Tough Job Application

"My Father..."*

*Little Johnny was talking to a couple of boys in
the school yard. Each was bragging about how
great their fathers are.

The first one said: "Well, my father runs the fastest.
He can fire an arrow, and start to run, I tell you, he
gets there before the arrow!"

The second one said: "Ha! You think that's fast! My
father is a hunter. He can shoot his gun and be there
before the bullet!"

Little Johnny listened to the other two boys and
shook his head. He then said: "You two know
nothing about fast. My father is a civil servant.
He stops working at 4:30,... and he's home by 3:45!"

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"Tough Job Application"*

*Tom is applying for a job as a signalman for the local
railroad and is told to meet the inspector at the signal
box. The inspector decides to give Tom a pop quiz,
asking: "What would you do if you realized that two
trains were heading towards each other on the same track?"

Tom says: "I would switch one train to another track."

"What if the lever broke?" asks the inspector.

"Then I'd run down to the tracks and use the manual
lever down there," answers Tom.

"What if that had been struck by lightning?" challenges the inspector.

"Then," Tom continued, "I'd run back up here and use
the phone to call the next signal box."

"What if the phone was busy?"

"In that case," Tom argued, "I'd run to the street level
and use the public phone near the station."

"What if that had been vandalized?"

"Oh well," said Tom, "in that case I would run into town and get my
Uncle Leo.

This puzzled the inspector, so he asked "Why would you do that?"

"Because he's never seen a train crash."
Received on Wed Feb 24 07:23:10 2010