Continued from Week 12
“Boy, Goblin, you sure do take awhile to come up with these
amazing riddles.”
He huffed. “Hang on just a second. It cannot be just any
riddle. I definitely need to get you a good one, especially since you are one
of those fancy, educated college kids.”
I looked at the sky and at the ground as the goblin pondered
his next move.
“Please do not forget that I have to get to class. I would
like this riddle as quickly as possible please.”
The goblin looked at me incredulously. “Boy, what they say
about this generation is right. You all have no patience whatsoever. Fine. But
just for your outburst, I am going make you answer two riddles. Let us start
with our first one. It is a doozy. However, here you go:
A dad and his son were riding their bikes and crashed. Two
ambulances came and took them to different hospitals. The man’s son was in the
operating room and the doctor said, ‘I can’t operate on you. You’re my son.’”
The goblin now was staring at me expectantly.
“Okay. So the doctor can’t operate because the boy was the
son? But his father went to a different hospital,” I mused. The goblin giggled a
little. However, I was very determined to not let him win.
THINK THINK THINK
Maybe the son was adopted? Would that possibly be the
answer? Or … wait!
“Ha! The doctor was the boy’s MOTHER!” I yelled with sudden
mental clarity.
The goblin’s face fell. “You are right. Maybe that one was
too easy. Let me give you a great one for the second riddle:
A man leaves home and turns left three times, only to return
home facing two men wearing masks. Who are those two men?”
Well, dang. That goblin sure does have some good riddles up
his sleeve. I tried to visualize this in my head but realized I just kept
getting turned around. I picked up a stick and started making map.
I realized he made a diamond shape with the way the
hypothetical man was walking. I chuckled. Too bad the goblin didn’t know that I
was very into sports!
“The man is a baseball player. So, the two men are the
catcher and the umpire!”
The goblin nodded thoughtfully. “You are right. Alright. I will let you pass the bridge.”
With that he went back to his hiding place and I crossed the
bridge with no incident. I finished the walk to class as the sun came back out.
Author's Note: Here it is! Part Two of The Riddles. I suddenly realized that a lot of people were waiting for the second part of the story. So, thank you all for essentially pressuring me into completing this. I did not make up those riddles. Those are two riddles that I have heard a lot over my lifetime and I have always enjoyed them. They used to really stump me. In the original story, a goblin tells a king twenty-two riddles. There is one riddle everytime the king goes back to capture the goblin and the goblin escapes again. I thought I would switch it up and play with the "troll that guards the bridge" idea. The original story is in Ryder's Twenty-Two Goblins (2009).
Author's Note: Here it is! Part Two of The Riddles. I suddenly realized that a lot of people were waiting for the second part of the story. So, thank you all for essentially pressuring me into completing this. I did not make up those riddles. Those are two riddles that I have heard a lot over my lifetime and I have always enjoyed them. They used to really stump me. In the original story, a goblin tells a king twenty-two riddles. There is one riddle everytime the king goes back to capture the goblin and the goblin escapes again. I thought I would switch it up and play with the "troll that guards the bridge" idea. The original story is in Ryder's Twenty-Two Goblins (2009).
