a constant

Yesterday was the annual summer picnic hosted by the company that Father Bird works for.  It was held at a local water park, and as we shuffled through the gates in our bathing suits I wondered how we'd even recognize anybody he works with.  Since he doesn't actually go to work, he hardly knows anyone there.  I looked at the faces of the swimsuited, sunscreened people passing, and gave it up as useless.

But then a wet man passed me, and I heard him say, "Well, see, force equals mass times acceleration.  And if the mass is constant..."  I looked around to see who he was talking to, and saw a little girl in a ruffled bathing suit, probably no more than about five years old, trotting at his heels. 

I don't, in general, like to make generalizations.  But in this instance I had to shake my head and chuckle.  Engineers.  They may look like other people, but they sure don't talk like them.

Comments

[Wendy Artman]

LOL---so true!! The same things happen at Shane's company functions---only with telephone system design.