Last week, we took some friends out to a new restaurant, and
noticed that the waiter "Lil Johnny," took our order carried a spoon in his shirt pocket.
It seemed a little strange.
I noticed he also had a spoon in his pants pocket.
Then I looked around and saw that all the staff had spoons in their pockets.
When Lil Johnny came back to serve our soup I asked,
Is the spoon the most frequently dropped piece of cutlery?
"If our staff are better prepared, we can reduce the number of trips back to the kitchen
and save 15 man-hours per shift."
As luck would have it, I dropped my spoon and
Lil Johnny was able to replace it with his spare.
"I’ll get another spoon next time I go to the kitchen instead of making an extra trip to get it right now."
I was impressed. I also noticed that there was a string hanging out of the waiter’s zip on his trousers.
Looking around, I noticed that all the waiters had the same string hanging from their flies.
So before Lil Johnny walked off, I asked ,
"Excuse me, but can you tell me why you have that string right there?"
"Oh, certainly!" Then he lowered his voice. "Not everyone is so observant.
By tying this string to the tip of you know what,
we can pull it out without touching it and eliminate the need to wash our hands,
shortening the time spent in the rest-room by 76.39 per cent."
I asked "After you get it out, how do you put it back?"
"Well," Lil Johnny whispers,
"I don’t know about the others, but I use the spoon." ...
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