A bunch of Mudcatters worked at the same factory. One of them, Giok, was a little soft in the head. One afternoon the foreman walked through, looked up at the rafters and noticed Giok was up there with his knees hooked over a beam, hanging upside-down.

"What in tarnation do you think you're doing up there?" exclaimed the foreman. "Get down from there right now or you're fired!"

"I'm a lightbulb," asserted Giok.

"Lightbulb my *ss," shouted the foreman, "You've got 1 minute to get back down here and get to work."

Giok just kept hanging there, looking down at the man.

The foreman looked at his watch and counted down the seconds to one minute. "That's it." He said. "Get down from there, get your things and get out. You are out of a job as of now."

Giok climbed down from the rafters and headed for his locker. Much to the forman's surprise, all the other Mudcatters stopped what they were doing, and followed Giok out.

"Wait! Stop! Where do the rest of you think you're going. Get back to machines and quit wasting production time."

The 'Catters just kept walking as the foreman fumed and fussed. "I don't understand why the rest of you are walking out. You can see he wasn't doing his job!"

As the Mudcat crew walked out the door, one of them turned to the foreman and said "What did you think would happen? Surely you didn't expect us all to keep working in the dark!"

(ok, ok...I'll leave.....Janie)