What's the Simplest Thing it could be?
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (326093)
Rockingham, Australia
January 18, 2017 5:03pm CST
How do you approach problems of a physical kind? Do you regard it as a challenge and wade right in, sleeves rolled up and fists bunched?
I've just read a post by @xFiacre about a nurse trying to take the pulse of a patient only to find out the patient had passed away and it brought to mind the first thing I say when something goes wrong with an appliance or somesuch here. The question I ask is 'what is the simplest thing it could be?' My query wasn't always appreciated but so often a solution has been something simple that we both tend to ask it now.
Once we were trying to put together a wooden chair which came as a flatpack. There were four of these chairs and the first one we tried to put together had actually been packed incorrectly. The rest went together like a dream but we had no end of trouble with the first one before giving up on it and trying the next.
So I'm wondering – what has been a problem to you and the solution has been something really simple? I guess the obvious one for us is something not going and a plug having come out of an electrical socket. Other times the fault hasn't been with an appliance but maybe the switch or cord we've plugged into.
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15 responses
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
18 Jan 17
Always look for the simple answer first! When it comes to appliances not working, is it unplugged?
When it comes to a human not feeling well, are they dehydrated?
Keep it simple.
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@JudyEv (326093)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Jan 17
The dehydration is a good one. I rarely drink as much as I should.
@toniganzon (72279)
• Philippines
18 Jan 17
This reminded me of my French friend. I was talking to him then other night and he was having all sorts of problem in approaching things and asked for my advice. I told him that he should approach it in the simplest way. Always go back to the basic. Because of how life is right now, people tend to forget the basics and just use the complicated way.
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@JudyEv (326093)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Jan 17
It can be embarrassing can't it? Especially if someone else comes along, flicks a switch and everything works again.
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
18 Jan 17
right, when I had to pinch hit in tech support, which I was NOT trained for or good at,I'd start with is it plugged in and turned on?
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@noni1959 (9883)
• United States
18 Jan 17
I've had silly simple moments. I can't think of many though I know there are there. One is when my cheap dollar store glasses broke and I was trying to figure how to tape until I could get another cheap pair and opened my drawer to get a pair of scissors. There was super glue. Simple and easy.
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@JudyEv (326093)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Jan 17
Super glue is a pretty good 'fix' in many cases, isn't it?
@teamfreak16 (43420)
• Denver, Colorado
19 Jan 17
I don't think that way, simply because I'm not handy at all and when I try to fix something, I usually end up making it worse. Maybe I should start thinking that way.
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@JudyEv (326093)
• Rockingham, Australia
19 Jan 17
@teamfreak16 It's a wise man who knows he's beaten BEFORE he's beaten. Many of us don't. 
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@teamfreak16 (43420)
• Denver, Colorado
19 Jan 17
@JudyEv - Oh, believe me, I do.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
19 Jan 17
Trying to download the Adobe Flash Player its giving me a lot of problems but I am getting there. Its like trying to figure out Wordpress and others before they were so easy now they are the reverse.
However I don´t give up so tomorrow I will be back to download that Adobe Flash and make it stay put. Just an example.
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@Freelanzer (10744)
• Canada
19 Jan 17
Love the bench looks like wood or stone. Most of the physical challenges are usually left to my other half simply because he is better at it than I am
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
19 Jan 17
I have found that Duct Tape solves most problems @JudyEv . Kids yelling; duct tape. Wire hanging from the ceiling; duct tape. Husband stealing the remote; duct tape the remote to your chair. Cat hair all over the furniture; duct tape.
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@cahaya1983 (11121)
• Malaysia
19 Jan 17
Yes! I put my phone to charge and came back only to see it was still not charged - turned out that I had forgotten to press the switch.
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