“To me there are three things everyone should do every day. Number one is laugh. Number two is think – spend some time in thought. Number three, you should have your emotions move you to tears.”
-Jimmy Valvano
Life and leadership throw a lot of curveballs at us, and sometimes all we can do is laugh it off. So, as we end the first quarter and have a new quarter in front us of, and in honor of April Fool’s Day, I thought we should end the week with a joke:
“An engineer dies and reports to the pearly gates. St. Peter checks his dossier and says, ‘Ah, you’re an engineer – you’re in the wrong place.’ So, the engineer reports to the gates of hell and is let in. Pretty soon, the engineer gets dissatisfied with the level of comfort in hell and starts designing and building improvements. After a while, they’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and the engineer is a pretty popular guy.
One day God calls Satan up on the telephone and says with a sneer, ‘So, how’s it going down there in hell?’ Satan replies, ‘Hey, things are going great. We’ve got air conditioning and flush toilets and escalators, and there’s no telling what this engineer is going to come up with next.’ God replies, ‘What??? You’ve got an engineer? That’s a mistake – he should never have gone down there. Send him up here.’ Satan says, ‘No way. I like having an engineer on the staff, and I’m keeping him.’ God says, ‘Send him back up here or I’ll sue.’ Satan laughs uproariously and answers, ‘Yeah, right. And just where are YOU going to get a lawyer?'”
Go Duke (Coach K, West Point Class of ’69)!! Go Nova (Philly)!!
Have a great weekend!
BJ Kraemer, President