RAY: Hi. We're back. You're listening to Car Talk with us, Click and Clack, the Tappett Brothers, and we're here to talk about cars, car repairs, and, duh, the answer to last week's Puzzler, and here it is. I'm sure you've forgotten all about it.

TOM: The guy, they were buying a used car.

RAY: Very good!

TOM: And it was only driven by a little old lady who drove it to school once in a while when she went to church on Sunday.

RAY: You got it. That's it. Keep going. Don't slow down now.

TOM: And the little old, and the woman who was driving, buying the car, the prospective buyer, said, ah, ah, ah! How's that? Hey, I actually remember this Puzzler!

RAY: I'm blown away! Well, you got most of the facts right.

TOM: Yeah. I don't really remember the details.

RAY: But she and her husband are looking at the car, and the salesman says, "My fourth grade teacher," or some such thing, "Miss Johnson, drove this car, and she only drove it back and forth to school. She never left town with it. She drove to church on Sunday, and on Saturday, it sat in her driveway." And anyway, they look over the car.

TOM: My fourth grade teacher was Miss Skahan, S-K-A-H-A-N.

RAY: Ah, but that was the first time.

TOM: The second time, fourth grade.

RAY: Oh, second time.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: Yeah.

TOM: I did all the grades twice.

RAY: Anyway, they look over this car.

TOM: That was because my teachers liked me, my mommy said.

RAY: Yeah. They liked you so much, Tommy, they want you to stay another year!

TOM: Right.

RAY: OK. Anyway, come on. You're killing valuable time here. There are people out there that need to speak to us.

TOM: All right. I'm sorry.

RAY: Anyway, they look over the car, and of course, it looks magnificent, and the woman asks the obvious question, "Well, why did Miss Johnson sell the car? And the dealer 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, and so she came in here last week and sold us the car, and of course, it's your good fortune that it's here."

TOM: Mmm-hmm.

RAY: So, the woman gets in behind the wheel and starts up the engine, and it sounds great, and her husband gets in the passenger seat. She fiddles with the controls on the dashboard, and the husband is saying, "Oh, gee, hon, let's get it, let's get it! It's really cute! I love it, I love it! It's a great color!"

TOM: Turns on the heater. She plays with everything.

RAY: She blows the horn. Everything works perfectly. And the husband says, "Gee, hon, we gotta get it. You know, let's do it!" And she says, "I don't think so. The salesman is lying to us."

TOM: "Oh! A salesman lying," the husband says incredulously.

RAY: And the question is: how did she know the answer?

TOM: Because he opened his mouth and his lips were moving.

RAY: That wasn't the answer, that his lips were moving. Well, she did fiddle with everything, the wipers, and she blew the horn, and she turned on the heater and all that. She also turned on the radio.

TOM: Yeah.

RAY: And when she turned on the radio, she noticed that it was not set to a local station. In fact, there was noise coming across So, she tried another station, and another, and another. And in every case, the presets were set to stations that were not local stations, so this car clearly was from out of town. And if the story were absolutely true that Miss Johnson never left town —

TOM: Sheez!

RAY: — then how could she have listened to these stations?

TOM: Wow Man!

RAY: So, who's our winner, Tommy?

TOM: What a clever woman, huh?

RAY: Indeed.

TOM: Wow! Our winner this week is Andy Parolla from Commawela, Hawaii.

RAY: Commawela. That sounds like —

TOM: Commawela. Commawela.

RAY: Yeah.

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