RAY: Ha, we're back listening to Car Talk with us, Click and Clack the Tappet brothers and we are here to discuss cars, car repair and the new barely automotive puzzler.
TOM: I can hardly wait.
RAY: Pay attention now.
TOM: OK. I'm going to close my eyes and meditate on this. Go ahead.
RAY: A woman and her husband decide to go shopping one Saturday for a used car. This is the automotive part of the puzzler. So they go to the neighborhood used car dealer and a young man is showing them around the parking lot; showing them the various cars. They don't seem to be really excited about any one of them. Finally, he says, "Oh, how could I have forgotten this one? I have just the car for you. I know you are going to love it." He takes them over to this late model Japanese car and he says, "You are not going to believe this. This car belonged to my fourth grade teacher, Ms. Johnson. It's a wonderful car, and she treated it very well, had all the service done here. Interestingly, she never left town with the car. All she ever did with the car was she drove from home to school and back, and on Sundays, she went to church. She never used the car on Saturday." They look over the car, and it looks magnificent. So the woman asks the obvious question: "Why did Ms. Johnson sell the car?" He said, "Well, as luck would have it, she was called out of town on very short notice to care for a sick relative in the Midwest someplace so she came in here last week and sold us the car, and of course, it's your good fortune that it's here. But this is a wonderful car." The woman gets in behind the wheel, and starts up the engine. It sounds fine. The husband sits in the passenger seat and they fiddle with the controls. She fiddles with the controls on the dashboard, tries the wipers, blows the horn, looks around the car. The husband says, "Geez, hon, I think we ought to get it." "It's such a cute color too," she says, as she turns off the key.
TOM: I don't think so.
RAY: She says, "I don't think so."
TOM: I could see it coming.
RAY: "He's lying to us." The question is, how did she know? The answer is not that the salesman was moving his lips.
TOM: I love it.
RAY: If you think you know the answer, write it on the back of twenty dollar bill —
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