Bilateral Thinking Puzzles
Q: A man is sitting in bed. He makes a phonecall, says nothing, and then
goes to sleep. Why?
A: He and a number of other passengers were making a balloon trip in a
desperate attempt to flee a country. They drew matches to see who should
jump.
This is another thing that seemed funnier a third of the way into
writing it, from
the Surrealist. 19th August 2005.