Eyes

Oops! Can't give WG a greenie, as usual.
I'm bad, sayeth Alty. Wow, I haven't felt so good in years. Even watching Breaking Bad and identifying with both guys, and feeling mostly disgruntled with both women.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Why on earth are parents ringing the doorbell at 3 a.m. for breakfast? NO ONE eats breakfast at 3 a.m. If they are hungry, they should go to Denny's or some open-all-night diner. It would be the height of disrespect to wake up your child at that godforsaken hour of the morning -- just to expect breakfast???

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Imagine how I feel. My parents are deceased, as are my husbands. If they came over for breakfast at 3am, or any time, I'd be freaked right out.

Having said that, I told my husband the riddle. His answer "Gun cabinet, because nothing good is at your door at 3am. If it is our parents, they're zombies. So either way, gun cabinet".

Oops, can't give Alty a greenie either.

Light!

The riddle says, "you wake up." This implies your eyes are already open to see that it is your parents. By the end of the riddle, when it asks what you open first, you would open the door first because your eyes are already open. Whoever "designed" this riddle didn't put enough thought into it. OR whoever thought the answer would be "eyes" didn't fully understand the riddle.

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Originally Posted by cjejnj080912

The riddle says, "you wake up." This implies your eyes are already open to see that it is your parents.

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I can wake up and not open my eyes.

And I wouldn't see my parents at the front door until I actually walked to the door and opened it.

Let's make this easier for those who are stuck on semantics. Many people, like myself, have conditions that make their eyes stick shut while they sleep. So, when *I* wake up the right one opens freely. The left I have to convince. The answer is therefore correct. What is the first thing I open? My eye. Then I open the other one. Are we good now?

Alty, my sweet, methinks you have created a monster thread with this riddle.

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

Alty, my sweet, methinks you have created a monster thread with this riddle.

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I agree.

Here's the thing, I do agree with those that said the riddle was written in a way where door seemed like the most logical answer. That's why I answered door, because on awakening I open my eyes, which would mean that my eyes would open as soon as the doorbell rang. But, they are still the first thing I opened. They wouldn't have been opened if the doorbell hadn't rang.

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The riddle says, "you wake up." This implies your eyes are already open to see that it is your parents.

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You wake up doesn't imply your eyes are already open unless you sleep with your eyes open

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Originally Posted by Wondergirl

I can wake up and not open my eyes.

And I wouldn't see my parents at the front door until I actually walked to the door and opened it.

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;) but wouldn't you open your eyes to learn that it's your parents at the door? - or are you normally in the habit of answering the door with your eyes shut?

semantics ;)

That said - if my parents were dead :/ I wouldn't be opening the door to them as at this time of year wouldn't probably make them Zombies!

... and who's parents turn up at 03:00 expecting to be made breakfast? - Go Make It Yourself! ;)

P.S. Riddles are all about supplying misleading information... The crucial aspect is the first action, so you look at the start: clue: "you wake up"