A fellow stopped at a rural gas station and, after filling
his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He
stood by his car to drink his cola 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 soft drink
and went on down the road. ''I can't stand this,'' said the
man tossing the can in a trash container 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 government, '' one of the men said.
''But one of you is digging a hole and the other is
filling 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, Joe and Mike. I dig the hole,
Joe sticks in the tree and Mike here puts the dirt back.''
''Yea,'' piped up Mike.
''Now just because Joe's sick, that don't mean we can't
work, does it?''
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