You Might be an Engineer If...

• Buying flowers for your girlfriend or spending the money to upgrade your RAM is a moral dilemma.
• The salespeople at Radio Shack can't answer any of your questions. [You ask them questions?!?]
• You are at an air show and know how fast the skydivers are falling.
• You comment to your wife that her straight hair is nice and parallel.
• You have ever saved the power cord from a broken appliance. [What about a whole box full?]
• You know what http:// stands for.
• You see a good design and still have to change it. [This is called "tweaking" or "creeping featurism".]
• You spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring. [Not true Honey!]
• You still own a slide rule and you know how to use it. [Nope. I haven't used one in years. My first year of the class of 7T7 at UofT was the last year calculators weren't allowed!]
• You think a pocket protector is a fashion accessory. [Never liked pocket protectors — that was the generation before mine: back when white shirts and ties were the norm.]
• Your laptop computer costs more than your car.
• Your wife hasn't the foggiest idea of what you do at work. [And her eyes glaze over when you try and explain.]
• You've ever tried to repair a $5 radio. [It's called the I-can-fix-this-syndrome. And what about that overflowing box full of stuff you're going to fix sometime? Instead of buying a new printer, I fixed my (10 year old?) LaserJet IIIP by going on-line and buying the part and video on CD repair instructions.]
• You've already calculated how much you make per second. [That sounds more like a physicist or mathematician to me.]

Source: The Mouth Piece. [Comments are mine, of course.]