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(Message started by: ladyslupe13 on May 19^th, 2006, 3:21pm)

Title: Elevator Ride
Post by ladyslupe13 on May 19^th, 2006, 3:21pm

Here's the riddle:

A man lives at the hundredth floor of a hotel and rides the elevator to the first floor every morning, crosses the street to go to work, comes back at night, and only rides the elevator up to the fiftieth floor and walks the other fifty flights.
WHY?

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Icarus on May 19^th, 2006, 7:20pm

Because he's too stupid to bring an umbrella. ;)

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by ladyslupe13 on May 19^th, 2006, 8:05pm

er...not even, sorry, mate.
Try that one again.

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Icarus on May 19^th, 2006, 8:08pm

No - I am correct. Think about it.

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Bamaboys on May 19^th, 2006, 8:19pm

You're new here, ladyslupe13, so let me explain something. Icarus has a unique way of giving an answer to a riddle without actually giving the answer to the riddle. It's one of the reasons I come here. Now, I'm assuming your original answer was the very common [hideb] The man was a midget and is able to reach the button for the first floor in the elevator every morning, but is only able to reach the 15th button when he comes back home. The way Icarus was hinting at was this riddle has been asked many times, usually with the man having an umbrella so he could reach the hundreth floor on the elevator. [/hideb] Am I making any sense here?

Well, either way, welcome to the forums! :)

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by william11141 on Jan 6^th, 2007, 5:31pm

Darn.. someone answered the riddle before I got here! Oh well, that's life.. :D

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by william11141 on Jan 6^th, 2007, 5:32pm

P.S., Read my summary, I made it up myself ;)

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by hiyathere on Jan 6^th, 2007, 5:32pm

on 05/19/06 at 20:19:02, Bamaboys wrote:

Barnabas, it's the 50th floor, not the 15th.

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Icarus on Jan 7^th, 2007, 7:32pm

I never claimed it was either one - look at who you are quoting...

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by hiyathere on Jan 18^th, 2007, 10:52am

Whoops. *modifys last post*

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by cchris on Jan 19^th, 2007, 8:12pm

Even so, this is an extremely common riddle, and it doesn't matter what floor he rode to, the point is that he didn't press the button for his floor.

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 7:55am

Another version:

A man lives with his wife at the hundredth floor. He is employed and she is housewife. So when he returns from work, he enters the elevator, and then calls her on the cellular phone. Why?????????????????????? ??? ???

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Icarus on Jan 20^th, 2007, 8:54am

Because he's one of those gormless twits who can't stand to spend 10 seconds straight without doing something, so he calls and interrupts everyone under the sun to entertain himself. >:(

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 9:37am

He is a chauvinist and expects a cold beer, a warm meal and a dialed in television when he walks in the door. If he called any sooner the beer would be room temperature, the meal would be tepid and the tv, well...that's besides the point. Originally his wife tried to guess when he would be home from when he got off work, but since it's his regular habit to stop by one of several gentlemens clubs on his way home, it became problematic to know when he would actually arrive.

What a jerk!

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 10:42am

Both of you are kidding, right? ??? :P

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 1:32pm

Kidding! This was not the answer you were looking for?

Maybe you were thinking...The man and his wife are both midgets and by calling her to come push the elevator call-button on the 100th floor, it saves him having to walk up 50 flights of steps and also allows him to avoid the necessity of carrying an umbrella or similar awkward stick.

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Iceman on Jan 20^th, 2007, 1:35pm

on 01/20/07 at 13:32:24, raven wrote:

Yes. That is the intended answer. :P And somehow, it sounds all so familiar......... ;)

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by raven on Jan 20^th, 2007, 1:45pm

Maybe a little... ;)

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by UNKNOWN on Feb 6^th, 2007, 6:32pm

im tired of these dumb riddles with dumb replies... liek this one... ;D
and anyways its iceman i expected sumthing as dumb as this... jk ;)

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Padfoot on Feb 7^th, 2007, 5:59am

Noone's making you read these! >:(
And BTW, please stop posting insults.

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by Grimbal on Feb 7^th, 2007, 6:12am

on 05/19/06 at 15:21:32, ladyslupe13 wrote:

A man lives at the hundredth floor of a hotel and rides the elevator to the first floor every morning, crosses the street to go to work, comes back at night, and only rides the elevator up to the fiftieth floor and walks the other fifty flights.
WHY?

Elevator is the name of a horse. It can go down 100 floors, but can go up only 50.

on 01/20/07 at 07:55:50, Iceman wrote:

A man lives with his wife at the hundredth floor. He is employed and she is housewife. So when he returns from work, he enters the elevator, and then calls her on the cellular phone. Why?

Because there are no public phones in elevators, duh!

Any others?

Title: Re: Elevator Ride
Post by thecow135 on Feb 7^th, 2007, 7:12pm

So if it is too difficult to find "trust" then I suggest that we first find the trust that we will find the trust!