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Hi Larry,
This reminds me of a story I once heard about an asylum where they were overcrowded. They decided to assess the patients and see if any could be sent home.
They waited till dark, lined the patients up in the courtyard, stood a powerful torch on the ground pointing into the sky and asked the first patient to climb the beam of light.
After several moments of trying, they sent the patient back to his room. They repeated this throughout the queue and were despairing that their overcrowding problem would not be solved as each desperately tried to climb the beam of light.
Finally they got to the very last patient and asked him to climb the beam. "You gotta be joking! I'm not climbing that." He said.
Relived that their efforts were not in vain, they told him to go and pack his bags and meet them back in the court yard, which he did.
"Before you go" asked the warden, "Why did you refuse to climb the beam?"
"I know what you lot are like." He replied. "You would have waited till I got half way up and then turned the torch off!"
I wonder if they gave him any Ice Cream to take home with him???
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