Was up till midnight last night trying to finish a complicated survey plat. Spent nearly all morning on it as well. Client is desperate. Good fellow, repeat client, gonna try to do everything I can.
Got it wrapped up and had the little Mrs. deliver it to him. My request to her was along the lines of the offer of an all expense paid, exotic trip full of fun and adventure. What I didn't know would fill a barrell.
Issue #1: The backway to get to where she needed to go was closed down a couple of weeks ago for replacement of a large box culvert and significant road improvements. Must go through the middle of town.
Issue #2: As she is approaching the stop light a half mile from where she needed to go she sees all sorts of flashing lights and barricades being set up quickly to block her path.
Issue #3: She took the longer alternate path than what I would have used, as I am more familiar with the back streets.
Issue #4: Gets held up by a freight train crawling through the crossing.
Issue #5: As she nears the delivrey point she sees that intersection has a ton of lights flashing and barricades in place. Fortunately, she was able to go in the backway to get to the delivery point for the plat, etc.
Issue #6: Learns what the fuss was all about. Some loon, supposedly with a bomb, has occupied Pizza Hut located about one-quarter mile away. The bomb squad from 110 miles away is headed to Pizza Hut. All businesses along that half mile are to evacuate immediately.
Issue #7: She quickly takes a route that guarantees she will be getting further from Pizza Hut. Stops at Subway to grab some lunch to bring home. Today was the day every employee in the building was trying to be even more incompetent than any other employee on duty.
Issue #8: I was not as sincerely supportive of her list of issues as I should have been. Or, so I have been told.
Now I remember WHY I miss the Midwest
Sign digitally, deliver virtually. Was a paper copy really needed?
I was not as sincerely supportive of her list of issues as I should have been.
Why is there no like button? LOL
Update. It was a crank phone call. They were told there was a bomb in the building and they had 30 seconds to get out or die. This is lunch time at Pizza Hut. That had to be crazy to watch.
One worker recalled seeing a box somewhere with the Amazon logo on it and none of the employees knew anything about how it got there.
The standard accusation being made by jokers was that it was the newly-opened Domino's who called in the bomb threat.
Got this news straight from the director of the local ambulance service who was called to the scene. He and I were getting organized for participating in the Christmas Parade this evening, so had some time to chat. He was my survey helper during his community college days many years ago.
About the time the so-called bomb was announced, there was an escaped felon on foot in another town about eight miles to the north. Their schools went into soft lockdown mode. Somehow that story got blended into some connection to the bomber story. They caught the guy trying to imitate a surveyor (joke, joke) by wandering through the woods along the river. If he would have simply strolled slowly along a city street he would have never been found.
