A guy stopped at a local 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 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 him and filled
in the hole. While one
was digging a new hole, the other was 25 feet behind filling in the hole.
The men worked right past the guy with the soft drink and went on
down the road.
"I can't stand this," said the man tossing the can into
a trash container and headed 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 all this digging and
refilling?"
"Well, we work for the government and we're just doing our
job," one of the men said.
"But one of you is digging a hole and the other fills it up.
You're not accomplishing
anything. Aren't you wasting the taxpayers' 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, Elmer and Leroy. I dig the hole,
Elmer sticks in the tree, and Leroy here puts the dirt
back.
You see with the government sequestering, they are not buying any
more trees so
Elmer's job's been cut ... so now
it's just me an' Leroy.
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