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The young clerk's responsibilities included bringing the
judge a hot cup of coffee at the start of every day.
Each morning the judge was enraged that the coffee cup ar-
rived two-thirds full. The clerk explained that he had to
rush to get the coffee delivered while it was still hot,
which caused him to spill much of it along the way.
None of the judge's yelling and insults produced a full cup
of coffee, until he finally threatened to cut the clerk's
pay by one-third if he continued to produce one-third less
than the judge wanted.
The next morning he was greeted with a cup of coffee that
was full to the brim, and the next morning and the morning
after that.
The judge couldn't resist gloating over his success and
smugly complimented the clerk on his new technique.
"Oh, there's not much to it," admitted the clerk happily,
"I just sip some coffee right outside the coffee room, and
spit it back in when I get outside your office."
The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.
~Stanley J. Randall
Hot Cup of Coffee
According to the National Safety Council, coffee is not successful at sobering up a drunk person, and in many cases it may actually increase the adverse effects of alcohol.
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