Subject: Engineers....


A pastor, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a
particularly slow group of golfers.

Engineer: What's with these guys? We must have been waiting for 15
minutes!
Doctor: I don't know, but I've never seen such ineptitude!
Pastor: Hey, here comes the course Marshall. Let's have a word with
him.[dramatic pause] Hi George. Say, what's with that group ahead of us?
They're rather slow, aren't they?
George: Oh, yes, that's a group of blind firefighters. They lost
their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let
them play for free anytime.

The group was silent for a moment.

Pastor: That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for them
tonight.
Doctor: Good idea. And I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist buddy
and see if there's anything he can do for them.
Engineer: Why can't these guys play at night?

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Three engineers and three mathematicians are traveling by train to a
conference. At the station, the three mathematicians each buy tickets and
watch as the three engineers buy only a single ticket.

"How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a
mathematician.

"Watch and you'll see," answers an engineer.

They all board the train. The mathematicians take their respective
seats, but all three engineers cram into a restroom and close the door 
behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes 
around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says,  
"Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges 
with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.

The mathematicians see this and agree it is quite a clever idea. So
after the conference, the mathematicians decide to copy the engineers 
on the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and 
all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for 
the return trip. To their astonishment, the engineers don't buy a ticket 
at all.

"How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asks one perplexed
mathematician.

"Watch and you'll see," answers a engineer.

When they board the train, the three mathematicians cram into one
restroom and the three engineers cram into another one nearby. The 
train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the engineers leaves his 
restroom and walks over to the restroom where the mathematicians are 
hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please."