The Spoon


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John and Adam are sitting in a restaurant waiting to be served. Adam notices something and begins to nudge John with his elbow. Adam says, ?John, look at the waiters. Look at their breast pocket.? John looks and notices that all the waiters have teaspoons in their pocket. John calls one of the waiters over to their table. When a waiter arrives, John asks, ?What?s with the teaspoons in the breast pocket?? The waiter replies, ?The owner of the eatery decided to hire a firm to determine how we, the staff, could wait on the customers efficiently. We were told to carry teaspoons in our breast pocket.? The waiter continued, ?You see, the firm found that we waste sixty percent of our time retrieving clean utensils from the kitchen. They noted that the utensil most often dropped is the teaspoon. ?Just then, John moved his elbow and knocked his teaspoon off the table and onto the floor. The waiter said, ?Case in point. I?ll replace the teaspoon you dropped with the clean spoon in my pocket. Now, I?ll take your order and the order of another customer, go to the kitchen, deliver both orders, and replace the dirty spoon with a clean one.? John and Adam thought that was a great idea and expressed their agreement with the policy. Their order came and they ate their respective meal. Afterward, John and Adam ordered dessert.

John was eating with the spoon given to him by the waiter. Just then, Adam began to nudge John again. John responded in an annoyed fashion, ?What do you want now?? Adam said, ?Look at the zipper of all the male waiters.? John was shocked by Adam?s request and responded, ?What? Are you nuts?? Adam insisted, so John looked. John couldn?t believe his eyes. All the male waiters had a string hanging from their zipper. John called the waiter over again and asked, ?What?s with the string hanging from the zipper of your pants?? The waiter replied, ?Oh, remember the efficiency firm I was telling you about earlier? Well, they found that the other forty percent of our time was wasted washing our hands in the bathroom. They said that we could avoid washing our hands if we tie a string around it and pull it out using the string.? John asked, ?If you use the string to get it out, how do you get it back in?? The waiter leaned very close to John?s ear and replied, ?I don?t know about the others, but I use the spoon.?

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