I had a guy call me up in the middle of the week and try to ream me out about setting a pin over on his property "by a foot". He was, to say the least, condescending, uninformed and rude. I stayed on the phone long enough to realize I had not done the survey for his neighbor. When I asked him why he thought it was me, he told me the kid who "helped" him showed him the numbers on top of the pin.
Well, he wrote down the numbers wrong...but that's the second part of the story: He actually had a distant neighbor's in-law's nephew (or whatever) that works for a surveyor bring his instrument over and measure his frontage...and it wasn't what he expected. The kid who works for a surveyor showed him the numbers and told him how to look up the surveyor who set the "erroneous" pin.
When this yahoo read me the number he had written down off of the pin, he apparently transposed something. I convinced him it wasn't me and he hung up.
Fast forward to today. He called back. He was apologetic for being so rude. But he apparently got some of his own medicine when he called the surveyor that had actually done the survey next door. They apparently had words (imagine that).
This guy actually had the juevos to ask me how much I would charge to survey his lot...to prove the pin was in the wrong place.
I told him people with phone manners like his don't have enough money to hire me..He was starting to say something else when I hung up.
I'm going to start recording my phone calls to post on the internet. Where do these folks come from?
"Where do these folks come from?"
In this case....................Oklahoma.
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Next week it'll be some guy in Kansas calling me.
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My call of the week came from a fellow whose mother had me survey her lot a year or so ago. It was a simple lot and block job with plenty of existing monuments to lock in her boundaries. At the time the neighbor to the south followed us around the whole time and didn't like where the line came out but we showed him why it fell where it fell. Fast forward to today. The guy who called and the neighbor hate each other. Partly because the guy who called was bitten by the neighbor's dog. Time to build a very secure fence. Preferably as close to the boundary line as possible. His reason for calling was that there is a tree (24-30 inch diameter I think) directly on line so he can't pull a string line directly from one monument to the other. I explained how to do a two-foot offset, pull a string line, then measure back the two feet on each side of the tree. That simple, free, solution made him so happy I thought he might pee himself. Turns out the guy is a carpenter. He was ashamed of himself for not thinking of such a simple solution.
I had to google that one.
juevos
Spanish for eggs.
Commonly used as slang for balls.
Larnt sompin today.
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paden cash, post: 373235, member: 20 wrote: condescending, uninformed and rude
paden cash, post: 373235, member: 20 wrote: people with phone manners like his
paden cash, post: 373235, member: 20 wrote: Where do these folks come from?
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Nate, Nate, Nate. You need to get out more. I suppose you reroof your own house when it needs done.
Yeah, come to think of it, I gotta get up there....
