Backwoods-Savage
01-21-2006, 05:45 PM
Three engineers and three accountants are traveling together by train to a convention. At the station, the three accountants each buy tickets and then watch as the three engineers buy only one single ticket. “How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?” asks one of the accountants. “Watch, and you’ll see,” answered one of the engineers. They all board the train. The accountants take their respective seats, but all three of the engineers cram themselves into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting passengers’ tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, “Ticket, please.” The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it, and moves on down that car and into the next one.
After he has gone, the engineers emerge from the restroom and take empty seats. The three accountants see all of this, and decide it is quite a clever idea. So, after the close of the convention, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money in the process (being frugal with funds, as is their reputation). So when they all get together at the station, the accountants buy just one single ticket for the return trip. But to their astonishment, the engineers do not buy a ticket at all. “How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one of the perplexed accountants. “Watch, and you’ll see,” answers one of the engineers. When they board the train this time, the three engineers once again cram themselves into a restroom and the three accountants do the same in another restroom at the other end of the car. The train departs. Immediately afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks down the car to the other restroom where the accountants are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please.”
After he has gone, the engineers emerge from the restroom and take empty seats. The three accountants see all of this, and decide it is quite a clever idea. So, after the close of the convention, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return trip and save some money in the process (being frugal with funds, as is their reputation). So when they all get together at the station, the accountants buy just one single ticket for the return trip. But to their astonishment, the engineers do not buy a ticket at all. “How are you going to travel without a ticket?” asks one of the perplexed accountants. “Watch, and you’ll see,” answers one of the engineers. When they board the train this time, the three engineers once again cram themselves into a restroom and the three accountants do the same in another restroom at the other end of the car. The train departs. Immediately afterward, one of the engineers leaves his restroom and walks down the car to the other restroom where the accountants are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, “Ticket, please.”