There are a few pretty good-paying blue-collar jobs out there that can get pretty boring at times.

Working for a gas company is one of them. Sure, there’s always the risk of being in an explosion or something like that, but for the most part, it’s not too dangerous, unlike working for the power company.

One of the jobs gas company workers have waking around checking meters, not much excitement there unless you count mean dogs.

To cure their boredom, the two gas company employees in this joke decided to have a little contest, only their fun and games nearly gave one of their customers a freaking heart attack!

Two gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor, and a young trainee were out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood.

They parked their truck at the end of the alley and worked their way around to the other end.

At the last house, a woman looking out of her kitchen window watched as the two men checked her gas meter.

Finishing their meter check, the senior supervisor challenged his younger colleague to a foot race down the alley back the truck to prove that he as an older guy can still outrun the younger man.

As they came running up to the truck, the two men realized the lady from the last house was huffing and puffing right behind them.

They stopped and asked the lady what was wrong, tow which she replied gasping for breath:

“When I see two gas men running as hard as you two were, I figured I’d better run too!”

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