| The Experiment
An efficiency expert
concluded his lecture with a note of caution.
"You need to be careful
about trying these techniques at home."
"Why?" asked somebody from the
audience.
"I watched my wife's routine at dinner for years," the expert
explained. "She made lots of trips between the refrigerator, stove, table and
cabinets, often carrying a single item at a time.
One day I told her,
'Honey, why don't you try carrying several things at once?'
"Did it save
time?" the guy in the audience asked.
"Actually, yes," replied the expert.
"It used to take her 30 minutes to make dinner. Now I do it in ten..."
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