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I know this may be a pretty old riddle, but I am seeing if you can remember this:

Three friends check into a motel for the night and the clerk tells them the bill is $30, payable in advance. So, they each pay the clerk $10 and go to their room. A few minutes later, the clerk realizes he has made an error and overcharged the trio by $5. He asks the bellhop to return $5 to the 3 friends who had just checked in. The bellhop sees this as an opportunity to make $2 as he reasons that the three friends would have a tough time dividing $5 evenly among them; so he decides to tell them that the clerk made a mistake of only $3, giving a dollar back to each of the friends. He pockets the leftover $2 and goes home for the day! Now, each of the three friends gets a dollar back, thus they each paid $9 for the room which is a total of $27 for the night. We know the bellhop pocketed $2 and adding that to the $27, you get $29, not $30 which was originally spent. Where did the other dollar go????

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Do a search before posting this old crap.

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Originally posted by Nighthawk62
Do a search before posting this old crap.

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And why is that?

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Originally posted by chess kid1
And why is that?
That's why is that. It was just "discussed" last week.

http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=30966

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Originally posted by crazyblue
That's why is that. It was just "discussed" last week.

http://www.redhotpawn.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=30966
Thread 30966

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More importantly:

3 couples check into a motel: a straight couple, a gay couple and a lesbian couple. They check in at the exact same time but they check out at separate times. Which couple checks out first and why?

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Originally posted by darvlay
More importantly:

3 couples check into a motel: a straight couple, a gay couple and a lesbian couple. They check in at the exact same time but they check out at separate times. Which couple checks out first and why?
Answer: The gay couple because they packed their sh-t the night before.

Think outside the box people!

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Originally posted by darvlay
Answer: The gay couple because they packed their sh-t the night before.

Think outside the box people!
The straight couple, because they are deeply homophobic.

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Originally posted by darvlay
Think outside the box people!
This is where the hilarity is. Oh God, think outside the box. Haha, I'll be thinking about that all day.

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Originally posted by darvlay
More importantly:

3 couples check into a motel: a straight couple, a gay couple and a lesbian couple. They check in at the exact same time but they check out at separate times. Which couple checks out first and why?
The gay couple because guys take way less time than girls do.

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Originally posted by Gastel
The gay couple because guys take way less time than girls do.
Dunno about that one.

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Originally posted by chess kid1
Dunno about that one.
Trust me they don't call it racy for nothing!

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Originally posted by Gastel
Trust me they don't call it racy for nothing!
racegry more like

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LOL!

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