Two Minnesota mechanical engineers were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.
A woman walks by and asks what they were doing.

'We're supposed to find the height of the flagpole,' said Sven, 'but we don't have a ladder.

The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a few bolts, and laid the pole down.
Then she took a tape measure from her pocketbook,
took a measurement, announced, 'Eighteen feet, six inches, and walked away.

Ole shook his head and laughed. 'Ain't that just like a woman!
We ask for the height and she gives us the length!'



Sven and Ole are currently working for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation designing "round-a-bouts".