Expert advice
An efficiency expert
concluded his lecture with a note of caution. "You don't want to
try these techniques at home."
"Why not?" asked
someone in the audience.
"I watched my wife's
routine at breakfast for years," the expert explained. "She
made lots of trips to the refrigerator, stove and table, often carrying
just a single item. So I suggested, 'Honey, why don't you try carrying
several things at once?'"
Another person asked,
"Did it save time?"
The expert replied,
"Actually, it did. It used to take her twenty minutes to get
breakfast ready...and now I do it in about ten."
Income tax officer
Three guys were talking in
the local bar. The manager was so sure that its bouncer was the
strongest man around that it offered a standing $1,000 bet that no could
beat him.
The challenge was that the
landlord would squeeze a lemon until all the juice ran out into a beer
glass, then hand the lemon to the customer. Anyone who could squeeze
even one more drop out of the lemon would win the money. Over the years
many people had tried this, truck drivers, weightlifters, karate
masters, and all had failed. Then one day this frail and lanky little
man with heavy black rimmed glasses came into the bar and asked if he
could try the challenge.
After the laughter had
subsided the landlord said that it was only fair that the man be given a
chance at the bet, so he picked up a lemon and started squeezing. Once
he was done he handed the remains to the little man who promptly
squeezed out 4 more drops of juice onto the bar!
Everyone looked on in
amazement as the landlord handed over the prize and asked, "What do
you do for a living that has given you such strength? Are you a
lumberjack, weightlifter, what?" "No" the man replied,
"I work for the Income Tax Department."
(Culled from the Net by
Sunil Sharma)
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