Mensa. Great minds.

[Falcon]

There was a Mensa convention in San Francisco.
Mensa, as you probably know, is a national organization for
> people who have an IQ of 140 or higher. Several of the Mensa
> members went out for lunch at a local café.
When they sat down, one of them discovered that their salt
> shaker contained pepper, and their pepper shaker was full of salt.
How could they swap the contents of the two bottles without spilling any, and using only the implements at
> hand? Clearly, this was a job for Mensa
> minds. The group debated the problem and presented ideas and
> finally,came up with a brilliant solution involving a napkin, a straw, and an empty saucer.
> They called the waitress over, ready to dazzle her with their solution.
"Ma'am," they said, "we couldn't help but notice that the pepper shaker contains salt and the salt
> shaker has pepper." But before they could finish, the waitress interrupted: " Oh sorry about that."
She leaned over the table, unscrewed the caps of both bottles and switched them. There was dead silence at the Mensa table. Kind of reminds you of Washington D.C., doesn't it?
Amen!

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[tnthomas]

good one!

 

[Pinky]

That's the first logical thought that came to my mind. One doesn't have to have a high IQ to have common sense.

 

[Guitarist]

That's the first logical thought that came to my mind. One doesn't have to have a high IQ to have common sense.

And sometimes the two don't go hand in hand.

I read some story somewhere about an author whose child was sick one day so stayed home from school. The next morning at breakfast the author was supposed to write the child a note explaining his absence. Author thought and thought and wrote and scratched out and wrote again, unable to think of how phrase the note. Then the school bus arrived. The author's spouse heaved a sigh, grabbed the pencil and notepad, wrote "Johnny was absent yesterday because he was sick," signed the note, and handed it to Johnny, who caught the bus.

 

[oakapple]

Common sense is not so common!