RAY: My son comes to me a few weeks ago, my older son, Louie, who's been driving -- who drives my truck and he says dad, there is something wrong with the truck. I say what, out of gas again? He says no, no, he says I start the thing up in the morning and I drive it and he said the radio stops working and the tape player won't work. The whole thing is dead. He said and I drive it for a little bit and it comes on all by itself and it goes off. So I decide to fix it.

TOM: Sure.

RAY: So I take the thing into the shop one day and I notice as I'm driving to work...

TOM: The tape player stops working.

RAY: Stops working. But I do notice something interesting. When I step on the gas, it stops working. When I take my foot off the gas...

TOM: Whooo.

RAY: And go to the step on the brake, it comes back.

TOM: Oooh.

RAY: I take my foot off the brake, I step on the gas and accelerate.

TOM: No kidding.

RAY: It goes out. I said huh.

TOM: You know he didn't notice that because he doesn't have the fine skills.

RAY: Right, he's not tuned in.

TOM: Not tuned in.

RAY: And he couldn't tune in because the radio doesn't work. So he wasn't tuned in so I discovered this and I say huh? There's got to be a loose wire under the dash. When I step on the gas pedal, somehow or another the throttle cable is moving this wire when I take my foot off the gas.

TOM: Yeah, it will be a piece of cake to fix this baby.

RAY: Piece of cake. After two hours under the dashboard, I had the worst headache and no solution. In fact I determined there is no loose wire and there is current getting to the radio and in fact the whole time I'm in the shop, I've got the key on and I'm moving everything around.

TOM: Nothing.

RAY: Everything works perfectly. I cannot make it not work. So I say huh, I gave up on it that day and on driving it home it of course did the same thing. I noticed it when I pushed in the cigarette lighter, the radio worked.

TOM: Worked!

RAY: I pulled out the cigarette lighter, the radio stopped working.

TOM: Whooo.

RAY: I push in the cigarette lighter and I'm holding it in, I'm holding it in Jerry! The radio is working the whole time until the cigarette lighter fuse blows, the radio stops working.

TOM: Wow.

RAY: I say Sonja Hene's Tutu!

TOM: Wow.

RAY: I continue driving home and I realize that I can't see.

TOM: You've gone blind?

RAY: I've gone blind. A non-functional radio causes blindness, and I can't see because I have no headlights. Both of my headlights are not working.

TOM: What a coincidence.

RAY: What a coincidence I think until the light bulb goes on and I realize what's happening. Now I could give you a lot more clues.

TOM: No, I got plenty.

RAY: I think that may be enough.

TOM: I've got enough. It's enough for me.

RAY: Well, why didn't you tell me what was wrong with it? It took me another two weeks to figure it out.

TOM: Yeah, great.

RAY: So if you think...

TOM: Great puzzler.