"I'm clueless, I have no idea."
There I was, trying to put together the portable stage for my daughter's fashion show. I had 8 stage bases, each of which consisted of a 103" steel support, with a 46" support bar hinged to each end. It was sort of like a U, with the bottom part of the U being the longest.
But my problem was that the flat stage pieces themselves were only 96" long, by 48" wide.
How in the world was I supposed to make the 103" supports go into the holes if the stage was only 96" long?
I checked, three times, to see if the long support was adjustable in any way. Nope.
I asked 4 different people to look at it, none had any idea.
We had become convinced that we had the wrong set of bases for this stage top. And dress rehearsal was coming up in about an hour.
So, I did what I oftentimes do when faced with an insurmountable problem -
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I called a kid.
This time it was Peter. 18 years old. Bright and helpful. My daughter's first date. Good guy.
15 minutes later, he walked in grabbed one of the supports and changed it from a U shape into a Z. The top popped on immediately, the rest of the stage was up in 10 minutes.
I had literally spent almost 2 hours trying to solve a seemingly insurmountable problem. Peter solved it in 20 seconds.
What happened?
Someone who saw things differently, who had a basis of knowledge that I don't have, and who looks at the world through a different set of eyes, saw the problem and immediately solved it.
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