Riddle Me This

[TPIR1990]

I love brain teasers, so I figured I'd start a thread up and post one once a day and see if anyone can figure it out. You may request clues, but only one per person. The clues will be a question with a yes or no answer. Good luck! Here's the first one.

A man lives on the tenth floor of a building. Every day, he takes the elevator to the first floor to go to work or to go shopping. When he returns, he always takes the elevator to the seventh floor and then walks the remaining flights of stairs to his apartment on the tenth floor. Why does he do this?

[themountainclimber]

 To tire himself to fall asleep faster!

[TPIR1990]

No. Good guess though.

[themountainclimber]

Does it have something to do with exercise?

[88JRFAN]

Man, that's a good one. is it a nasty thing?

[themountainclimber]

/\ Can he say something like that?/\

[88JRFAN]

don't worry mountain. i changed it so it's G rated

[therealcu2010]

I have an idea of what it could be...but I won't say anything yet.

[themountainclimber]

don't worry mountain. i changed it so it's G rated

Call me Hans

[GameShowFan1987]

He's too short to reach the 8 - 10 buttons.

[Scott5114]

The elevator's too $#@%! slow and he gets tired of waiting in it.

(I did this a lot when I lived in a building with a slow elevator. Most of the time I could get off at five and beat the elevator to seven.)

[Jnelson09]

He's too short to reach the 8 - 10 buttons.

You got it. I've seen this one all too often.

[TPIR1990]

He's too short to reach the 8 - 10 buttons.

Yup that's right. The man is a dwarf. He can reach the button in the elevator for the first floor, but he cannot reach the button for the tenth floor. The seventh floor button is the highest he can reach.

Okay, here's the next one, you have until Sunday, July 19 to solve it.

One night during the Second World War, an allied bomber was on a mission over Germany. The plane was in perfect condition and everything on it worked properly. When it had reached its target, the pilot ordered the bomb doors opened. They opened. He then ordered the bombs released. They were released. But the bombs did not fall from the plane. Why should this be so?

Good luck!

[noobslayer88]

Was the plane flying upside down? IDK.

[TPIR1990]

Wow, you are good!

Yes, the bomber was flying upside-down.

Okay, here's the next one, you have until Monday, July 21. Good luck!

Five pieces of coal, a carrot, and a scarf are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn, but there is a perfectly logical reason for their being there. What is it?