ARE YOU SMARTER THAN CRIMINALS?

It was a rainy day and Alan, a taxi driver, saw someone on the street waving at him. He stopped the car so the passenger could get in. The passenger didn’t look like the ordinary ones he usually found at that time of the day. He was an elderly man, had a long white beard and was wearing a long white robe. He looked like a holy man out of a Hollywood film. The old man told Alan the destination and asked him to take the road around the city to get there faster. On the way, he talked about how it was kind to pick up people who needed a ride and were standing under the rain. 

Suddenly, the old man pointed to a couple who were wet and needed a ride. Alan didn’t want to look bad, so he stopped to pick them up and prove to the old man that he was kind to people. The couple thanked Alan for his help, and the old man continued the conversation with Alan. In the middle of the way, the woman in the back seat asked Alan, ‘Sir, who are you talking to?’ Alan answered, ‘What do you mean? I’m talking to this gentleman here. He asked me to pick you up.’ The man sitting next to the woman said, ‘Sir, are you OK? There’s no one sitting next to you.’ Alan looked at the old man and then the confused faces of the couple. He thought that the old man was a ghost, so he stopped the car and ran out of the car. The old man quickly jumped behind the wheel and drove the car away!