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.