It's a screen shot not brain surgery...

You can tell a lot about who a person is and how they view the world by the way they solve problems they are given. 

There was an e-mail from a globaliazation manager today asking about how to take a screen shot of a drop down menu in a window. There were a couple of solutions to this question. From a Senior App Developer it was a home brew app built in VC 6.0. A Lead Program Manager suggested a small grassroots screen capture app. Another Product Designer thought of using One Note or an anteque app that is was part of VB 6. Myself I suggested that they select the drop down menu they wanted and hit the "print screen" key on the key board and drop it into their graphic editor of choice.

Now I like to think that my solution was the best. It wasn't. It was the most obvious and simple answer to the problem, but that's just the Taoist in me. All the answers including my own, did lacked one key thing though. We all answered based on what would do to solve the problem but forgot to ask the manger in question what their requirements were, and what they needed it for.