The Signalman job

Santa is applying for a job as a signalman for the local railroad and is told to meet the inspector at the signal box. The inspector decides to give Santa a pop quiz, asking: `What would you do if you realized that two trains were heading towards each other on the same track?` Santa says: `I would switch one train to another track.` `What if the lever broke?` asks the inspector. `Then I`d run down to the tracks and use the manual lever down there`, answers Santa. `What if that had been struck by lightning?` challenges the inspector. `Then,` Santa continued, `I`d run back up here and use the phone to call the next signal box.` `What if the phone was busy?` `In that case,` Santa argued, `I`d run to the street level and use the public phone near the station`. `What if that had been vandalized?` `Oh well,` said Santa, `in that case I would run into town and get my Uncle Bhalla`. This puzzled the inspector, so he asked, `Why would you do that?` `Because he`s never seen a train accident.`

 

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