Riddles

Tonight at dinner with Matt, Katie, and Rachel, we sat around telling jokes and riddles. Okay, to be fair, most of them were my stupid (and some are really awful) jokes and riddles.

I thought I'd share a few of my favorites with you.

A group of 3 friends goes into a hotel and asks for one room for the night. The clerk tells them it is $30, so each friend chips in $10 to pay for the room. They go upstairs and get settled in. A little while later the manager is looking over the hotel records and realizes that the clerk overcharged them, as the room was on special right now for $25 a night. He handed the bell-hop 5 ones and sent him upstairs to give them their money and apologize for the mishap. On the way upstairs, the bell-hop thinks to himself, there are 3 friends, and they are going to have to split this amongst themselves. $5 doesn't split evenly. I'll just pocket $2, and give them $3 back. So the bell-hop returns the $3 and and apologizes for the mistake.

Okay, so each friend paid $10, but got $1 back, so they paid $9. 9 times 3 is 27. Plus the $2 the bell-hop pocketed, you get $29. So where did the other dollar go? (remember, they paid $30 originally)

Riddle #2
My first wears my second,
My third would be, what my first would acquire if he went to sea.
Put together my one, two, and three, and the Belle of New York is the girl for me.
(hint: the "first", "second", etc. are syllables of one word, that when said alone are also a word.)
(second hint: the answer is one word)
(third hint: pay attention to all the words in the riddle. they were all chosen very carefully)

Okay, now no cheating! Take some time to think them through, for more than a few minutes, before googling the answers. I'll post the answers soon. So don't ruin it for yourself, or others, and think about it for a bit.