Soap boxes

These stories were going around the Internet. If anybody knows the source, please let me know so that I can give the proper credit:

A Japanese soap manufacturing company received a complaint that a consumer had bought a box of soap that was empty. Management tasked its engineers to solve the problem permanently to avoid any reoccurrence.

The engineers worked hard to devise an X-ray machine with high-resolution monitors. All the soapboxes that passed through the line were placed under constant scrutiny by two people to make sure they were not empty. No doubt, they worked hard and fast.

But a rank-and-file employee offered a different solution. He pointed a strong industrial electric fan at the assembly line. As each soapbox passed the fan, it blew the empty boxes out of the line.

Pens in space

The Americans spent a fortune developing a pen that would write upside-down in space.

The Russians gave their cosmonauts a pencil.

Bed

Bob went to a psychiatrist.

"Doc," he said, "I've got trouble. Every time I get into bed, I think there's somebody under it. I get under the bed, I think there's somebody on top of it. Top, under, top, under... you gotta help me, I'm going crazy!"

"Just put yourself in my hands for one year," said the shrink. "Come to me three times a week, and I'll cure your fears."

"How much do you charge?"

"A hundred dollars per visit."

"I'll sleep on it," said Bob.

Six months later the doctor met Bob on the street.

"Why didn't you ever come to see me again?" asked the psychiatrist.

"For a hundred bucks a visit? A bartender cured me for $10."

"Is that so? How?"

"He told me to cut the legs off the bed!"