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 breakfast 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 breakfast. Now I do it in ten.”

On a rural road a state trooper pulled this farmer over and said: “Sir, do you realize your wife fell out of the car several miles back?”

The farmer replied: “Thank God, I thought I had gone deaf!”

The angry wife met her husband at the door. His breath stunk ofalcohol and his face was plastered with lipstick. “I assume,” shebarked, “there is a very good reason for you to come drifting inat six o’clock in the morning?”"There is!” he replied, “Breakfast.”