The "are you a surveyor?" Is usually followed by "what are you surveying?, which, depending on the person asking the question, is sometimes answered with "A tract of land for the Army Corps of Engineers for a nuclear waste disposal containment area".
Fellow stopped in his car yesterday on a city side street and asked how much he would need to pay me to widen his street. I told him we weren't concerned with the street because we were going to install overhead glass sewer lines so everyone could see where all the crap was coming from and where it was going. He loved it. Said that way we could know for sure who all the s#itheads were.
The sarcasm is strong in surveyors ...
When I'm working along the road and someone stops to ask what I'm doing, since my actions usually involve my digging in said road for a monument, my standard answer has become "I'm installing potholes!"
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few years back i did a topo of a section of local... creek. storm/sanitary/garbage outfall would be a better qualifier. a number of our local roof-averse residents had staked their claim on a portion of shaded, shallow bank, and had clearly put some effort into nicing up the place. i come through with the antenna to shoot what i can and set control for what i can't. one of the more affable raconteurs knew exactly what i was up to, and got all kinds of chatty about it. wasn't up to speed on GPS, though, and had tons of questions about what satellites, how many satellites, whose satellites. nice enough diversion for 10 or 15 minutes, told him i needed to get work done but i'd be back in the morning if he wanted to chat again.
come back the next day and, no kidding, he had apparently talked himself and about 4 of his buddies into fashioning aluminum foil hats in the fashion a line cook might wear. they were actually very well crafted, there was no mistaking that some time and effort had gone into it. he walks right up and says "ain't got nothing against you buddy, but we don't trust no satellites."
never occurred to me to ask him how he got hold of enough aluminum foil for that endeavor.
flyin solo, post: 381590, member: 8089 wrote: ...and, no kidding, he had apparently talked himself and about 4 of his buddies into fashioning aluminum foil hats in the fashion a line cook might wear..
Back in the day when EDMs were just getting common we had a running joke with 'green help' rodman about the "radiation" emitted from the instruments. Story goes it could make you sterile...
We always told the new guy to stand sideways and hold the reflector pole at arm's length. One enterprising young rodman dug a small metal clipboard out of the back of the truck and worked a whole day with it stuffed down the front of his britches...
Lee D, post: 380298, member: 7971 wrote: You just never know... I was wearing my Certified Survey Trainer shirt one day and a woman working the plate lunch counter at the local megamart asked me "oh, are you a surveyor? I need my house surveyed". I politely referred her to a local guy whose bread and butter is residential work.
In my best Arnold Schwarzenegger;
"I don't du dat kind of verk"
Which is probably why I'm so POOR!
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