VANILLA

A woman from Rochester, Michigan, took her car to the garage and told the mechanic that it was behaving strangely. She explained that every time she went to the local grocery shop to buy vanilla ice cream, the car would fail to start on her return. She continued that if she bought any other flavour, the car started fine. The mechanic thought the woman must be mad, but he agreed to try to repair the car. However, on examining the engine, he could find nothing wrong, so he decided to go buy some ice cream himself to test the woman's story. The mechanic drove the car to the grocery shop and bought a large tub of vanilla ice cream. Like the woman had told him, the car refused to start. Eventually, the mechanic worked out that the grocery shop took longer to get vanilla ice cream than any other flavour because it was the only one that wasn't pre-packed. It seemed the car didn't start because it remained idle for the amount of time it took to buy vanilla ice cream.

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