southern ingenuity

Joined
Mar 17, 2010
Location
central california
#1
One morning 3 South Carolina good old boys and
3 Yankees were in a ticket line at the Greenville
train station heading to Charlotte for a big football game.
The 3 Northerners each bought a ticket and watched
as the 3 Southerners bought just one ticket among them.

"How are the 3 of you going to travel on one 1 ticket?"
asked one of the Yankees.

"Watch and learn" answered one of the boys from the South.

When the 6 travelers boarded the train, the 3 Yankees sat down, but
the 3 Southerners crammed into a bathroom together and closed the
door.

Shortly after the train departed, the conductor
came around to collect tickets.

He knocked on the bathroom door and said, "tickets
please." the door opened just a crack and a single arm emerged
with a ticket in hand. The Conductor took it and moved on.

The Yankees saw this happen and agreed it was quite a clever idea..
Indeed, so clever that they decided to do the same thing on the
return trip and save some money.

That evening after the game when they got to the
Charlotte train station, they bought a single ticket for
the return trip while to their astonishment the 3
Southerners didn't buy even 1 ticket.

"How are you going to travel without a ticket?"
asked one of the perplexed Yankees.

"Watch and learn", answered one of the Southern boys.

When they boarded the train the 3 Northerners crammed themselves
into a bathroom and the 3 Southerners crammed themselves into the
other bathroom across from it.

Shortly after the train began to move, one of the Southerners left
their bathroom and walked quietly over to the Yankee's bathroom. He
knocked on the door and said "ticket please".



There's just no way on God's green earth to explain
how the Yankees won the war...