This Week's Humor: Lawyers vs. MBAs

Hi everyone,

I hope all of you had a great Valentine's Day. I had a good time at the
Harvard Asian American Association conference. I met some really
interesting and cool speakers and conference participants, and welcome
several of them to this distribution list. I had a chance to meet
Connie Chung, speak to her, and sit at her table for the banquet
dinner.
Also, Gish Jen read from her new novel "Mona in the Promised Land",
which I thought was really funny and insightful. I bought a copy which
she signed. I highly recommend it. It's about a Chinese American
teenager, Mona Chang, whose family live in a predominantly Jewish suburb
in New York.

On another note, in case you have one of my old business cards, the
Boston office of Andersen Consulting has just moved. Our new address
is:

Andersen Consulting
100 Williams Street
Wellesley, MA 02181

The new toll-free number where you can leave me a message is:
1-888-454-4010, mailbox 8208. My direct work number is: (617)454-8208,
which will go into the voicemail system if I'm not at my desk.

Thanks again to Dave Shim, a corporate lawyer himself, for the humor
below. I found it to be really funny. Have a great week!

-Josh.
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> Three lawyers and three MBAs are traveling by train to a
> conference. At the station, the three MBAs each buy tickets and
> watch as the three lawyers buy only a single ticket.
>
> "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks an MBA.
>
> "Watch and you'll see," answers a lawyer.
>
> They all board the train. The MBAs take their respective seats
> but all three lawyers cram into a restroom and close the door
> behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor
> comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and
> says, "Ticket, please."
>
> The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket
> in hand. The conductor takes it and moves on.
>
> The MBAs saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So
> after the conference, the MBAs decide to copy the lawyers on
> the return trip and save some money (being clever with money, and
> all that). When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket
> for the return trip. To their astonishment, the lawyers don't buy
> a ticket at all.
>
> "How are you going to travel without a ticket?" says one perplexed
>MBA.
>
> "Watch and you'll see," answers a lawyer.
>
> When they board the train the three MBAs cram into a restroom and
> the three lawyers cram into another one nearby. The train departs.
> Shortly afterward, one of the lawyers leaves his restroom and walks
> over to the restroom where the MBAs are hiding. He knocks on the
> door and says, Ticket, please."