A logger is driving down the highway and
sees two botanists
trying to measure the height of a small pine tree.
Their tape measure is
not long enough so one botanist stands on the
shoulders of the other
and attempts to extend the tape to the tree
top but it is not long
enough. While trying, he falls to the
ground. They attempt this about five
times and each time the top botanist
falls. The logger is laughing but
feels sorry for the pair, gets
out of his truck, takes out an electric
saw and cuts down the tree.
The botanists are looking at him like he is
crazy. He then takes a
tape measure and measures the tree. „OK guys,
the tree is 14′ 6.“
He then gets in his truck and drives away. The two
botanists are
stunned and speechless. Finally one says to the other
,“How do you
like that, we are trying to measure the height of the tree
and that
stupid jerk measures the width.“
