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Boris Godunov
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Portland, OR
Aug 2001
time: 00:27
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A guy is eating lunch in a fancy restaurant, and notices his waiter has a spoon sticking up out of his shirt pocket. A quick glance around the room, and sure enough, every waiter has a spoon in his pocket.
So when the waiter comes to take his order, the man inquires as to what the deal with the spoons was.
"We had a consultant come in a few weeks ago," explains the young man, "and he discovered the most commonly-dropped utensil was a spoon, and we wasted far too much time bending over, getting the spoons, taking them to the kitchen, getting a new spoon, bringing them back, etc. So now we all keep a spare spoon on us, and whenever a customer drops one, I can just hand him the spoon from my pocket, and get a new one to replace it when I'm back in the kitchen anyway."
The man thinks that's a pretty clever idea, but then notices, much to his embarassment, that the waiter has a white string dangling from the zipper in his trousers. After pointing this out, the waiter explains:
"Oh no, sir...that's the consultant again. Look around." Sure enough, every waiter had a white string dangling from his trousers.
"You see," says the waiter, "the consultant felt we wasted far too much time washing our hands in the bathroom. So instead, we go in, pull it out with the string and do our business, so we never have to actually touch it.
"Ah!" says the man, "that is indeed a time-saver!" He then pauses and thinks for a second. "Wait a minute...I can see how that would work to get it out, but, um, how do you get it back in without touching it?"
"That's tricky," says the waiter, "but personally, I found it's easiest to use a spoon."
*rimshot*
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06-05-2003 17:08
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