An Arrogant Lawyer Tried to Outsmart a Tired Blonde for Cash. Her Final Riddle Cost Him a Fortune.
A smug corporate lawyer and a beautiful blonde found themselves seated next to each other in first class on a long, grueling flight from Los Angeles to New York.
The blonde was completely exhausted from a long week of work and just wanted to curl up against the window and take a peaceful nap. However, the lawyer was feeling incredibly restless and looking for a bit of entertainment.
He leaned over, flashed a predatory smile, and asked if she would like to play a fun trivia game to pass the time. Politely, she declined, turned her back toward him, and closed her eyes to catch a few winks.
The lawyer, convinced of his own intellectual superiority, persisted. He tapped her on the shoulder and explained that the game was incredibly easy and highly amusing.
“Look, it’s simple,” he explained confidently. “I ask you a trivia question, and if you don’t know the answer, you have to pay me $5.00. Then it’s your turn. If you ask me a question and I don’t know the answer, I’ll pay you $5.00.”
Once again, the blonde groggily declined the offer, placed her eye mask back on, and tried to get some desperate sleep.
Now visibly agitated that a blonde was ignoring him, the lawyer decided to raise the stakes to a level she couldn’t resist. “Okay, let’s make it interesting,” he said loudly. “If I ask you a question and you don’t know it, you only pay me $5.00. But if you ask me a question and I can’t answer it, I will personally pay you $500.00 cash!”
This immediately caught the blonde’s attention. Figuring there would be absolutely no end to this annoying torment unless she participated, she took off her eye mask, nodded, and agreed to play just one round.
The $500 Riddle
The lawyer smirked, eager to take her money. He fired off the first question: “What is the exact scientific distance from the Earth to the Moon?”
The blonde didn’t say a single word, didn’t even blink. She simply opened her designer purse, pulled out a crisp $5.00 bill, handed it to the triumphant lawyer, and laid her head back down.
“Perfect!” cheered the lawyer, pocketing the cash. “Now, it’s your turn.”
The blonde opened her eyes, looked at him calmly, and asked: “What goes up a steep hill on three legs, but comes back down the hill on four legs?”
The lawyer’s smile instantly vanished. He sat up straight, completely puzzled. He whipped out his laptop, connected to the expensive in-flight Wi-Fi, and searched every major database, riddle archive, and encyclopedia reference on the internet. Absolutely nothing came up.
Frustrated and sweating, he opened his email and blasted a message to all his brilliant Ivy-League friends and top coworkers at the law firm, begging for help. Nobody had an answer.
After an hour of frantic, frantic searching, the plane began its final descent. Defeated, humiliated, and furious, the lawyer shook the blonde awake. He opened his wallet and handed her five crisp $100.00 bills.
The blonde smiled sweetly, said, “Thank you, sir,” placed the $500.00 safely into her purse, adjusted her pillow, and immediately went right back to sleep.
The lawyer, who was now deeply miffed and losing his mind with curiosity, couldn’t handle it anymore. He aggressively shook her shoulder again to wake her up.
“Well?!” he demanded angrily. “You have to tell me! What on earth goes up a hill with three legs and comes down with four?!”
Without uttering a single word, the blonde calmly opened her purse, handed the lawyer a $5.00 bill, rolled over, and went back to sleep.
