conference. At the station, the three accountants each bought tickets and
watched as the three engineers bought only one ticket.
"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asked an
accountant.
"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
They all boarded the train. The accountants took their respective seats,
but
the three engineers all crammed into a rest room and closed the door
behind
them. Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around collecting
tickets. He knocked on the restroom door and said, "Ticket, please".
The door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged with a ticket in hand.
The conductor took it and moved on.
The accountants saw this and agreed it was a quite clever idea. So,
after the
conference, the accountants decide to copy the engineers on the return
trip
and save some money (being clever with money, and all that). When they
got to
the station, they bought a single ticket for the return trip. To their
astonishment, the engineers didn't buy a ticket at all.
"How are you going to ride without a ticket"? said one perplexed accountant.
"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.
When they boarded the train, the three accountants crammed into a restroom
and the three engineers crammed into another one nearby. The train
departed.
Shortly afterward, one of the engineers left his restroom and walked
over to
the restroom where the accountants were hiding. He knocked on the door
and
said, "Ticket, please".
...taken from the archives of The Laffatorium (http://www.laffnow.com)
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