Knowing Where to Tap
A
certain town in New England experienced a prolonged electrical failure.
The best engineers at the power plant were unable to restore the power,
whereupon one citizen recalled that a former engineer, now in
retirement but living only a few miles away, might be consulted. He was
brought in. He inspected the plant, the generators; then he took a
wooden mallet and tapped in several places. Instantly the lights came
on, whereupon he submitted this itemized bill to the town fathers: “2¢
for tapping; $1,000 for knowing where to tap.”
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