On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:47:26 GMT, "Brian Sharrock"
wrote:

Imagine having studied for years and years to achieve some
qualification in Electronic Engineering (employed in
Radar displays et. al ) and visiting home to hear your
mother telling her next door neighbour;- "Oh, Brian will
put in a plug(sic) in your washhouse for your new
washing machine- he's an electrician!"

My brother had a somewhat more annoying experience - at the time was
a senior A&E Registrar in Edinburgh Royal. One weekend while
visiting our parents a neighbours child was in the garden and fell
quite badly. He picked her up and prodded, pulled, poked and
listened before saying she was fine (and curing her by handing her an
ice cream) . At this point Mother said to neighbour "Don't you think
you had better pop her down to the cottage hospital and let a proper
doctor take a look at her".

--
Peter Parry.
http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/