Date with a Deaf woman(tested me with a riddle?)

[MrTurk]

Earlier in the year I met a deaf woman at a coffee shop for a first meeting via OLD.

 

If I remember correctly she was taking classes in psychology, and some classes that had to do with teaching/helping deaf kids.

 

She was really into the human mind, how people act, and all that jazz...as I am too. Thats part of what brought us together, was our shared interests.

 

We sat at the coffee shop for about 30 mins or so, talked, got to know each other. There is a book store right around the corner...so I asked if she'd like to take a walk and browse around, she said yes.

 

After some time looking around in the book store, sharing comments about our interests....she stops and asks me the following so called "riddle"....

 

-A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, met this guy whom

she did not know. She thought this guy was amazing, so much her dream

guy she believed him to be just that! She fell in love with him right

there, but never got his number and could not find him. A few

days later she killed her sister.

 

Question: What is her motive in killing her sister?

 

 

Answer:She was hoping that the guy would appear at the funeral again.

 

Before she asked me the question...she stated I had to answer quickly, and that only a small percentage of people get it right. My first initial reaction was the correct answer....but being the over analyzer that I am....I gave a different answer.

 

After I gave the wrong answer....I felt she changed her demeanor....it was as if she used that to test me, and see if I would pass. After we parted ways, I tried for another date, and of course that was a no-go.

 

Have any of you ladies on here ever done anything like that...testing a guy with anything, and letting his reaction be the yay or nay in your decision???

 

 

 

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[2sure]

I have a shoe thing that's a deal breaker , but no riddles.

Clearly she and I have different priorities!

[ja123]

Firstly, it's an interesting riddle, and the way you framed it with the backstory of psychology, I admit I was taken of the path of the obvious and was looking for some Freudian explanation or Greek myth theory.

 

But, to get to your question ...

 

No, I have never tested a guy in such a manner. If this is the reason she refused another date with you, then it's her lost. There's a lot of different reasons why someone might not come up with the answer, especially with first date nerves. Plus, there are different types of intelligence. Would you really want to be with someone so categorical and dismissive?

 

I am a little confounded, though, why you would mention that the woman's deaf. I don't see what bearing that has on the situation.

[Tina747]

Actually, I have heard of this riddle. I read about it in a Psychology Journal... It was about how psychologists presented this riddle to a control group of prison convicts to test for sociopathic tendencies or psychopathology. In a high percentage, if the convict got the riddle right, he was most likely a psychopath or a sociopath. It has to do with the fact that if the convict got the riddle right it meant he "thought like a sociopath". You knowing the answer does not mean you are one though (since you mentioned you really knew the answer)... maybe you are just very creative and smart and would be good at writing murder mysteries (because you can think like a psychopath), lol. Anyway, it is true about the riddle... you can google it to see.... Weird though, she was turned off because she thought you did NOT know the answer. Because if you got it right, she would have thought you were a psychopath!

Edited July 18, 2013 by Tina747
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[MrTurk]

 

I am a little confounded, though, why you would mention that the woman's deaf. I don't see what bearing that has on the situation.

 

Yea, I'm just kind of detail oriented when I explain things sometimes