The Teacher's Car
Time for the new puzzler.
This puzzler is barely automotive. Here it is.
A woman and her husband decide to go shopping one Saturday for a used car.
So they go to the neighborhood used car dealer, and a young man is showing them around the parking lot.
He's showing them various cars, and they don't seem to be really excited about any one of them.
And finally, he says, "Oh, how can I have forgotten this? I have just the car for you, I know you're going to love it."
And he takes them over to this late model Japanese car. And he says, "You're not going to believe this. But this car belonged to my fourth grade teacher, Miss Johnson, and it's a wonderful car, she treated it very well. Had all the service done here. And interestingly, she never left town with the car. All she ever did with the car was she drove from home to school and back. And on Sundays, she went to church and never used the car on Saturdays."
And they look over the car and it looks magnificent. And so the woman asks the obvious question, "Why did Miss Johnson sell the car?"
And he says, "Well, you know, as luck would have it, she was called out of town on very short notice to care for a sick relative in the Midwest someplace, so she came in here last week and sold us the car. And of course, it's your good fortune that it's here, because this is a wonderful car."
So the woman gets in behind the wheel and starts up the engine and it sounds fine. And the husband sits in the passenger seat, and they fiddle with the controls on the dashboard, tthey try the wipers, blow the horn, look around the car, and the husband says, "Geez, hon, I think we ought to get it, and it's such a cute color, too."
And the woman turns off the car, turns to her husband and says, "I don't think so. He is lying to us."
And the question is, how did she know that?
Good luck.
