May 16, 2023
Time for a puzzler. This is not new, at all. This one is probably also stolen, but you can't prove it... Ha!
This is a very short one, from a long time ago.
It was a beautiful sunny summer afternoon in 1958. And I was driving my new car.
I came to an intersection and stopped, and there on the sidewalk stood a would-be pedestrian waiting to cross the street.
He noticed that I had stopped. I remained where I was at the intersection. He stepped off the sidewalk and walked right into the right front fender of my car.
Explain the circumstances surrounding this curious behavior.
Best of luck.
Okay all. We have the answer to this little puzzler.
It is pretty simple really.
It was a beautiful sunny summer afternoon in 1958. And I was driving my new car. I stopped at a stoplight, and a pedestrian noticed I had stopped.
Then he stepped off the sidewalk and walked right into the front right fender of my car.
What happened here?
Well, it was 1958. And the car I was driving was a brand new VW Bug. And as we all know, the VW Bugs had the engine in the back, and the trunk space in the front.
And the pedestrian was blind. So, he was used to hearing the engine in the front of the car. He heard mine, assumed the car was a few feet back from where it was, and he walked right into my car.
This would not happen these days, for sure.
