Do you know the new skyscraper they just completed? I actually had a hand – a mental hand that is – in its construction. I didn’t build anything for it, of course, didn’t do a stitch of manual labor in fact. What I did do was stop a crime in progress.
I was contracted by the foreman of the building site when they had just started. It seems that one of the workers there was engaged in some peculiar behavior and naturally they needed an expert in peculiarity, so they got me. I only had to be down there once to see what was going on and to instantly solve the problem.
Each day at quitting time, the fellow in question would load up a wheelbarrow of discarded material from the site – pieces of wood, lengths of tubing, broken chips of concrete, scraps of paper, and so on – and carry it out past the man guarding the site. He had been doing this for an entire week. It was unusual behavior but since the material was nothing but useless junk with no value at all, the guard let him pass. Still, the foreman felt that something was wrong. Why would anyone do such a thing?
He hadn’t a clue, needless to say, so I had to clue him in.
What did I tell the foreman?
Nano Solution_____________________________________________
“That the man was using the discards to build a clever but illegal copy of the building where he would...” but your voice trails off as even your own warped imagination begins to peter out.
“But it’s so simple,” Nano says. “The man was stealing wheelbarrows and selling them to other construction sites!”
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