You know you are an engineer when...

your slide rules have accessories

You dream in metric and imperial units

T

A friend loses a widget such as a window lock key, and you find the easiest way to help is to nip into the workshop and make another one.

David

neighbours constantly asking can you fix the impossible

When the simple jobs do not work, but the complicated ones do!

Edited By V8Eng on 09/07/2012 18:03:53

you wake up next to a beautiful woman thinking... I know how to fix that widget!!!!!

You check the finsh of every metal object you pick up

Henry Ford said 'An engineer is one who can do for $1 what any fool can do for $2'.

Always make two of everything, they will always want another one!

Clive

... when everybody in the street knows where to get stuff fixed. Generally we should charge more for doing this - after all, most of the seemingly never-ending queue of customers got or get paid more than we did, or do...

You wash your hands before going to the toilet.

Frank

Ah well, that rules me out then..........

Andrew

PS: I think that the quote ascribed to Henry Ford actually comes from 'Slide Rule', Neville Shute Norway's autobiography.

And IIRC it's a pound and five bob.

Neil

Or when you have to figure some mechanical problem out and you get told; "Well your the engineer!"

Regards Nick.

When you are stood in church looking up at the internal butresses and realise they they would make ace line shaft supports.

John S.

When you have made a major cock up and managed to cover it up

Best Wishes Martin

Sorry no, that's not being an engineer, thats just a normal day.

'Yea, Though I Fly Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death, I Shall Fear No
Evil.
For I am at 50,000 Feet and Climbing.'
- Sign over SR71 Wing Ops-

Two engineering students were biking across a university campus when one said, "Where did you get such a great bike?" The second engineer replied, "Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, "Take what you want." The first engineer nodded approvingly and said, "Good choice: The clothes probably wouldn't have fit you anyway."

To the optimist, the glass is half-full. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.