A passer by noticed a couple of city workers who were busy working along the city sidewalks.
Every so often they would stop, the first worker would dig hole, and then the second worker would fill it in again. Then they would move on a few yards and do the same routine all over again.
The man was really impressed with their hard work, but he was completely dumbfounded as to what they were doing.
Finally, he approached the workers and asked, “I appreciate how hard you are both working, but what the heck are you doing? It seems that one of you digs a hole, and then the other one immediately fills it back up again”.
One of the city workers explained to him, “There are normally three of us. The third guy who plants the trees is off sick today”.
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