Broken Office Clocks
Puzzler time.
This one is based on an old friend.
Here it is.
Back in the day, we have a friend, Tommy and I, who shall remain nameless, who works in a government facility and does very, very important work.
And one day, he's at his desk working away, reading some very technical manual when he is startled by the sound of his stomach growling.
He turns in his seat and looks at the electric clock on the wall behind him. It was one of those old clocks that's been there for like 1000 years, plugs into the wall. It is analog, if you can believe it. A big round clock on the wall with a white face and black hour and minute hands telling the time.
He looks at that old clock to see what time it is. He thinks to himself, "It's obviously too early to eat lunch. I must have forgotten to eat breakfast."
He goes back to work. A short time later, he is again startled by the growling in his stomach.
He looks at the clock another time, and he notices that, first of all, says a time later than what it did the first time he looked at it.
The second hand is sweeping. The hour hand has moved from where it was the last time he looked at it, and the minute hand is in a different position.
And as he turns back to his desk again, thinking that he must have forgotten to eat breakfast and he doesn't know how he's going to make it to lunchtime, his stomach growls a third time.
And he says the clock is broken, and yet, everything seemed to be working.
But somehow, he knows the clock is broken.
Here is a hint, the two hands are exactly 180 degrees apart, like they would be at six o'clock.
How does he know the clock is broken?
Good luck.
