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Automatic vigilance

By US Desk
10 February, 2023

When they finished, the senior supervisor, proud of his physical condition, challenged his younger co-worker to a foot race back to their truck....

COMIC RELIEF

Two natural gas company service personnel, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking metres in a suburban neighbourhood. They parked their truck at the end of an alley and worked their way to the other end.

Automatic vigilance

At the last house, a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as they checked her gas metre. When they finished, the senior supervisor, proud of his physical condition, challenged his younger co-worker to a foot race back to their truck.

As they approached the truck, they realised that the woman from the last house they checked was huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked her what was wrong.

Gasping for breath, she replied, ‘When I saw two gas men running as hard as you two were, I figured I’d better run, too!’

Automatic vigilance


Words of Wisdom

Automatic vigilance

* The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

* Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.

* A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

* For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

* To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

* Two wrongs are only the beginning.

* Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.

* The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.

* A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

* If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you’ve never tried before.

* Love may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

* Borrow money from pessimists, they don’t expect it back.

* Half the people you know are below average.

Automatic vigilance