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.
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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.
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You have used coat hangers and duct tape for something other than
hanging coats and taping ducts.
- You window shop at Radio Shack.
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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.
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When the microphone or visual aids at a meeting don't work, you rush up
to the front to fix it.
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You think that when people around you yawn, it's because they didn't get
enough sleep.
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You are convinced you can build a phaser out of your garage door opener
and your camera's flash attachment.
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You have a functioning home copier machine, but every toaster you own
turns bread into charcoal.
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Your three year old son asks why the sky is blue and you try to explain
atmospheric absorption theory.
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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.
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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.
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You have a neatly sorted collection of old bolts and nuts in your
garage.