Not Even Technically Correct

(My best friend and I are arranging things for a short drama play she’s putting on. She needs a projector to play videos in it, so we have to go along to the school technicians to arrange to have one set up. We knock on the door to the technician’s office and wait. The new technician, a fairly young and pretty woman, answers the door.)

Technician: “Hi, girls, what can I do for you?”

Friend: “Um… er… Is there a technician there I can talk to?”

Me: *cringes*

Technician: *blinks* “I am a technician!”

(My friend eventually talks to one of the other technicians and asks about the projector and we sort something out. As we’re walking a back to class I turn to her.)

Me: “Seriously, [Friend]? Women are just as capable to be technicians, you know!”

Friend: “It’s not my fault; I thought only old men were technicians!”