Engineer Husband

Dave R

A wife says to her engineer husband, "Could you please go to the store for me and buy a carton of milk. And if they have eggs, get a dozen."
A short time later the husband comes back with twelve cartons of milk. The wife asks, "Why the heck did you buy so much milk?"
"They had eggs."

tfdesign

My dad was once asked to post a letter, and was given 2p for a stamp (yes 2p was a lot of money in those days).

My dad promptly posted the letter, then purchased the stamp from the post office and returned it to my grandmother!

Shit happens!!

watkins

Asperger's syndrome, the engineer's disease

http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/story/15-the+engineer%27s+disease.html

Taking what they hear literally, is often a good sign. One of my students had asperger's and I had to be careful how I phrased requests.

Regards,
Bob

tfdesign

That's a very interesting comment. Why did you say that?

fwiw, asperger's runs in my family.

TIG

If you ask an average five-year-old, what is 2+2 ?
he says, "It's 4."
If you ask [someone-you-are-prejudiced-against], what is 2+2 ?
he says, "What's 2 ?"
If you ask an engineer, what is 2+2 ?
he says, "I know it's 4, but let's call if 8 to be on the safe side."
If you ask an architect, what is 2+2 ?
he says, "I know it's 4, but let's call if 1.6180339887 so it'll look right."
If you ask a landscape architect, what is 2+2 ?
he says, "I know it's 4, but let's call if 3 or 5 or 7 as it'll look more pleasing."
If you ask an account/quantity-surveyor/lawyer/etc, what is 2+2 ?
he says, "What would you like it to be ?"

Box

............and if you ask an engineer if a glass is half full or half empty he will simply say the glass is the wrong size, while the real answer is, Waiter, bring another before I finish this.