FURLOUGH FRIDAY.....
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 soda
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 after tossing the can into 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 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?"
"No, no, you don't understand, mister," one of the men said,leaning on his
shovel and wiping his brow, "You see, 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.
But you see with the government sequestering AND FURLOUGHING, they're
not buying any more trees, AND Elmer's job's been cut -
so it's just me an' Leroy now."****
