Two engineers were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.

A woman walks by asks what they were doing.

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

The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a couple bolts, and laid the pole down on the ground.

Then she took a tape measure from her pocketbook, took a measurement, announced,

"Twenty one feet, six inches," and walked away.

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