and it was a brand new convertible car.

Those same two Agricultural Engineering students took a farm surveying course, and were tasked to measure a telephone pole using a protractor and measuring tape. While the two looked at the pole and scratched their heads and hind quarters trying to figure how to do it, one of them pushed against the pole and noticed it was loose, and suggested they could pull it out and lay it down to measure it. The other one said, "No, we need to measure how tall it is, not how long it is".

But you know I'm passing it along.