Topic: You'll hate this (Read 20365 times)

thermidorthelobster · « **on:** May 28, 2007, 12:38:23 »

This is one of those "can you explain the situation" riddles. By careful questioning you are trying to reveal the set of circumstances which leads to the situation I've described. You can ask any question which I can answer yes/no/irrelevant.

I warn you, this took me 2 days of driving across Iceland to guess correctly. Please don't use Google. Obviously there are many possible answers but the idea is to guess the one in my head. If anybody already knows this one then PM me to confirm the answer and you can join in the answering.

If everybody loses the will to live I'll reveal the answer...

A woman walks into a restaurant. Half way through the meal, she gets up, runs out of the restaurant and is run over by a bus. Why?

Magnum335 · « **Reply #1 on:** May 28, 2007, 14:13:23 »

Is that why does she run out of the restaurant OR why half way through OR why is she run over by a bus?

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #2 on:** May 28, 2007, 14:17:03 »

The whole thing. The idea is to deduce a (vaguely plausible) set of circumstances which explains what's happening. There are lots, of course, and you're supposed to guess the one in my head 8)

Sharpshooter · « **Reply #3 on:** May 28, 2007, 14:55:40 »

Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D

beast5680 · « **Reply #4 on:** May 28, 2007, 15:02:47 »

was the restaurant a buffet car on a train?

Keri · « **Reply #5 on:** May 28, 2007, 15:06:57 »

She walks in to meet her boy friend for a meal, who tells her he's breaking up with her because he's gay, shes so distraught she runs as fast as she can out of the resturant in tears not thinking what she doing she runs into the road to hear the screech of brakes, as she turns a bus smashes into her.......

Im wrong but still :lol:

Yoshi · « **Reply #6 on:** May 28, 2007, 15:38:56 »

Ok, there was a green man in the restaurant, he got up, his trousers dropped, she ran out and got ran over by the bus, i.e. never cross the road while the green mans flashing ;) lol

richo · « **Reply #7 on:** May 28, 2007, 16:56:29 »

Sod your riddle i'm off to watch a dvd ,can't get my head round it

Buddha · « **Reply #8 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:01:46 »

She's a bus driver on her break. Half way through her meal she realises that she didn't apply the parking brake when parking her bus. Leaps and makes for her bus to apply the brake properly, only for it to mow her down?

Jake · « **Reply #9 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:02:00 »

Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"

A woman walks into a restaurant. Half way through the meal, she gets up, runs out of the restaurant and is run over by a bus. Why?

Because she saw Gordon Ramseys handsome face which put her off her meal then she got run over by a steam powered bus which she didn't hear it coming?
:lol:

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #10 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:14:05 »

Quote from: "Sharpshooter"

Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D

Well, yeah, but why did she do that?

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #11 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:14:29 »

Quote from: "Buddha"

She's a bus driver on her break. Half way through her meal she realises that she didn't apply the parking brake when parking her bus. Leaps and makes for her bus to apply the brake properly, only for it to mow her down?

Nice idea, but... no.

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #12 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:14:53 »

Quote from: "Jake"

Because she saw Gordon Ramseys handsome face which put her off her meal then she got run over by a steam powered bus which she didn't hear it coming?
:lol:

Er... no...

Lord Shagg-Pyle · « **Reply #13 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:19:27 »

Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"

Quote from: "Sharpshooter"
Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D

Well, yeah, but why did she do that?

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Because she was a mentalist?

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #14 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:24:27 »

Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle"

Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"
Quote from: "Sharpshooter"
Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D

Well, yeah, but why did she do that?
#

Because she was a mentalist?

She might have been, but that's not relevant :P

datalas · « **Reply #15 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:31:33 »

She was a sensible woman, and had just been handed the several thousand pound bill for a sandwich in london...

it's the only thing that makes sense, since there's sod all buses outside of the capital ;)

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #16 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:53:10 »

Quote from: "datalas"

She was a sensible woman, and had just been handed the several thousand pound bill for a sandwich in london...

Actually, it's relevant that the restaurant wasn't in London, but Southampton.

Lord Shagg-Pyle · « **Reply #17 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:54:02 »

Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"

Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle"
Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"
Quote from: "Sharpshooter"
Because she walked infront of the bus whilst it was moving. The fact of the meal is irrelivant. :D :D

Well, yeah, but why did she do that?
#

Because she was a mentalist?

She might have been, but that's not relevant :P

It would be relevant to her! but then again if she was a mentalist, what she did would have seemed normal to her anyway, but not to us!
But hey, I don't care, coz I'm drinking beer. She was a silly sod to run in front of a bus! If she had run into a giant motorised marshmallow, she would be here to tell us why she ran outside.
My brain hurts!

TDi90 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 28, 2007, 17:59:11 »

Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle"

My brain hurts!

i bet the beer dont help :roll: :lol:

Lord Shagg-Pyle · « **Reply #19 on:** May 28, 2007, 18:45:40 »

Quote from: "TDi90"

Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle"

My brain hurts!

i bet the beer dont help :roll: :lol:

Of course it helps, crazy fool! It numbs the pain and makes my world go fluffy!

datalas · « **Reply #20 on:** May 28, 2007, 19:05:14 »

Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"

Quote from: "datalas"
She was a sensible woman, and had just been handed the several thousand pound bill for a sandwich in london...

Actually, it's relevant that the restaurant wasn't in London, but Southampton.

That explains everything, she tasted the water and ran out into the street to upchuck ;)

Either that or she couldn't stomach being in southampton any longer ;) the place is so dull even the busses are depressed (they're the blue line)

landy4x4xfar · « **Reply #21 on:** May 28, 2007, 22:57:55 »

Quote from: "thermidorthelobster"

A woman walks into a restaurant. Half way through the meal, she gets up, runs out of the restaurant and is run over by a bus. Why?

she is blind and hears the fire alarm and runs out on the street "splat" :twisted: :twisted:

Lord Shagg-Pyle · « **Reply #22 on:** May 29, 2007, 22:07:55 »

She was possesed by Demons?

Welshbreed · « **Reply #23 on:** May 29, 2007, 22:18:26 »

a fortune teller once told her she'd die outside a restauraunt in southhampton. she remembered this halfway though the meal and ran as fast as she could away from the restauraunt, so she wouldn't die. But she does and the fortune teller finally gets something right.

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #24 on:** May 29, 2007, 22:47:59 »

No fire alarm, no demons, no fortune teller. It's a complex story and asking questions will help :D

CaptainColourful · « **Reply #25 on:** May 30, 2007, 01:17:55 »

The restaurant was on a cruise ship, she was blind and having a meal with her friend but not going on the cruise herself.. the ships horn blew and she realised it was about to sail, so she legged it off the ship , the ships horn blew again and she didn't hear the bus coming ?

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #26 on:** May 30, 2007, 08:16:04 »

No, BUT, a cruise ship IS involved somewhere in the story.

beast5680 · « **Reply #27 on:** May 30, 2007, 10:25:48 »

Please tell me the answer *Bangs last nail into gallows* i have lost the will to live *throws rope over gallows* aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh :lol:

Red Defender · « **Reply #28 on:** May 30, 2007, 11:59:37 »

she was late to catch the red jet so ran out of the restaurant and was half way across the street when she noticed it had left early again and was so distraught at missing it she didn't notice the bus ? am i close ? :D

TDi90 · « **Reply #29 on:** May 30, 2007, 12:51:38 »

red jet... possibility or the QM2?
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