Subject: Southern Ingenuity
> One morning 3 South Georgia good ol' boys & 3 Yankees were in a ticket
> line
> at the Albany train station heading to Athens for a big football game.
>
> The 3 Northerners each bought a ticket & watched as the 3 Southerners
> bought just 1 ticket among them.
>
> "How are the 3 of you going to travel on 1 ticket?" asked one of the
> Yankees.
>
> "Watch & learn" answered 1 of the boys from the South.
>
> When the 6 travelers boarded the train, the 3 Yankees sat down, but the 3
> Southerners crammed
into a bathroom together & closed the door.
>
> Shortly after the train departed, the conductor came around to collect
> tickets.
>
> He knocked on the bathroom door & said, "Ticket, please." the door opened
> just a crack & a single arm emerged w/a ticket in hand. The Conductor
> took it & moved on.
>
> The Yankees saw this happen & agreed it was quite a clever idea. Indeed,
> so clever that they decided to do the same thing on the return trip & save
> some money.
>
> That evening after the game when they got to the Charlotte train station,
> they bought a single ticket for the return trip while to their
> astonishment
> the 3 Southerners didn't buy even 1 ticket.
>
> "How are you going to travel w/out a ticket?" asked one of the perplexed
> Yankees.
>
> "Watch & learn", answered 1 of the Southern boys.
>
> When they boarded the train the 3 Northerners crammed themselves into a
> bathroom & the 3 Southerners crammed themselves into the other bathroom
> across from it.
>
> Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Southerners left their
> bathroom & walked quietly over to the Yankee's bathroom. He knocked on
> the door & said "Ticket, please".
>
> There's just no way on God's green earth to explain how the Yankees won
> the War.
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