i must be an engineer after all
Might have been posted before but someone showed me this at work today
Knack
Me, I'm afraid.
Worse than that I really admire people who have more 'knack' than myself.
I will never be cured!
Brilliant
My Grandad (from whome I, it could be argued by some, inherited 'the Knack'!) once told me "Don't tell anyone you have spanners.
They'll think your a mechanic. Never let on you have a blowlamp, they'll think you're a plumber. Never let folks see your terminal
'driver, they'll think you're an electrician. Never let folks see your trowells, they'll want you to build something." He
also taught me how to react when folks ask you leading questions such as "How much would that cost to fix?" and "You know a bit about
cars/wires/walls/pipes? (delete as appropriate). Or the most frequently used "I bet it wouldn't take you long to just......"
All questions that SHOULD lead to you volenteering to do work need the same response............................................"I can't
afford me so I doubt you can!"
He also said "If I'd known they wern't goin to pay, I'd have charged them twice as much."
[Edited on 23/2/07 by owelly]
The producers of the long standing radio programme were considering having an engineer as the subject, but realised in time that they would have to
change the question: 'what book would you take with you apart from the Bible and the complete works of Shakespeare' to.
'What book would you take with you apart from a complete set of Haynes manuals'
C'mon how many others took their mega drive apart when they were 9 and got it back together and it still worked!!
i must be an engineer after all
I've just had a waking revalation after watching that...
I now know what's wrong with me
Yippee... I'm cured of not knowing!.
It's amazing how fast you learn to fix cars when you live in the middle of knowhere and the school train is three miles away and the thought of
trudging through snow deep enough to fill your wellies!
Can anyone else claim to be able to start a series 1 Landy with the starting handle at the age of 11?? It only tried to break my thumb once!
Spot on!
all my life i have been an inginhear
now i can even spell it
A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts:
"Excuse me, can you help me? I promised my friend I would meet him half an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man below says: "Yes. You are in a hot air balloon, hovering approximately 30 feet above this field. You are between 40 and 42 degrees N.
latitude, and between 58 and 60 degrees W. longitude."
"You must be an engineer," says the balloonist.
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know."
"Well," says the balloonist, "everything you have told me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to make of your information,
and the fact is I am still lost."
The man below says "You must be a manager."
"I am," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you are going. You have made a promise which you have no idea how to
keep, and you expect me to solve your problem. The fact is you are in the exact same position you were in before we met, but now it is somehow my
fault."
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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
C'mon how many others took their mega drive apart when they were 9 and got it back together and it still worked!!
I'm not an engineer but I am an I.T. techy bod whcih means I can relate to this...
Jebs Jobs - Technical Support
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Originally posted by gazza285
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Originally posted by liam.mccaffrey
C'mon how many others took their mega drive apart when they were 9 and got it back together and it still worked!!
Is that the modern equivalent of a Sturmey Archer?