You sound bored. How about a riddle? don’t look it up! That’s cheating! What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word???

sillyikesenthings:

Thats a metaphor for people! “Four in the morning” is referencing crawling as a baby in early life, “two at noon” as walking as an adult, and “three at night” as reference to using a cane when you become old.

Now that I think of it, wasn’t that like the riddle of the sphinx? 🤔 I’m rusty on my historical legends/fables/stories….

forallyourikemensengokuneeds:

Here is one of the best I have heard all my life…….

What walks on four legs in the morning, two at noon, and three by night?

sillyikesenthings:

forallyourikemensengokuneeds:

Starting…… Riddles are my middle daughters thing. she loves doing them and will come sit and ask me for help. 

Hahah yay! That’s very correct! I don’t do riddles too often but every once in a while I stumble upon something neat.

It is. My mother used to try and use that one against me and told me i could do something or have something untilI figured it out. My mother was slightly off……