Labor Day celebrates the contribution of workers to our economy. We celebrate it by not working.

In the week before Labor Day, Eli, a dirt-poor country farmer won the lottery – half a million dollars.

To celebrate, he treated his wife and their 4 kids to a trip to see the Labor Day parade in New York.

He booked them rooms in the Sheraton International.

Eli and his son Clem were particularly mesmerized by a shiny box with silver walls in the hotel lobby. They’d never before come across doors that could move apart, and then automatically close again, as neither had seen an elevator before. So they were totally amazed when a little old lady entered the shiny box and the doors closed on her.

The lights on the wall by the doors flashed for a minute or so, then the doors opened and out stepped a beautiful young woman.

Eli turned to Clem and said, “Son, please go get your mother.”