You know you’re a PMEL geek if...

[Hoopty]

This is making the e-mail rounds.  According to #48, everybody here fits the bill.


You know you're a PMEL geek if...

1.      You memorize ID label numbers.
2.      You take any T.O. home with you too look over.
3.      You're idea of a fun Friday night includes Magic Cards, Warcraft or Dungeons and Dragons.
4.      You have been calibrating over 40 years.
5.      Your name is Hercules.
6.      You're on vacation and you decide to "drop by the lab to check it out."
7.      Your computer costs more than your car.
8.      Your belt is fastened above your bellybutton.
9.      You make PMEL jokes around people who are not PMEL.
10.    You come in to the lab or call the lab on your day off.
11.    You have any part of the K100 or 00-20-14 memorized.
12.    You're a "sweet calibrator."
13.    Your license plate says PMEL
14.    You knew what PMEL was before you joined the Air Force
15.    Pushing around a 5700A on a cart is your only exercise
16.    You collect old cert labels
17.    Giggidy
18.    Your night life is watching cartoons
19.    You take leave to go to a computer convention.
20.    You bring your own tweeker to work
21.    You look for test instruments in movies, so you can tell people you work on them
22.    You carry the T.O. to the men's room w/ you.
23.    You retire from PMEL so you can do more PMEL
24.    You tell the girl in class that whines too much to adjust her wein bridge
25.    You own any personal test equipment and you bring it in to the lab to get calibrated.
26.    You work during lunch or breaks.
27.    You work in Hawaii and the only thing you can show your guest is the lab. (see #6)
28.    You crawl under a bench and cry during an AFMETCAL audit.
29.    Your idea of a cool party is a LAN party.
30.    Your spouse is also in PMEL.
31.    You are recognized as an expert on a test equipment...scope guy, spec an guy.
32.    You memorized the equipment part numbers in your section and also other sections.
33.    You talk about PMEL during lunch or breaks.
34.    You carry around a PMEL coin so you can coin check other PMEL geeks.
35.    You watch Tech T.V. on break instead of Sport Center
36.    You work in Hawaii, but you don't have a tan
37.    You are a civilian and work over your duty hours and not get paid overtime.
38.    You have an AFMETCAL sticker from the last audit on your car.
39.    You look up manufacturers websites just to see the latest test equipment.
40.    You get excited when a new standard comes in and you want to be the first one to    use it.
41.    You've looked up the definition of a metrologist and now you call yourself a scientist.
42.    You collect 350 tags from OWC's because they are "funny".
43.    You have a LAN party at the lab. See 10 and 29
44.    You get offended when non PMEL people call it a shop.
45.    You think it would be cool if PMEL wore lab coats.
46.    You have ever said that you are a combat calibrator.
47.    You get more action online then you do in real life.
48.    You have ever went to the PMEL Forum website.
49.    You get out of the military early and all you can do now is PMEL.
50.    You actually start working before anyone else is even at work.
51.    You have ever bought tickets in advance and had to see the first showing of any of these movies: Star Wars, Matrix, Lord of the Ring.
52.    The only time you go "camping" is when there is a new Star Wars movie.
53.    You know the difference between Star Trek Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager.
54.    You say one Star Trek series is better then the other (they all suck).
55.    You have your personal profile on the Battle Star Gallactica fan club web site.
56.    You have ever said you miss working on a certain piece of test equipment.
57.    You go to the gym and see someone weighing themselves on a scale that isn't calibrated and you feel the need to tell them that.
58.    Other PMEL geeks think you're a geek.
59.    A night of drinking involves Smirnoff ice and hard cider
60.    You want to become an instructor at school so you can mold future PMEL Geeks
61.    You have Fluke, Agilent, and PMEL.ORG in your favorites
62.    If you correct people when they call the company H-P instead of Agilent
63.    You have ever said this is going to be fun before the calibration
64.    You have children named after Herbie the avionics TI or any other TI
65.    You have ever slapped fives after completing a calibration.
66.    You have a caliper Tattoo
67.    You call yourself "Old School"  PMEL
64.    You ask the guy putting the tap on the keg if he has his T.O. out and if he is signed off in his training records.
65.    The only porn you own is anime
66     You learned how to play Pinochle, Euchre, Spades or Hearts just to be socially accepted at work.
67.    The only friends you have are either PMEL or Avionics.
68.    It drops 2 degrees and you think it got cold.
69.    You see 69 and you still laugh.
70.    You have never been embarrassed to admit you were PMEL.
71.    You still remember the first item you ever stamped.
72.    You almost or did cry when you got your first QR bust.
73.    Someone ask you what PMEL is and you actually try to explain it.
74.    You put items in work as soon as they come in the door so you can be the only one to work on that item.
75.    You're on a test equipment manufacturers mailing list.
76.    You got a free t-shirt from a manufacturer and you wear it.
77.    You flip out if someone touches your stamp.
78.    You like working Saturdays.
79.    You've asked "is that calibrated" about something that has nothing to do with test equipment.
80.    You cross train out of PMEL but you still go by the lab to see how things are going.
81.    Your greatest sex escapade involves your girlfriend or wife and the surface plate.

[docbyers]

I don't know about the surface plate, but there was that time in the K8 cage at Ramstein... 

[dallanta]

I got a speeding ticket in Kansas City Missouri years ago.  I asked the cop if it was certified and he showed me that it was,  with my name and stamp on the cal label.

[docbyers]

Oh man, that's gotta hurt...!

[coastiecappy]

Hoopty,
One more how about the lab calls to check on you or get questions answered when your out.

[cobychuck]

You know, it's pretty sad reading through this and realizing just how much of this I fit into.  Fortunately, I'm a dorm manager right now and could give a s*** about how the lab is doing.  Unless they have a hail and farewell.  Where there is free food, there I will be.

[PMEL_DEVIL-DOG]

You had a cart for your 5700A?

[PMEL_DEVIL-DOG]

82. You have your own personalized DMM leads with your name on it for your 'pimped-out' Fluke 77BN.
83. Your vision is 5 times worse than what it was before you used the autocollimator.
85. You question the accuracy uncertainties of gas pumps.

[docbyers]

You had a cart for your 5700A?

They're refering to Air Force PMEL...

[PMEL_DEVIL-DOG]

oh....

[Hoopty]

Hoopty,
One more how about the lab calls to check on you or get questions answered when your out.

Been there... done that.

[PMEL_DEVIL-DOG]

86. You had an orgasm the first time you saw the TDS620 o'scope! (which for the Corps was a couple years ago!)

[docbyers]

I had that experience when the 5700A came out (see # 67)...

[PMEL_DEVIL-DOG]

87. You thought that the hydraulic cal fluid you where using to calibrate a particle counter would make excellent lube....

[cobychuck]

88. Somehow you seem to be able to name all the cartoon shows from the era of Transformers and GI Joe.  (Snorks, Smurfs, etc)  You can also remember watching then when they weren't re-runs.