The man who pushed his car to a hotel
A man pushes his car along until he reaches a hotel. As soon as he arrives, he realises he is bankrupt.
Why? Every word of the story is literally true; the puzzle is to find the setting in which all of them make sense at once.
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The car is very small.
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