Two Tokens

Time for the puzzler for this week.

Here we go.

We used this one many, many years ago.

A blind man enters the subway by walking down the stairs with the assistance of his seeing-eye dog.

When he gets to the bottom of the stairs, there is a cage behind which is sitting a woman who's the token vendor. That is how long ago this was, because they have not used tokens in decades... And there's a sign there that says, "Tokens, 40 cents."

The blind man reaches into his pocket and through the slit in the cage he hands the woman a dollar.

No words are spoken. She has never seen him before. They don't know each other at all. She hands him two tokens and 20 cents change. We know this puzzler is old because you can't ride the subway for 40 cents anywhere in the world.

The puzzler question is very simple, how did she know he wanted two tokens?

Good luck.

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Common Tool

Puzzler time.

Here it is. This one is an oldie.

Back in the day, a soldier returned to his base to find his golf clubs had been removed from the trunk of his vintage 1960's Ford.

After complaining around the base, he learned that this crime had been repeatedly happening with older Fords, and only older Fords, parked in the base parking lot while the car owners were on military duty. This was before keyfobs, so that is how long ago this was. It was happening to only Fords that used actual keys.

No damage have been reported to the cars. Only thefts. So our soldiers deduced that someone must have had a set of master keys to let themselves into the older cars parked in the lot.

And the puzzler question is this.

What did he do to prevent this burglary from happening to him again. He didn't spend any money. It only a few minutes with a common tool.