From Reader's Digest

Contributed by David S. Tascarella

 

   Three dozen employees from around the country were sent to California for a training seminar on some equipment we would be using. At dinner one evening, the participants were asked to tell where they were from and what they did.  A man seated in the middle of the table said that  he worked for a chemical plant in New Jersey. "New Jersey?" echoed the facilitator, who was a California lawyer. "How is it that California ended up with  all the lawyers and New Jersey has all the toxic-waste dumps?" he asked.

   The Garden Stater answered: "New Jersey had first pick."