(Late)Puzzler Answer

Hi everybody,
Yes, I know, this is late, but we had to go down to Eureka on Saturday, and I didn't feel like posting yesterday, so I will do so now. Anyway, here is the question from last Thursday, and the answer to it too. ;-)

RAY: A few weeks ago, Tommy calls me up and tell me that our sister Lucille is sick. He says, "I'll make her some chicken soup if you will deliver it to her." So, after work, I show up at Tommy's house.When I get there, Tommy's pouring chicken soup into a plastic container and mumbling that he can't find the right cover for it.We try one, and it pops off. We put another cover on. It pops off. I tried to put tape on the cover, and the tape won't stick to the plastic.So, I very carefully carry the chicken soup out to my Dodge Colt Vista... TOM: Is this the automotive part of the puzzler?RAY: You bet. I put the soup on the floor. With great trepidation, I pull away from the curb.I realize as I'm driving that my house is between Tommy's house and Lucille's house, and I should stop off at home, see the wife and kids and the hounds, and maybe have supper.So, I stop at home. I have supper. I sit in front of the TV, and I fall asleep watching TV. Hours later, I wake up - TOM: Remembering that our sister is probably knocking at the front door, looking for the chicken soup. RAY: Right. And I go back to sleep. I wake up again at 1:30. I hurriedly grab a few old National Geographic magazines and some fruit that we were going to throw away. I jump in the car and drive to her house, which is several miles from my house-never once concerned that I'm going to spill the soup. And, in fact, I don't spill a drop of it. TOM: But, you were concerned when you left my house. RAY: Right, but why wasn't I concerned this time?

Here is the answer. When he went home, he left the soup in the car. During the time that it took for him to have supper; fall asleep; wake up at 1:30 in the morning; gather the National Geographics and fruit, by the time he got to her house it was probably around 2:00, and by that time, the soup froze, so that it couldn't spill.

Pretty tough, huh?

Gotta go,

Jacob