Ice Cubes
I was sitting in the staff room moaning about a bar stock count in the Bingo hall where I used to work. A lovely Scottish lady by the name of Kitty asked if she could help. With a flash of rare inspiration, I told her it would be great if she could count the ice cubes in the machine for me.

"Why do we need to count them?" she asked. I was stumped.

A colleague came to my rescue with the sublime, "To make sure it's working at optimum efficiency"... Good lad! We had formed a tag team.

"But won't they melt?" she wailed.

"Nah... You only lose about 20 per cent through melting," I told her, remebering a line from the seminal movie Brewster's Millions, "so we can adjust for that later."

Imagine my glee when I walked into the bar about 20 minutes later to discover her on her knees with a bin bag filled with ice cubes.

"But it keeps making more!"

Bless.
(Pocketjob, Tue 11 Jan 2005, 1:04, Reply)