I'm promised in two to three business days, and you check on me ten times a day until I show up. What am I?
Hint: There's a tracking number involved.
Answer
An online order
Online orders come with delivery estimates and tracking you can refresh endlessly.
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I take years to build and only seconds to break, yet nobody has ever seen me. What am I?
Hint: Friends and families run on me.
Answer
Trust
Trust builds slowly over time and can be lost in an instant.
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Why don't skeletons ever pick fights with each other?
Hint: Look inside a skeleton.
Answer
They don't have the guts
Skeletons have no insides, and "guts" also means courage.
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What can you hold in your right hand but never in your left hand?
Hint: It's attached to you.
Answer
Your left elbow
Your right hand can grab your left elbow, but your left hand can't reach it.
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A doctor gives you three pills and tells you to take one every half hour. How long will they last?
Hint: You take the first one right away.
Answer
One hour
You take one now, one at 30 minutes and the last at 60 minutes.
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Everyone fills me, I get emptied once a week, and nobody ever wants to take me out. What am I?
Hint: I sit by the curb on pickup day.
Answer
The trash
Taking out the trash is everyone's least favorite chore.
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I'm green, I sit on lily pads, and I say "ribbit." What am I?
Hint: I can catch flies with my tongue.
Answer
A frog
Frogs are green, live near ponds and croak.
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I'm nothing but bones, I hang in the science classroom all year, and in October I move to your front porch. What am I?
Hint: I'm inside you right now.
Answer
A skeleton
Skeletons are classroom models most of the year and popular Halloween decorations in October.
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I crack open nuts, I wear a soldier's uniform, and I'm the star of a famous holiday ballet. What am I?
Hint: Tchaikovsky wrote my music.
Answer
A nutcracker
Nutcrackers are often shaped like soldiers and star in The Nutcracker ballet.
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I'm hot when you start me, cold by the time you remember me, and I've already been reheated twice. What am I?
Hint: Many people can't start the day without me.
Answer
Your coffee
Morning coffee is famous for going cold while you get busy.
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I belong to you, but other people use me far more than you do. What am I?
Answer
Your name
Other people say your name far more often than you do.
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What do you call a bull that's fast asleep?
Hint: Construction sites have big ones.
Answer
A bulldozer
A dozing bull is a "bull-dozer."
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