Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
Q: A man is sitting in bed. He makes a phonecall, says nothing, and then
goes to sleep. Why?
A: The man was listening to a radio programme where the DJ calls a
listener and asks them a question for a prize. They announce the name of
the listener they are calling - it is the man's wife, yet another man (her
lover) answered the phone.
This is another thing that seemed funnier a third of the way into
writing it, from
the Surrealist. 19th August 2005.