Fast Gas
Two gas
company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking
meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck at the end of the alley and
worked their way to the other end. At the last house an older woman was looking out her
kitchen window watching the two men as they checked her gas meter.
Finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger coworker to a foot
race down the alley back to the truck to prove that an older guy could outrun a younger
one.
As they came running up to the truck, they realized the lady from that last house was
huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked her what was wrong.
Gasping for breath, she replied, "When I see two gas men running as hard as you two
were, I figure I'd better run too!"