[2718] in Humor
Working for the County!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Descent God)
Tue Mar 16 18:47:20 1999
From: "Descent God" <descentr3@hotmail.com>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:45:23 PST
A fellow stopped at a rural gas station and, after filling his tank, he
paid the bill and bought a can of Coke. He stood by his car to drink
his Coke and he watched a couple of men working along the roadside. One
man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other
man came along behind and filled in the hole. While one was digging a
new hole, the other was about 25 feet behind filling in the old. The
men worked right past the fellow with the Coke and went on down the
road. "I can't stand this," said the man tossing the can in a trash can
and heading down the road toward the men.
"Hold it, hold it," he said to the men. "Can you tell me what's going on
here with this digging?"
"Well, we work for the county," one of the men said.
"But one of you is digging a hold and the other fills it up. You're not
accomplishing anything. Aren't you wasting the county's money?"
"You don't understand, mister," one of the men said, leaning on his
shovel and wiping his brow. "Normally there's three of us--me, Rodney
and Mike. I dig the hole, Rodney sticks in the tree and Mike here puts
the dirt back.
Now just because Rodney's sick, that don't mean that Mike and me can't
work."
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