Lateral Thinking Questions

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ANSWER: L.T.Q. #45  !
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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 96 13:11 EDT

It's coming on the time in Autumn when the trees start to turn colour. It's a wonderful time to go for drives or walks in the countryside.

Here is this week's question:

A woman dived into a swimming pool where other people were safely splashing about. The woman was a good swimmer in perfect health. As soon as she dived in, however, she immediately realized that she should not have done so and shrieked in horror. Why?

ANSWER:

She realized that she was still wearing the new gold watch which her husband had given her for their silver wedding anniversary. It was not waterproof.

Duh! A gold watch for their silver anniversary? It sounds like the couple are a matched pair!

Nobody figured out the book answer, but there were a number of responses more interesting:

  • Lynne said her bikini top came off. This was close to what I was thinking, that the bathing suit was one that turned transparent when wet.  $;-)  Hubba, hubba!
  • Lew suggested perhaps the woman forgot to take out her contacts, or maybe her contact manager— the chlorine is murder on hard drives!
  • oddlystrange thought the woman just got a perm and knows the chlorine is going to be turning green shortly. Later, she asked: "did she dive into the shallow end and hit her head? (Sorry. I remember all those commercials on the telly saying don't dive into anything shallower than 6 feet and/or don't dive while drunk.)"
  • Jamie also said "it could have been a wading pool not meant for diving." I realize I left out part of a clue which said the woman suffered no physical injury when she dived in to the pool.

    • Anybody want to come over and splash around for a while in my gene pool? (Roseanne Field wanted to when we were in college. Since she wasn't going to let me join in the fun while she did it, I wouldn't go along with the idea!)

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