Wednesday, September 14, 2005

For those of you who enjoy a good puzzle...

Premise: You're driving a wheezy 1972 Cutlass Supreme in the middle of the Mohave desert. You're out of gas at a one-pump gas station called Bob's. Gas is $3 a gallon. You've only got $27 dollars. A man with mirrored sun glasses and a denim muscle shirt sells you the gas. You need 10 gallons not 9. Your car gets 20 miles per gallon if you drive 50 mph. The fastest your car can go is 80 mph. At that speed you only get 15 miles per gallon. Silver Town is 200 miles away and you have to get to Silver Town in 4 hours or else you're too late to redeem your winning lottery ticket. Muscles won't give you another gallon on credit. He says Bob will get mad. He pats his sidearm. You pay and figure you'll hitch hike the last leg.

The road is empty. You don't know it but the road was sealed in both directions for 200 miles because of a UFO sighting. There's not a soul in sight.

Before you left your desert shack you packed your trunk full of 3 things you thought you might need in case you got stranded. You didn't bring gas because you were afraid it would blow up. How are you going to make it in time to claim your cool $7 million?

1 Comments:

Blogger Angie said...

A battery-powered Segway?

5:06 PM  

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