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What are Your Funny Experiences that Only Happen to an Engineer (or An Engineer would find amusing)

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Every profession has experiences that are hazards of the trade, so to speak. What about engineering? What funny or amusing things have happened to you that only an engineer could relate to or would find funny. Here's an example of what an engineer shared with me: flick solder and it lands on your hand and burns you. Can your relate....or, not funny enough? Share your experiences in this discussion. Thanks.

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  • When I started out we still wore dress shirts and ties at work - even while working in the lab (we did wear lab coats).  I remember working with another engineer on a prototype avionics box when his tie became unclipped and the tie clip shorted out the NiCad battery and it became fused to the terminals and the hot metal cut his tie into two pieces.  It was both funny and frightening.....  I never wore jewelry or any other metal after that.  I could imagine what that hot metal would have done to my skin.  To this day I still don't wear my wedding band or any other jewelry and I only wear plastic watches.

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  • When I started out we still wore dress shirts and ties at work - even while working in the lab (we did wear lab coats).  I remember working with another engineer on a prototype avionics box when his tie became unclipped and the tie clip shorted out the NiCad battery and it became fused to the terminals and the hot metal cut his tie into two pieces.  It was both funny and frightening.....  I never wore jewelry or any other metal after that.  I could imagine what that hot metal would have done to my skin.  To this day I still don't wear my wedding band or any other jewelry and I only wear plastic watches.

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