Two gas company employees, a senior training instructor and a young trainee examined the meters in the cottage village.
They parked their truck at the end of the street and went on foot, entering every house to check the meters.
After checking the counter in the last house, they went out.
The owner of the house, a woman of fifty years of age, accompanied them by the gaze from the window of her kitchen.
The senior instructor offered his junior employee to run back to the truck to prove that the forty-year-old man could outrun the young man.
When they had run almost halfway, they realized that the woman from the last house was running right behind them.
They immediately stopped and asked her what had happened.
“When I saw two gas drivers rushing away from my house,” the woman replied, “I decided it was better for me to run away too!”