An Interesting Worker...

Every night a worker who was employed in a Russian factory would leave the grounds, trundling a wheelbarrow. When the suspicious guard examined its contents, he found only straw or sawdust. Since these were waste materials which nobody wanted, he allowed the worker to pass through the gate. This continued for several years, and never did he find anything except straw or sawdust. Finally this worker retired, and the guard saw him no more until he met him by chance on the street. He was eager to solve the mystery which had puzzled him for so many years, and had an opportunity to satisfy his curiosity. "Now that you no longer work at the plant," asked the guard, "won't you tell me what you were stealing in that wheelbarrow? You certainly had no use for that straw and sawdust." The man simply replied, "I was stealing wheelbarrows."