Stereotypes

Do you ever eat at Qdoba?  If you do, what do you usually order?  I'm pretty traditional - I usually do some kind of traditional burrito.  You know: meat, rice, beans, salsa, sauce, cheese, and sour cream inside a tortilla.  I go to the one in town here often enough that several of the people who work there know me and can almost remember what I usually order.  Except for one thing.....they always seem to think I order a naked burrito instead of the usual burrito with a tortilla.  Why?  I have no idea.  I guess something about me screams "naked!"  And it's not just the guy who works there - last week one of the ladies who works there guessed naked burrito too.

Last weekend I was telling a new acquaintance that I'm an engineer and what I do in the evenings or for a hobby.  I said something like, "by the time I go to work, do some kind of exercise, and then make supper, it's pretty much time to go to bed."  I was told that sounded like your typical engineer, but I probably know how that us.  Ummmmm......no...I don't.  Please enlighten me because I thought that sounded kind of normal.  He didn't give me any better explanation though.  Can someone enlighten me?

He wasn't the only one being all stereotypical about engineers.  Yesterday at my annual physical my doctor made some crack about engineers and how they are.  He said engineers don't answer a question directly.  Hmmm.......interesting that he would say that because in some ways engineers tend to be fairly blunt.  But, I think he was probably referring to the way that engineers like to give a precise answer, so they may need to ask some clarifying questions before they can give that precise answer.

Later ladies and gents.....