Tonight we hosted the team of engineers and their families from Precision Planting for a wiener roast. We had a great turnout and the entire evening went well. We were a little concerned because of the scattered showers throughout the day, but the sun came out and we had a beautiful evening.
We played a game, went on a hay ride, then we had a Skype video chat with Ben, an engineer who is currently in New Zealand; he showed us some pictures and told us a little of what is going on there.
The highlight of the night for me was in realizing that an engineer is actually a term for a breed of people! Actually we know they are just gifted with a similar personality but after last night I could about believe that they all came from the same genetic pool! Chad had all the wives write down sentences to finish the statement “You know you’re married to an engineer…” It was amazing that I could have written nearly everyone of them to some degree (maybe not exactly as written but very similar occurrences). My children were trying to guess the ones I wrote and they were wrong! 
Here are some of the statements contributed…
You know you’re married to an engineer…
- if he gets out the white board and makes a math equation about your emotions
- if the only place your husband doesn’t wear his Leatherman and flashlight is to church
- if your husband is quick to offer to make a spread sheet to help organize your life
- when you have to give a technical answer as to why his outfit doesn’t match
- when he writes you a list of 100 questions to ask the doctor at your baby’s get well visit
- when you have to go to 20 different stores to buy a microwave
- when he hooks up your child’s bouncy seat to a fan to keep the child bouncing
- if your husband has calculated how much energy you use when you put warm leftovers in the fridge
- when learning about chords in music, instead of learning C, D, E, etc. he looks up their frequency values in hertz
- when he makes a spreadsheet while timing your contractions
- if he analyzes the height / intensity of the contractions on the monitor while you’re in labor
- if he can fix just about anything with a Leatherman
I am still laughing as I go through this list again! I should try laughing more when these things happen at home and I wonder where that idea came from!
One of the husbands said we could form a support group and call it WOE!
Wives Of Engineers!
I love my engineer and now I think I understand him a little better!
1 comment:
My engineer husband has a Leatherman as part of the tattoo on his right calf. It's a lower leg artwork showing all the tools of his trade/life--a motorcycle, a computer, a reflex klystron, and much more. The Leatherman occupies the central place on the back of his leg.
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