- You would rather be ridiculed for using a pocket protector than wrecking your shirt.
- You see a good design and still have to change it.
- You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.
- You use Microsoft products but they can't make you like them.
- When the power goes out, everyone assumes you know how to fix it.
- If you are over 50, you still own a slide rule and you know how to work it.
- You're in the back seat of your car, she's looking wistfully at the
moon, and you're trying to locate a geosynchronous satellite.
- You know what the geosynchronous satellite's function is.
- You've already calculated how much you make per second.
- You've ever tried to repair a $5 radio, or an old Ford truck, rather than watching Hockey Night in Canada.
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You could be an Engineer if...
- At Christmas, you are always delegated to find the burnt-out bulb in the string.
- In college you thought Spring Break was a metal fatigue failure.
- The salespeople at Future Shop can't answer any of your questions.
- You bought your wife a new CD ROM for her birthday (what's wrong with that anyway?).
- You have difficulty writing unless the paper has both horizontal and vertical lines.
- You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
- You have Dilbert comics displayed anywhere in your work area (or a link on your website!).
- You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance or your old computer.
- You use the internet to tell you how to get there, and GPS just to make sure it was correct.
- You have more friends your work group than in your own time.
- You wait 6 months between haircuts, you forgot for 3 months - the 3 months before that were just the usual growing time.
- You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.
- You have actually used duct tape for taping ducts.
- You know what "http://" actually stands for.
- You have given up trying to understand women, in favour of nuclear physics.
- You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
- Your laptop computer costs more than your car, and runs 'way faster, AND your laptop computer doesn't have coat hangers and duct tape holding it together.
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