A Ride on the Subway
A woman visiting a big city is getting ready to board the subway. She is unfamiliar with the city and the subway system, but decides to jump on and go for a ride anyway. She takes the subway for a 15-minute ride to the next stop. As she goes to get off, the subway operator asks her if she needs directions. The woman replies, "No, I know exactly where I am." How?
Answer
It is a circular track with only one stop.
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Beelzebub 
Feb 05, 2002
| What is the point of a circular track with only one stop? Who would pay to go on this train? |
jimbo  
Apr 24, 2003
| If you hadn't used the term subway it would make more sense. A tourist train might go around in a circle for people to view the scenery or a ride at a carnival, but "subway"? |
RoxyChick13 
Jan 27, 2005
| HAHAHAHA!  Not!  |
Atropus 
Feb 09, 2005
| I would think it more logical that she heard the stop announced over a speaker system, or she recognised the stop as the one where she got on. 
Cooler still, would be that she had left her bag behind and saw it by the platform out the window |
darthforman
May 26, 2005
| who ever heard of a 1 stop subway  |
converse_chik
Oct 22, 2005
| i don't get it.  |
Brainy_1
Dec 30, 2005
| Huh?  I'm confused. I would not ride that train!! Good one tho!  |
Brainy_1
Dec 30, 2005
| I meant subway. |
musicmaker21113
Jan 12, 2006
| I thought she rode to the final stop on the line, so she would know where she was (e.g. at the airport, or at the terminal, etc.)
It doesn't make sense to have a circular, one stop subway.
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horse_luver
Jan 22, 2006
| OK... uh... or not. These teasers are supposed to make sense in real life, and this one doesn't. A circular subway with one stop would never be built in the first place. Sorry. |
SPUTNIK2
Jan 25, 2006
| LOL that was a good one
thanks |
jessjspieks
Jan 29, 2006
| This is silly, who would have got that correct. Why would you board a subway that has only one stop??Surprised this one got accepted. |
(user deleted)
Feb 02, 2006
| This makes absolutely no sense. Why would there be a subway with a circular track and only one stop.
If at first you don't succeed, try another teaser. |
Vigo95
Feb 22, 2006
| i'm gla we're all in agreement !
come on there is NO SUCH THING |
Methlos 
Mar 12, 2006
| Dun't make much sence |
xdbtcp
Mar 28, 2006
| Best teaser yet!
I'm going to get in the elevator of my one story building now..... |
jj_is_cool
Mar 29, 2006
| i knew it, iv also heard of that before\ |
spazzyjazzy93
Apr 07, 2006
| i said that she took the subway out of the city back to her home town and then she knew where she was. . . i dont know how that makes sense
i like your answer better (even though a subway with just one stop is kind of pointless ) |
elshawno
May 05, 2006
| ya, I thought that she got off at her home town, thusfore knowing exactly where she was...
I really don't think that it makes sense to have a subway that goes around in circles... |
laya
May 12, 2006
| good one... didnt make much sence you should add to it |
heculix
Jun 09, 2006
| I think a better reply could be "She was back where she started."
You dont have to have a "one stop subway", it's pointless. |
Unraveled
Jun 25, 2006
| But she only rode one stop. If she was back where she started, then there'd only be one stop...
To continue nitpicking all of the logical and real life mistakes, why would the operator ask the woman if she needs directions if there's only one stop? |
Qrystal
Jul 20, 2006
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Well, Unraveled, anyone who bothers to get on a one-stop subway is obviously lost, LOL! |
rrn0rrnrrnY
Sep 03, 2006
| You said she just decided to go for a ride, and since she got off at the first stop she knew all she had to do was get on the reverse train and do the same. It never said she had any destination in mind and found that explanation much more plausible than a circular track with one stop in a big city. Too off the wall an answer for me. |
tedger
Oct 01, 2006
| Who ever heard of a circular subway system? |
twinklyspangle
Oct 07, 2006
| The people who built the subway made a terrible mistake. |
soonitwillend
Dec 17, 2006
| I figured she knew she was on the platform.
But, I agree.
The point of a subway with one stop is..? |
coolcow35
Jan 05, 2007
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Jerrythellama
Feb 04, 2007
| ...why? |
starrychelx
Feb 13, 2007
| This question is ridiculous! I live in a big city, and I take the subway to work every day. First of all, unless you're on the commuter (which takes you FAR out of the city), there is no train that takes 15 minutes between stops. And to reiterate, a CIRCULAR ONE-STOP SUBWAY LINE??? please... |
bgil7604
Feb 26, 2007
| ok... but they also announce where they stop before they get off. But I've never heard of a subway with one stop.  |
Yuffie
Nov 12, 2008
| Heheh, I thought maybe she took the subway home. A circle with only one stop? Don't know of any such subways, myself. |
RomanG417
Jul 28, 2009
| What kind of a subway is this? You pay money, spend fifteen minutes of your time to get into a crowded underground train with nothing to do, just to get off to a subway operator that offers directions from the place you started in. |
No_Eyed_Fsh 
Jan 13, 2011
| Don't subways tell you what stop is coming up on a speaker system? |
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