Puzzler of the week

[Scott MacLean]

This week's puzzler:

Jerry had worked lots of summers and he finally accumulated enough money to buy himself a brand-new 1968 Volkswagen Beetle.

It was a dark and stormy September night when Jerry and his college roommate pulled the brand-new Beetle out of the dealership parking lot in Chicago, on their way to college at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison.

Since the Beetle was brand-new and hadn't been broken in, they decided to drive the shiny bug on the back roads of Wisconsin, so as not to exceed the break-in speed.

The roads they chose were muddy and rutted, and it was really quite an adventure. They ran out of gas and they had a blowout -- as you might expect.

Searching for the spare, they found it under the hood where the engine should have been.  Without reading the instruction manual they carefully replaced the bad tire with the spare and then put the blown tire where the spare had been.

They continued on their muddy route looking for a service station where they could get the flat tire repaired.  Low and behold, a few miles down the road, they come across "Helmut's German Car Repair."  An oasis of European automotive expertise in rural Wisconsin.

No sooner had they pulled into the station, carefully navigating through the mud-splattered windshield, than out popped Helmut who immediately said to the driver, "You�re here to get ze tire fixed, eh?"

How did Helmut know they had a flat tire?

Last week's puzzler:

In his youth a man decides to take a trip to visit the great pyramids of Egypt.  He is deeply moved by the trip, and years later he decides to take his son who has never been away from home to see the pyramids.

Here�s the catch.  The man made his trip to the pyramids in 1995, but his son made his trip to see them in 1969.

How is this possible? 

Last week's puzzler answer:

What you have to think about is how long the pyramids have been around. While the father may have taken his trip in 1995, that was 1995 BC. And 26 years later in 1969 he and his son went.

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