A zoo opens up a new kangaroo exhibit - a beautiful green, grassy field encircled by a handsome wooden fence. There is a big ribbon-cutting ceremony and half the city comes out to watch the kangaroos turned out into their new habitat.
The next morning, the kangaroo keeper comes in to find all of the kangaroos are out of the exhibit. After herding them back in to their enclosure, he calls for the zoo's carpenter.
"We must not have built that fence tall enough," he exclaims. "Those kangaroos can really jump. Put up a new fence, and make this one ten feet tall!" The carpenter obliges and has the new fence installed by the end of the day.
The next morning, the kangaroos are all out and about again. The keeper calls the carpenter back.
"That wasn't high enough either! We need an even taller fence, make this one fifteen feet tall!"
The carpenter complies, but it does no good - the next morning the kangaroos are out again.
Over the next week, the scenario played itself out, again and again. The kangaroos would get out every night. The keeper would have the carpenter build a taller fence, but the kangaroos would still be loose in the morning. Finally, the carpenter was summoned back to the exhibit, this time asked to make the fence sixty feet tall. Fed up, he threw his hammer down in frustration.
"I was hoping you would figure this out on your own," he shouted at the zookeeper, "but it would probably help more if you would CLOSE THE DAMN GATE behind you when you leave the kangaroo exhibit!"
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