Question of the Day

[ayoub]

What do you usually do when nothing works?

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Fix it, in order of priority...

Comments

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

That's basically my whole life you just described.

[smwright.livejournal.com]

I've never had anyone else fix things for me. Thus, your answer works as well as any. There are, of course, things I cannot fix. For those, I call someone who can (plumber, electrician, etc.).

[cerebralpig.livejournal.com]

Take a break... then try again.

[amante-donne.livejournal.com]

swear, curse and throw my toys out of the pram.

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

Grab some Ben & Jerry's and a spoon and head back to bed.

[indigobluejelly.livejournal.com]

Would you please stop answering these questions for me.

k thanks!

;)

[chiropteraclan.livejournal.com]

Step back to get a better look at what is going on, decide new approaches, get in there and get it fixed based on priority (yeah, I know...like your answer). If I figure out that fixing it is out of my skill set, then get some help--this actually the step I have the most trouble with. The asking for help bit.

[1jodie.livejournal.com]

take a break, think about it, and try, try again.

[libra-dragon.livejournal.com]

One extreme or the other. I either think clearly and try to fix it or if I am in a mood I just freak out and cry.

[gillian16.livejournal.com]

Kick it. ;o)

[corporatebeach.livejournal.com]

crawl back in bed.

[beatzz.livejournal.com]

Huh... Yeah, y'know I realized how big of a baby I am when I thought, 'I cry.'

And it's true. I break down. Then I regroup. I dunno why the breakdown is necessary for the regrouping for me.

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

Yep... yep.

[melissa-maples.livejournal.com]

You forgot the ice cream. *hands you a spoon*

Or I could make a pitcher of daquiris— I don't think there's a broken situation in existence that cocktails in bed can't fix.

[the-ravyn.livejournal.com]

Take a deep breath...and try, try again.

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

BFH

[ktsies2.livejournal.com]

Take a second to think about the situation (this step of course comes after getting mighty frustrated) and see what I can do to fix the situation. If I can't do it myself, call in the reinforcements and figure that there's no point in being mad or frustrated, so my good mood returns and I'm ready to go.

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

Step away from it for a little while; do something else and then come back to it.

[cmerun12.livejournal.com]

?

My Pattern.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

The example is how I learned to walk as a baby. What was true then is the same now. My creative process works something like this:

Decide to do something extraordinary. (I got up one day and just started running before I ever walked.)

Try hard. (Ran for all it was worth, hit wall, bounced off, landed hard on my ass.)

Try harder. (Got up and ran in another direction.)

Get frustrated. (Hit another wall... hey, who said there could be four of them?)

Still try. (Get up and run into another direction, miss door, fall down.)

Get so frustrated I have a tantrum and quit. (Sit down in a huff, cry, bitch, whine stupidly about wanting to die because I can't succeed at anything. Call a fuck-it and stop trying because I'll never do anything right.)

This lets the smart dude in the back of my mind find a solution without my pesky conscious mind being all up his ass. He observes and refuses to budge until a remarkable solution is all figured out. (Analyzes walls, openings, furniture, doors, ceiling, etc.)

Then, finally still, I come at it from another dimensional angle. (Instead of walking, I looked up one day and started climbing the couch to get into the windows. From there, I climbed trees.)

And get a better result from the entire frustrating process. (Then, I learned how to walk, and when I did, it was with grace and poise, because in learning how to climb, I had to learn balance.)

And there ya go. Genius at work.

[hippie-geisha.livejournal.com]

I fix what I can by myself. If it's something I can work around, I do. If it's something I can't fix myself or work around, I get help.

[empatia.livejournal.com]

COFFEE BREAK!! Then figure out a resonable solution while I'm laughing about how nothing else could go wrong so I might as well enjoy my coffee :)

[bettybaker.livejournal.com]

I tend to figure out which problem I'm willing to try fixing, and then delegate the rest. Delegate, delegate, delegate, and when all else fails, truncate. *nod nod*

[gsharper13.livejournal.com]

BFH= Big Fu**ing Hammer. I.E. Hammertime!

[gsharper13.livejournal.com]

Turn the air around me blue for about 20 minutes. Go outside and have a cigarette, calm down. Start attacking it in a different direction by picking off 1 symptom at a time. Sooner or later have killed all the problems. I win! Whoot!

[donnickcottage.livejournal.com]

Big F"rea"king Hammer.

[castlelady.livejournal.com]

Something always works!

Re: My Pattern.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LMAO!

I could picture you doing that ;)

:D

[dishapeaches.livejournal.com]

Stamp my foot and pout and hope a man will fix it for me.


LOL! j/k!

Re: My Pattern.

[fox-bard.livejournal.com]

I did the same thing when it came to potty training. It pissed me off so much that I would pull the diapers out of the box and go piss in that. ^___^

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Ouch...

I hope you have a good long time where everything just works, soon...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

I learnt a long time ago that panic doesn't help...

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Excellent plan! :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

:D

;)

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

YAY for percussive maintenance! :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

That works :D

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yeah... like I'm going to believe that!

:D

[bronxelf-ag001.livejournal.com]

People have been saying this to me my whole life. It's not that I don't appreciate the sentiment. It's that it has *never once* even approached happening, and I know better than to believe that anything is coming to "balance things out". It isn't.

[heardthatnoise.livejournal.com]

Grumble.
Talk to people about it.
Approach problem(s) from a different angle.

[smwright.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't. There's also my mum's philosophy. If it's already broken, then there's really little harm in attempting the repair yourself. :P

[katamphigorical.livejournal.com]

Scrap the whole damn thing and build something new.


...If i get ambitious, that is.

[eternalxwhisper.livejournal.com]

Kick the shit out of it and then try and fix it.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Percussive maintenance works... :D