Sep 07, 2001
RAY: This is another in the series of my "driving back and forth to work" puzzlers. To get home, I wind my way through the back streets of Cambridge, going through various neighborhoods, some of which have businesses of one kind of another: industrial buildings, little factories, warehouses or office buildings and the like.
There's one building I pass every day that makes me chuckle. This building bears the name of the enterprise contained within its walls. I laugh because its name seems incongruous with the building.
There are many other buildings just like this one. And, as a matter of fact, if you went into this building to ask for a demonstration of the product they sell...
TOM: They wouldn't be able to give you one.
RAY: Right! However, if they took you to a building, perhaps next door or a few doors down, they could easily give you a demonstration of the product that they sell.
Here's a hint: I can safely say that each and every one of us has used the product that they sell.
TOM: You should have left that part out.
RAY: I should have left that out, huh?
RAY: Well, what's unique about this building is that it's a one-story building. And the reason they can't demonstrate the product that they sell in this one-story building is that they sell elevators. It is the ABC Elevator Company. And every time I see it, I say, "What a stupid building to have chosen." And, of course, the other answer is they could be selling escalators. So, anyway, do we have a winner ...
TOM: The winner is Neil Judell from Waltham, Massachusetts. Hey, right up the street.
