Male/Female Fittings

Matt

Yesterday's deli story jogged a memory that I always find amusing.

A couple of years ago, I was working in the facilities group at a manufacturing plant. A person in the safety department announced one day that he no longer wanted to be a man, and that he would start coming to work as a woman (which he had been doing in private for several years). I'll call this safety person "Nadia".

At the time, I was doing a project to install a new manufacturing line. The line was made up of movable modules, with various connecting hoses for water and chemicals. We wanted to make the system fool proof, so that nobody could accidentally connect a flammable chemical hose up to a water connection.

The solution we came up with, was to make both ends of the flammable chemical hoses male, and both ends of the water hoses female, so that they could never be cross-connected.

At the next safety review, the process scientist I was working with was so excited about this idea, that he couldn't wait to tell the safety person. He knew that as a SAFETY PERSON, they would really think it was a good idea.

So the scientist says to Nadia, "We figured out a way to keep the flammable chemicals separate from the water - You're gonna love this one - we switched the genders of the hose connections!"

He didn't even realize until after the meeting what he had said.