Before computers

Someone wrote that today’s youngsters sat so much at computers they didn’t learn street sense. Well, in the days of the National Coal Board three young surveyors went to a small mine beside a river to measure up and update the plans. They finished and as they waited for the van to come for them, they took a walk beside the river. One challenged the other to jump in for five bob. ‘I’d do it for ten bob from each of you,’ the second one said. ‘Done!’
The volunteer started to take off his clothes when the others told him he had to go in fully clothed. ‘Only for a pound each,’ they were told.
‘Agreed.’ At that the chap jumped into the river with water up to his chest but two pound richer. One of the others reasoned that if he jumped in, he’d lose a pound to his pal but get one from the other and be all square and jumped in too. The third one reasoned he’d be two pound out of pocked if he didn’t join them and jumped in as well.
When the van came they were soaked and shivering and no better off.
Which goes to show we were just as stupid then!!