[1332] in Humor
HUMOR: Have you seen it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Fri Mar 1 09:13:23 1996
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 09:06:08 EST
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 1996 00:06:38 -0800
From: connie@interserve.com (Connie Kleinjans)
Subject: HUMOR: We don't need no stinking badges!
From: fred@babbage.CPost.Boole.COM (Fred Jacobson x3282)
<forwards holding their badges in their teeth>
I work at <a utility company> that has security card readers on all of
the entrances, exits, and important internal doors. Employees must
have their credit card-like ID cards to run across the scanner, or they
cannot open the doors.
This morning, a co-worker of mine left to run across the street to the
gas station to pick up some candy bars and pops for all of us minding
the fort. When he got back, however, he found that he could not work
the door mechanism, hold the drinks, and hold his card up against the
scanner at the same time. After several trials, he managed to do it by
holding the card against the scanner with his head, and turning the
knob with the hands holding the drinks.
He then walked through the entire length of the building, climbed three
flights of stairs, and eventually came to the computer room, which
again required his ID -- only he didn't have it.
He sat the drinks on the ground, and searched his pockets; nothing.
"Great," he thought, "I must have dropped it in the hall." So he
backtracked all along his path, looking for places he might have
dropped it; but no luck.
He finally got to the front door, which had just been opened up by the
morning security guard. "Um, hi," he said to the guard, "I was through
here not five minutes ago."
The guard looked at him. "Uh-huh."
"...but I can't, for the life of me, seem to find my ID."
"Uh-huh."
"I had it to get through the door, but then I didn't have it when I got
to the next one."
"Uh-huh."
"I've gone back along my entire path, and I just couldn't find it."
"Uh-huh."
"Have you seen it?"
And the guard said: "Yes. It's stuck to your forehead."
