The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119251   Message #2585912
Posted By: JohnInKansas
10-Mar-09 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: The soft side of hard times
Subject: RE: BS: The soft side of hard times
Thead drift:

Sage, changing a headlamp bulb via the tailgate? No wonder chargeout rates are high. :)

The story is circulated by email forwarders (we know who they are) about the gynocologist who's practice was failing and he was under lots of stress so he decided to change his occupation.

After casting about a bit, he decided that auto mechanics were making pretty good money, and it seemed to be a fairly low-stress job, so he enrolled in a school that promised to make him a "certified first-class mechanic."

He studied very hard, and did his best to learn it all; but he was told by his fellow students that the final exam was really difficult, so he applied himself diligently to attempt to learn everything possible about everything that might be on the test.

When he received the result for his final exam, he was puzzled that his score was shown as "150 point" when it was supposed to be a 100-point exam.

When he questioned his instructor about the discrepancy, the instructor replied that he had disassembled the entire engine and transmission correctly and that was worth 50 points.

He had also awarded 50 points for correctly assembling the entire engine and transmission.

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The other 50 points was because the instructor had never seen anyone do the whole job from the tailpipe end, working through the muffler.

John