I was engaged to a little cutie who lived in Texas. We had met and spent the Summer at a mountain retreat.
Just before classes began, I drove to Texas from Florida to visit her parents. Her Father was a genius who held a large number of patents, He was a chemist for Dow Chemical.
The first morning after I awoke but she was still asleep, Her Mother made me breakfast. Her Father was fiddling with a magazine which had a bunch of brain teasers in it. He asked if I liked doing them and I said truthfully that I did.
We worked several of them and I realized the whole thing was a test to see how smart his future Son-in-Law was.
Anyway one of the questions was this: You have 5 pieces of chain. Each piece has 3 links. You decide to make them into a single long chain.
You take them to a blacksmith and he says he will charge a penny to cut a link and 2 cents to weld a link back together. What is the cheapest you can have the job done.
The answer is 9 cents. I guess I passed as he said I was the only person who had ever given the correct answer.
Ok, that’s cool, but what happened to the little cutie? :)
RE: I guess I passed as he said I was the only person who had ever given the correct answer.
So, are you married to the Texas cutie?
Minimum blacksmith charge is $50.