General Riddles

Forward I am heavy, but backward I am not. What am I?
Forward I am ton, backwards I am not

What is it that's always coming but never arrives?
Tomorrow.

Fill in the sequence: 1 2 3 2 1 2 3 4 2 ?
1 Explanation: Number of characters used in writing the numbers in roman numerals.

I have wheels and flies. But I don't have any wings. Who am I?
Garbage truck

When is a man drowned, but still not wet?
When he's trapped in quicksand.

I don't have legs but I have hands. I can run but I can't walk. Who am I?
A clock.

I am so fragile that even if anybody says my name I break. Who am I?

I am clean when I look black and dirty when I look white. Who am I?
Blackboard

If you have me, you want to share me. If you share me, you haven't got me. What am I?

There are a few trees in a garden. On one of them, a pear tree, there are pears (quite logical). But after a strong wind blew, there were neither pears on the tree nor on the ground. How come?
At first, there were 2 pears on the tree. After the wind blew, one pear fell on the ground. So there where no pears on the tree and there were no pears on the ground.

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