Mag and Pat's On-line Show

CIKGU ARTHUR · Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: Mag and Pat:Dining in style

The Spoon

Last week, Mag & Pat took some friends out to a new posh restaurant, and Pat noticed that the waiter who took their order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket.

It seemed a little strange. When the busboy brought their water and utensils, Pat noticed he also had a spoon in his shirt pocket. Then Pat looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets. When the waiter came back to serve the soup, Pat asked, "Why the spoon?"

"Well," he explained, "the restaurant's owners hired Zul & Cash Consulting to revamp all our processes. After several months of analysis, they concluded that the spoon was the most frequently dropped utensil. It represents a drop frequency of approximately 3 spoons per table per hour. If our personnel are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen and save 15 man-hours per shift."

As luck would have it, Pat dropped his spoon and the waiter was able to replace it with his spare.

"I'll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now."

Pat was impressed. He also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter's fly. Looking around, Pat noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies.

So before he walked off, Pat asked the waiter, "Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?"

"Oh, certainly!" Then he lowered his voice. "Not everyone is so observant. That consulting firm I mentioned also found out that we could save time in the restroom. By tying this string to the tip of our "you know what", we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands, shortening the time spent in the restroom by 76.39 percent and furthermore, it helps save water!"

"After you get it out, how do you put it back?"

"Well," he whispered, "I don't know about the others, but I use the spoon."

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
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CIKGU ARTHUR
(Retired)