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Latteral Thinking.

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hairlessupportmonkey

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Aug 26, 2009
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This was told to me yesterday and I was the only one that got it ;-)

A man lives on the 20th floor of his apartment building and every morning he gets in the lift, presses the button for the ground floor and goes to work.

In the evening, he gets in the lift and gets off at the 10th floor and walks to his 20th floor apartment. If however someone who lived on the 14th floor was already in the lift, he would alight the lift and walk from the 14th floor to his apartment.

Why does he do this?

Feel free to ask questions and hide your answer if you know it :)

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[hide]He is only tall enough to reach the 10th floor button[/hide]

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Cancel that. If that was the case he couls ask the 14th floor person to press 20.

I'll think again.

Aspiring to mediocrity since 1957
 
I ask that we please keep posts topical for this forum. The STC forum is far more suitable for this type of riddle. Thanks.

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Besides, the subject is incorrect. Shouldn't it be "Vertical Thinking"? ;-)

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The way I originally heard this one, on rainy days he would take the elevator all the way to the 20th floor.

Because he was carrying an umbrella and could reach all of the buttons.
 
The last time I heard the joke it was a school kid not a man. On Fridays she would be able to go up 6 more floors by standing on the extra book she brought home to study out of.
 
Hairless said:
A man lives on the 20th floor...

Roamer said:
On Fridays she would be able to go up 6 more floors by standing on the extra book she brought home to study out of.

So on which floor did s/he get the sex change?

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annihilannic said:
Besides, the subject is incorrect. Shouldn't it be "Vertical Thinking"?

That's better than latteral (anyone care to define this?) which seems to be a common misspelling of lateral.
 
Maybe it should be "Literal Thinking", since puzzles like this are often based on people making assumptions beyond the actual description.

 
@hairlesssupportmonkey,

So it turns out that this puzzle was appropriate for this forum all along. You missed your chance to say the spelling mistake was the real puzzle all along.

You may have set a record for the longest unchallenged mistake.

(I didn't notice)

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I've spent a lot of time on the beach, mulling over things. I'd call that littoral thinking.
 
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