Utah phillips tells that string story
and it has a spoon in it too..it appears
an efficiency expert visited the cafe'
and found that every time someone dropped
their spoon and asked for a new spoon, the
waiters had to go to the kitchen to get one.
They were instructed to carry a spare spooon
in their pockets for such requests. they also
were told that it was taking entirely too much
time every time they went to the "bathroom" due
to having to wash their hand each time,so the
string thing was rigged up. and the spoon was
used to return the body part into the pants again.