12/14/2025 from Daily Jokes
#21558
After two decades in practice, a successful gynecologist had grown tired of malpractice insurance and endless HMO paperwork. Feeling burned out, he decided it was time for a complete career change—even though medicine was all he had ever known.
Thinking his steady hands might serve him well elsewhere, he chose to retrain as a mechanic, a job he’d always believed he’d be good at. He enrolled in evening classes at a local technical college, attended faithfully, and soaked up everything he could learn.
When the practical exam arrived, he prepared for weeks and completed it with impressive skill. When the results were posted, he was stunned to see he’d scored 150%. Certain there had been a mistake, he called his instructor.
“I’m grateful,” he said, “but I think there must be an error in my grade.”
The instructor replied, “You earned 50% for taking the engine apart perfectly, and another 50% for putting it back together perfectly.”
Then, after a brief pause, he added, “I gave you the extra 50% because you did the entire job through the muffler—which I’ve never seen anyone do in my whole career.”
