Mike Dilger on Nostr: My dad used to work for the Air Force as a civil servant. And he had this joke about ...

My dad used to work for the Air Force as a civil servant. And he had this joke about civil servants.

Some psychologists did an experiment. They had a top mathematician, a top physicist, and a top civil servant. Each was confined to a small cubicle room with no windows and just the one door for 24 hours without food or water. They gave them each 3 steel balls (bearings) and came back 24 hours later to see what had transpired.

In the mathematicans room they discovered that all three balls were perfectly balanced on top of each other in the middle of the room, and the mathematician was sitting against the wall pleased as punch.

In the physicists room, to their amazement, the three balls were hovering in space, and the physicist was sitting in the corner mumbling about equasions.

In the civil servants room they found that he had lost one, he broke one, and the third one was in his lunchbox as he intended to take it home with him.