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The Scary Fiat
Time for the new puzzler.
Here it is.
Years ago, this happened. Due to some unusual shuffling of cars, my brother-in-law's car wound up in Tommy's possession, and he showed up at the garage to pick up his car and left me a car to drive home.
And I was in the middle of something, and I said to Alex, "Just throw the keys in my pocket."
My hands were too greasy to even touch the keys.
So he does this. And then he leaves.
Hours later, I wash up, lock up the shop and go outside to discover waiting for me at the curb is an old Fiat.
I began to drive it home, and while I was driving I started to have an appreciation for the reverence that Tommy had for his Dodge Dart. Because compared to the Dart, this old Fiat was such a hopeless piece of garbage.
I mean, this thing wheezed and swerved. It did everything imaginable to make a scary ride home. My heart was in my throat the entire time, to say nothing of the fact that my few remaining brain cells were eradicated by the smell of
gasoline.
I had the top up, so I could hear everything in the engine. Every single click and misfire. It was not a good ride home.
So, after a crazy ride home, I finally arrive. I throw the keys on the kitchen table and go to sleep.
I guess, because I was overwhelmed by the gasoline fumes, I had a weird dream. And in this dream, I saw Tommy driving a spiffy, little convertible. And the license plate of this convertible said, Weight. Not W, A, I T, but W, E, I, G, H, T.
And I thought, "What kind of a car would have this license plate?"
And that is the puzzler question.
What kind of a car would that a license plate that says WEIGHT?
Good luck!
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The Full Yard
Here it is.
A guy buys a house. The house was perfect. Just what he wanted. So he bought it.
But as luck would have it, the entire back yard was just dirt. Which is not great.
He was planning on having a big 4th of July celebration.
So he goes to the local nursery, and he says to the guy, "Look, I've got to buy some grass. Because it's almost June 1, and I've got to have this party on 4th of July weekend. I want a yard full of grass."
They tell him to get sod. That's too expensive. So they talk about grass and different seeds. They talk over various options.
And then finally, the fellow at the nursery says, "Hey, we have this new product. It just came in a few months ago. You may be interested in it. It's a plug of grass that's about the size of your fist."
"What does it do?" the guy asks.
"You plant this in your lawn in a central location, and every day it doubles in size. Let's see how many you would need."
So he asks the owner of the house to draw a little picture of his backyard with the dimensions. And he looks over the diagram and does the math. And then he says, "Okay, you only need one."
The customer says, "Even if I plant this thing like June 1, by June 30, I'll have a lawn?"
The guy says, "According to my calculations, that is correct."
The customer says, "Great, that's what I'll do then."
The guy says, "One more thing. Then what you have to do is, once the lawn is in place, you have to spray it with this arrester spray so it doesn't continue to grow up the side of your house or consume your car in the driveway. You have to stop the growth with this spray."
The customer says, "You sure you did the math correctly?"
The guy says, "Listen, plant one of these and in 30 days, you'll have a full lawn in your backyard."
The customer says, "Okay great. But just to be on the safe side, I want two."
And the puzzler question is this.
If one would give him a lawn in 30 days, when he buys two, what day must he apply the arrester spray to stop it from subsuming his car, his garage and his kids?
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