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Also the thing where you try and show the problem to any other person and it starts working just to make you look dumb. Me and my SO do that all the time: "This thing isn't working, I know you don't know how to fix it but can you come over and look at it not working so it'll work?" And I'd say at least 50% of the time it does lol
Doing the same thing slower (because you're explaining what you're doing) sometimes prevents the problem from happening.
Things that aren't working for a user sometimes work for me because I wait a bit longer between steps, e.g. waiting for the services/background-programs to finish loading instead of immediately clicking something on the desktop/panel 5 times the moment it shows up.
On the flip side, any time you want to show somebody something that should be working and you suddenly see an error message you've never seen before.
I've joked that some computers just like having someone else watch (kinky).