The Blonde Painter

A blonde who had been unemployed for several months got a job withPublic Works. Her assignment was to paint lines down the center of arural road.

The supervisor told her that she was on probation and that shemust stay at or above the set average of 2 miles per day to remainemployed. The blonde agreed to the conditions and starts right away.

The supervisor checking up at the end of the day, found that theblonde had completed 4 miles on her first day, double the average!

"Great," he told her, "I think you're really going to work out."

The next day, however, he was disappointed to find that the blondeonly accomplished 2 miles. The supervisor thought, "Well she's still atthe average and I don't want to discourage her, so I'll just keepquiet."

The third day however the blonde only did one mile and the boss thought he better talk to her before it gets any worse.

The boss pulled the new employee in and says, "You were doing sogreat. The first day you did 4 miles, the second day 2 miles, butyesterday you only did one mile. Why? Is there a problem? An injury,equipment failure? What's keeping you from meeting the 2 mile average?"