January 10, 2007 - To celebrate the world of engineering, we asked Rexroth associates to send us humorous endings to the sentence, “You know you’re an engineer if…." Some of the responses were completely original and some came from other websites. Overall, we received many responses. From those, we collected the top 10.
You know you’re an engineer if... 10. In college you thought Spring Break was a type of metal fatigue9.
At home, you rearrange the dishwasher to maximize dirty dish density8. You stare at an orange juice container because it says 'concentrate'7. You know the direction the water swirls when you flush and have used this information to extrapolate your GPS coordinates6. You own a software program to design the furniture layout in your house5. You've tried to repair a $5 radio, and used $20 worth of solder to do it4.
You have no life and can prove it mathematically3. During Thanksgiving Dinner you find yourself calculating the load-bearing capacity of Aunt Martha’s chair2. You spent more on your calculator than you did on your wedding ring1. You've already calculated how much money you make per secondView the Top 10 humorous answers from engineers in the new Creative Diversions section of Bosch Rexroth's website. View all entries, or submit your own for consideration.
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