Eddie is applying for a job

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Eddie is applying for a job as a signalman for the local railroad and is told to meet the inspector at the signal box. The inspector decides to give Eddie a pop quiz, asking: `What would you do if you realized that two trains were heading towards each other on the same track?`

Eddie says: `I would switch one train to another track.`

`What if the lever broke?` asks the inspector. `Then I`d run down to the tracks and use the manual lever down there`, answers Eddie.

`What if that had been struck by lightning?` challenges the inspector.

`Then,` Eddie continued, `I`d run back up here and use the phone to call the next signal box.`

`What if the phone was busy?`

What happened next changed everything…
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