Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
Q: A man walks into a bar and asks the barman for a glass of water. The
barman pulls out a gun and points it at the man. The man says 'thank you'
and walks out. What happened?
A: The man is a travel agent. He had sold someone two tickets for an
ocean voyage, one ticket round-trip and one ticket one-way.
This is another thing that seemed funnier a third of the way into
writing it, from
the Surrealist. 19th August 2005.