You Know You're an Engineer if...

  • You stare at an orange juice container because it says CONCENTRATE.
  • Your wrist watch has more computing power than a 486DX-50.
  • Your spouse sends you an e-mail instead of calling you to dinner.
  • Your idea of good interpersonal communication means getting the decimal point in the right place.
  • You look forward to the holidays only to put together the kids' toys.
  • You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than hanging coats and taping ducts.
  • You window shop at Radio Shack.
  • Your ideal evening consists of fast-forwarding through the latest sci-fi movie looking for technical inaccuracies.
  • You don't even know where the cover to your personal computer is.
  • When the microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work, you rush up to the front to fix it.
  • You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get enough sleep.
  • You are convinced you can build a phaser out of your garage door opener and your camera's flash attachment.
  • You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own turns bread into charcoal.
  • Your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain atmospheric absorption theory.
  • You thought the real heroes of "Apollo 13" were the mission controllers.
  • You did the sound system for your senior prom.
  • You still own a slide rule and you know how to work it.
  • You know the direction the water swirls when you flush.
  • You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
  • You have more toys than your kids.
  • You have introduced your kids by the wrong name.
  • You have a habit of destroying things in order to see how they work.
  • You can remember 7 computer passwords, but not your anniversary.
  • You can type 70 words a minute, but can't read your own handwriting.
  • Your checkbook always balances.
  • Your IQ. number is bigger than your weight.
  • You have more friends on the Internet than in real life.
  • You burned down the gymnasium with your Science Fair project.
  • You spend more on your home computer than your car.
  • You've ever tried to repair a $5.00 radio.
  • You own one or more white short-sleeve dress shirts.
  • You have saved the power cord from a broken appliance.
  • You have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your garage.