was, it was the same password that he changed all my friends' accounts too, so I gave them all the password, and they all got their accounts back.

The way my girlfriend described the conversation with the hacker sounded very "dialog-puzzlish" to me. Like, from a LucasArts game or something.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

SOmetimes I really wish my life WAS like an adventure game. That way I could browse for a walkthrough and be done with it.

[Sam.]

mayb that should be an AGS challenge. Live for one whole day like it is an an adventure game.

[Helm]

Or maybe not?

[Andail]

Let's not and say we did

[Phoenix]

Did I tell you the story when I found a wardrobe in my bedroom and I ended up in another world

[DoorKnobHandle]

no, but please feel free to... ^^

[Phoenix]

I met a old fart, worked in McSwamplins and traveled through time all in a days' work 

[Ali]

My girlfriend once dropped a key out of a window and it landed on the roof below.

We made a fishing rod out of a Bug catcher, sellotape, a weight and a bent paperclip.

Needless to say, we were victorious!

[Paper Carnival]

I remember when my bro locked himself in his bedroom. We needed something to break the glass above the door so we could transfer items to each other. In the end we used a couple of screwdrivers and gained new items such as screws and the door handle. We had to remove it with the little screwdriver and then use the bigger screwdriver as handle. The problem was that the door is stuck on the floor and you have to push it hard to open it, so we needed one person to open it and the other to push on the right time. My brother opened it and I pushed the same time, and so we won.

One other time I saved two girls who got themselves stuck in the guys' bathrooms (don't ask me what they were doing there) because the door handle magically disappeared. I used a pair of scissors and past experience to open the door. But I didn't even get a thank you, because they started fighting about whose fault it was they were in there.

I'm sure there were other cases as well, but that's all I can remember for now

[Haddas]

I know the "find key to open door" puzzles ALL too well =_=