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.

Finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger
co-worker 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
huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked
her what was wrong.

Gasping for breath, she replied, "When I see two gas men running as hard as you two were, I figured I'd better run too!".