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The Facebook Giraffe riddle

"It’s 3 a.m., the doorbell rings and you wake up. Unexpected visitors! It’s your parents and they are here for breakfast. You have strawberry jam, honey, wine, bread and cheese. What is the first thing you open?"

If you get the riddle wrong you have to change your profile picture to a giraffe, which is what everyone should do that answered it, because I am the only one who got it right. Even the person who wrote the riddle didn’t get it right.

You may say eye’s were the first thing open, but what if this person in the riddle was blind. Wouldn’t be that unrealistic. What about that riddle where the guy took the elevator only to the correct floor when it rained because he was short. Just saying… Or what if you sleep with one eye open, which you would do if you had kids, or if your parents had a tendency to show up unexpectedly at 3am.

Also wake up, could be figurative, like a wakeup call, which would be fitting for this riddle, because if my parents showed up at 3am, it would definitely be a wakeup call, that we don’t have a large enough buffer and need to live further away.

So you would say, door, unless you lived in a barn, or you were trying to heat the neighborhood to fight global warming, or unless your parents had a key, but then why would they ring the doorbell?  But it didn’t say they even rang the doorbell. It just said it rang, and in fact when it rang they could have already been in your house. It could have been your child that walked outside and just started ringing the doorbell, because that is what mine does all the time.

Others would say since your parents are there, the first thing they would open would be the wine.

But really the first thing you opened was Facebook, because it was a Facebook riddle, and if you didn’t do that, then you would have never read the riddle that lead to posting a picture of a giraffe on your profile. Which if you haven’t done so yet, you must now do, because you now realize you were wrong. So be a good sport and change that picture.

You may say that is only a technicality, but isn’t that what riddles are all about, technicalities. So technically, I am right.