Two natural gas company service personnel, a senior training
supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking meters in a
suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck at the end of an
alley and worked their way to the other end.
At the last house, a woman looking out her kitchen window watched
the two men as they checked her gas meter. When they finished, the
senior supervisor, proud of his physical condition, challenged his
younger co-worker to a foot race back to their truck.
As they approached the truck, they realized that the woman from the
last house they checked was huffing and puffing right behind them.
They stopped and asked her what was wrong.
Gasping for breath, she replied, "When I saw two gas men running as
hard as you two were, I figured I'd better run, too!"
