Chrome Plated
This is not new. Not automotive in nature, but still a good little puzzler. This one was inspired by a letter we got years ago.
Here goes.
Years ago, I took my boys to this Cub Scout rally at this air force base. It was held on a large air force base which had a civilian air field attached to it. This was someplace in Massachusetts. And this air field had a hangar. And airplane hangar, where they keep planes when not in use. There were all these planes there. Little ones, bigger ones. You know, Piper, Cessna... all those types.
All of them were propeller driven planes. And while I was looking at them, I noticed that they all had a little spinner right in the center of the propeller. That little cone shaped thing. I noticed that some of them are painted. Some of them are not painted, and some of them are chrome plated.
My boy goes, "Yeah, if you notice, there is a reason some of them are chrome plated..."
And I said, "Huh?"
He knew the answer. This is another case where the kid surpasses his father in intelligence. And he was just a boy then, so that should tell you something about me! Kids get taller than you, smarter than you, stronger than you... That is just the way of things.
