He rang the room next door, which he could work out from his own room number. The snorer woke up and stopped, and both of them got some sleep.
A man is lying awake in his hotel room. He picks up the phone, rings a number, says nothing at all, hangs up and goes straight to sleep. Why?
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The call did exactly what he wanted it to.
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The man next door was snoring, and the call woke him
Source: Agnes Rogers, How Come?, 1953, via Jed Hartman’s list of situation puzzles, no. 1.63