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Postmaster Peg

Puzzler time. This is a postal puzzler. Here we go.

Peg the postmaster planned to take Friday off for a long weekend. And she left Bob the mailman in charge of her office for the day. 

She said, "Use my desk and telephone but don't use my private bathroom, whatever you do."

So, Bob knew that there was no way she could find out if he did use it, and it was such a long way to the men's room at the other end of the building. Besides, he was careful to put the seat down when he was done.

Monday morning comes and Peg is back at work. She went into her office and then came out in two minutes. She called Bob to her office and informed him that since he couldn't follow orders, his chance for promotion was gone. He would never become a postmaster. And he is walking a mail route still, to this day.

How could she have known that he used her private restroom?

Good luck.

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Remember last week's puzzler?

Chevy S-10

This one was sent in by a loyal listener years ago. We are bringing it back. This listener was from Arkansas. Here we go.

This is how it went. 

"Years ago, my father and I set out on a trip to Oklahoma City from our home in Arkansas. At the time we were driving his brand new Chevy S-10 pickup. My father drove the truck and I rode shotgun. It was mid-July. And all was well until around 7:30 p.m. That's when my father noticed that the check engine lamp was just beginning to glow very faintly.

Dad asked me what the problem was and I didn't know. Anyway, I looked over the other instruments and everything seemed to be fine. So we drove on. And as we did the check engine light got brighter. 

Being a new vehicle we pulled over and raised the hood to check things out. All the engine vitals looked good. Everything seemed okay. And the lamp was now out when we pulled over. The light went out when we were pulled over. So we closed the hood and, got back inside and started driving and noticed the check engine light was back on. So, we figured it was probably okay, as the truck was new. 

We drove on. And as we neared Oklahoma City, the lamp dimmed and went out completely.

Now, there was never anything wrong with the truck at all. Everything was actually perfect with this brand new truck. The light had seemingly come on for no reason at all."

So the puzzler this week is, what was happening? What was making the check engine light come on if there was not anything wrong with this engine and there was nothing wrong with the light itself?

So what was it?

Find out here »
Congratulations to this week's
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Todd Strother

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