Dear Click and Clack,
Well, there I am sitting in my dorm room Saturday afternoon when the phone rings. Hoping to find an attractive female on the other end, I was instead greeted by the sound of my dad's voice. My initial disappointment, however, soon turned to surprise when he informed me that a Puzzler I had sent in many years ago had been read on the air.
Baffled, I went to your Web site today to listen to the RealAudio file and to discover that he was indeed telling the truth. You guys wanted to know where I am these days (no, I'm not married yet) so here is the lowdown:
In 1994 I was in junior high school (so I guess you guys were sort of right: you said elementary or high school). Now I am a freshman at Harvard College, right here in Your (and now I guess mine too) Fair City, intending to concentrate in either government, social studies or history. Eventually I hope to go on to law school (I can see you guys grimacing right now as you read this).
I don't know if you guys were serious about wanting to talk to me, but if so, just e-mail me at shultz@fas.harvard.edu.
Also, if you want proof that I am not some imposter, I can tell you that my home address is 67-72 Exeter St., Forest Hills, NY 11375. Also, if memory serves, the answer to the Puzzler is that the helmets cause fewer fatalities, so the number of fatalities decreases. However, shrapnel that would have killed a person with a cloth helmet now merely injures them, so the number of injuries increases.
Finally, if you want to send a "graduation gift" (or at least some tacky Car Talk merchandise for having my Puzzler read on the air), you can send it to my campus address:
2331 Harvard Yard Mail Center
Cambridge, MA 02138-7513
Amused by this whole situation,
Benjamin Shultz
(yes, you read my Puzzler this week)
