An efficiency expert concluded his lecture with a note of caution. “You don’t
want to try these techniques at home.”
� Why not?” asked somebody from the audience.
� I watched my wife’s routine at breakfast for years,” the expert explained.
“She made lots of trips between the refrigerator, stove, table and cabinets,
often carrying a single item at a time. One day I told her, ‘Hon, why don’t you
try carrying several things at once?'”
� Did it save time?” the person in the audience asked.
� Actually, yes,” replied the expert. “It used to take her 20 minutes to make
breakfast. Now I do it in seven.”