A man stopped at a rural gas station and, after filling his tank, he paid the bill and bought a soft drink. He stood by his car to drink his cola and he watched a couple of men working along the roadside. One man would dig a hole two or three feet deep and then move on. The other man came along behind and filled the hole back. While one was digging a new hole, the other was about 25 feet behind filling in the old. The men worked right past the fellow with the soft drink and went on down the road. “I can’t understand this,” said the man tossing the can in a trash container and heading down the road toward the men.

“Hello you there,” he said to the men. “Can you tell me what’s going on here with this digging?”

“Well, we work for the county government, ” one of the men said.

“But one of you is digging a hole and the other is filling it up. You’re not accomplishing anything. In this way you are wasting the county’s money?”

“You don’t understand, mister,” one of the men said, leaning on his shovel and wiping his brow. “Normally there’s three of us–me, Sandy and Mac. I dig the hole, Sandy sticks in the tree and Mac here puts the dirt back.”

“Yea,” piped up Mac. “Now just because Sandy’s sick, but that don’t mean we can’t work, does it?”

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