Two gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were out checking meters in a suburban neighbourhood.
They parked their truck at the end of the alley and worked their way to the other end.
At the last house, a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as they checked her gas meter.
After finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger coworker to a foot race down the alley back to the truck to prove that an older guy could outrun a younger one.
As they came running up to the truck,
They realized the lady from that last house was ...