Humour and the Engineer

Stop doing that! You can't pick your nose here
Why?
Because "When in Rome....."
Really? When did you go to Rome?
No, I mean, when in Rome, you just do as the Romans do.
I didn't know Romans don't pick their noses here
Will you please stop doing it.
But we're not in Rome, OK?
Sigh. I was using an idiom, OK?
Why?
Sigh.

Its hard to explain this but when I was an Engineer, a lot of people found it hard to talk to Engineers like us. We were so into the "Black & White" of things that anything outside the Rules was scary and mysterious.

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