I was once pulled over by a traffic police here in India. I was not carrying my license and that means around 200 bucks (Rs) in bribe. To get out of paying brib

I was once pulled over by a traffic police here in India. I was not carrying my license and that means around 200 bucks (Rs) in bribe. To get out of paying bribe I acted that I am dialing a number and speaking to a senior police officer (I knew one name who was my friend's uncle) and complaining to him about the officer who pulled me over. Officer apologized and I didnt have to pay the bribe. ---------- When I was in college we had only one printer (dot-matrix) to take print-outs of our submissions. Towards end of semester there always was a long waiting line to get print-outs done and no one owned printer (very few owned computers). So I built a book-keeping s/w and scheduling s/w along with library of assignments. IT had a database system built using Cobol which will take roll number and name of a students replace it at appropriate places in the source code and print out copies. All we needed to do was make sure the printer always had paper rolls and entire printing, which used to take days, was done in matter of hours. I was told the s/w was still in use in the college. PS - I never encouraged copying of grade work though, always wrote my own programs even though attached which ever one I got to file.