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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bhp3rd, post: 758590, member: 16510&quot;]<b>No, thank God I am not - now before you&#039;all get your feathers</b></p><p><br /></p><p>No, thank God I am not - now before you&#039;all get your feathers in an uproar let me explain myself.</p><p>I have nothing against engineers, I mean somebodies got to do it, right?&nbsp; Plus like everything there are good ones, bad ones, and average ones.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I live a few minutes from Oak Ridge and myself worked at TVA for 28 years.&nbsp; I have many relatives, friends and coworkers that are and were engineers.&nbsp; Also I have noticed that many coin collectors and dealers that are also engineers, some of my dealers at the show are engineers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The thing that drives me nuts is some of them that compartmenteltlize (I know it&#039;s misspelled) every single responce, question or phrase.&nbsp; Now I admit I&#039;m very liberal and creative type person and not an absolute fact based thinker but engineers can drive me crazy.&nbsp; <b>It&#039;s as if they strive so hard to avoid an incorrect answer that they never actually get to the answer, or by the time they do no one cares any longer.</b></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I&#039;ll give you an example - I used to work with one guy, an engineer and I would report to him &quot;that I noticed a tree lodged next to the west spill gate on such and such dam yesterday&quot;.&nbsp; Then he would say this exact thing: &quot;&quot;you saw a tree, lodged, spill gate, dam, which side, when?&quot;&quot;&nbsp; It was if every single thing had to be placed or store in his engineer brain just so before he could even respond or comment.&nbsp; One of my coin dealers does the same thing, I&#039;ll say &quot;it&#039;s a nice day isn&#039;t it&quot;?&nbsp; Then he will say, &quot;well I don&#039;t know, maybe, they said something about it getting a little cooler later, at least I think that&#039;s what I heard I don&#039;t know&quot;.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I just don&#039;t think that a way and it kills me when they mull over self explantory comments or question at nauseum and go on and on and on.&nbsp; I want to say, hey dumn dumn, the correct answer to a common passing the time type question like &quot;it&#039;s a nice day isn&#039;t it is&quot;? is yes it is!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I guess that&#039;s why they make very good fact checkers and at other types of jobs but it still drives me crazy and that&#039;s my own pet peave but I thank God every day that I don&#039;t have to suffer like that because 99% of all things in life require that kind of scrutiny.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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