Nobody answered yesterday's riddle... The practice originated to ensure that the clerk had to open the till and give change for each transaction, thus recording the sale and preventing him from pocketing the bank notes.

Onto today's riddle...

It was a dark stormy night and a couple were in a car racing madly through a foreign city. The car broke down and the husband had to go get help from someone who spoke his language. He was afraid to leave his wife alone in the car so he pulled up the windows and locked the car before leaving. When he came back, the car was in the same state as he had left it but his wife was dead, there was blood on the floor and there was a stranger in the car. What happened?

I hope im supposed to answer on this topic

the wife was pregnant and they were rushing to the hospital. The man stopped to get directions. when he was gone the mother had died giving birth and the baby is the stranger