Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
Q: A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day he takes the
elevator to go down to the ground floor to go to work or to go shopping.
When he returns he takes the elevator to the seventh floor and walks up
the stairs to reach his apartment on the tenth floor. He hates walking so
why does he do it?
A: When the man tasted albatross he realized that he had never tasted it
before. This meant that the meat he had been given on the island was not
albatross as he had been told. He correctly deduced that he had eaten the
flesh of his son who had died when they first reached the island.
This is another thing that seemed funnier a third of the way into
writing it, from
the Surrealist. 19th August 2005.