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Answers~! ^^

1. The old lady of course! After helping the old lady into the car, you can give your keys to your friend, and wait with your perfect partner for the bus.

2. The fireman is the only man in the room. The rest of the poker players are women.

3. The wife was about to have a baby. They were driving to the hospital. The baby was born, and the wife didn't survive the birth.

4. They were used by children who made a snowman. The snow has now melted.

5. The sisters are Siamese twins.

6. The water in the river only came up to the man's chest. 7. The truck driver was walking.

8. The man is a philanthropist who bought great quantities of rice to sell to poor people at prices they could afford. He started out as a billionaire, but lost so much money in his good works that he became a millionaire!

9. Because he would earn three times as much money!

10. He was a lighthouse keeper who switched off the lighthouse.

11. The practice originated to ensure that the clerk had to open the till and give change for each transaction, thus recording the sale and preventing him from pocketing the bank notes.

12. The doors at 'The Coconut Grove' opened inward. In the mad panic to escape the fire, people were crushed against the doors and could not pull them open. After 'The Coconut Grove' disaster in 1942, all public buildings had to have doors which opened outward.

--- JM ---