I was out staking some curb radii the other day for utility relocation. Very cold with a pretty good wind blowing. The contractor had people clearing along the road with flaggers etc. This suv pulls in to the side street and stops. Always an aggravation fixing to happen! So this lady gets out with a box. In the box were probably 12 or 15 cups of coffee! Steam still rising from the lids! She said we looked cold. Just when I feel comfortable hating everybody...... Wouldn't even take any money!!!!
Yay humans! Way to go. Thank you for sharing this.
surveyorjake, post: 408161, member: 8349 wrote: I was out staking some curb radii the other day for utility relocation. Very cold with a pretty good wind blowing. The contractor had people clearing along the road with flaggers etc. This suv pulls in to the side street and stops. Always an aggravation fixing to happen! So this lady gets out with a box. In the box were probably 12 or 15 cups of coffee! Steam still rising from the lids! She said we looked cold. Just when I feel comfortable hating everybody...... Wouldn't even take any money!!!!
I once had an elderly lady stop and ask what I was doing. I was working solo on the side of the road and it was cold. She was super sweet and was an adjoining landowner. About 15 minutes later she brought me coffee and doughnuts. I tried to pay her and she wouldn't hear of it. I sat down by my robot in the cold and ate the doughnuts and drank the coffee. She was very nice.
One time, in 1996, a guy saw me on the side of the road and it was a Friday at about 4 p.m. I knew the guy and I was waiting on the PC to set my hub so I could come ahead. He offered me a beer. I drank it on the side of the road and turned the hub down and we went home. 🙂
Just last week I was out working on a project, temps were in the single digits. I had to go so looked both ways, nobody coming, pulled off my gloves and took care of my business. As I'm shaking the blood back into my fingers before putting my gloves warming up in my jacket back on, I look up to see an old blue hair lady drive by looking at me. She gets clear down to the end of the road, does a U-turn and comes back, reaches out the window to hand me her gloves. No kidding. I smiled and thanked her, showing her my beaver over-mitts and assured her I was really quite comfortable. "Oh you poor dear, I thought you working in this weather with no gloves and I just couldn't bear the thought of that". Have to say that made me smile.
Williwaw, post: 408187, member: 7066 wrote: Just last week I was out working on a project, temps were in the single digits. I had to go so looked both ways, nobody coming, pulled off my gloves and took care of my business. As I'm shaking the blood back into my fingers before putting my gloves warming up in my jacket back on, I look up to see an old blue hair lady drive by looking at me. She gets clear down to the end of the road, does a U-turn and comes back, reaches out the window to hand me her gloves. No kidding. I smiled and thanked her, showing her my beaver over-mitts and assured her I was really quite comfortable. "Oh you poor dear, I thought you working in this weather with no gloves and I just couldn't bear the thought of that". Have to say that made me smile.
I thought you were going to say she had offered up a pair gloves that would better fit your "small fingers" she thought she saw....;)
It's always an elderly lady that performs these random acts of kindness.
I'm fearful about what things will be like when that generation is gone. Will the next generation step up and carry on?
while brushing out a traverse years ago, I came out of the woods dirty and with torn clothes from the briars to have a lady stop and give me a card advertising the homeless shelter run by the church down the road.
James Vianna, post: 408196, member: 120 wrote: while brushing out a traverse years ago, I came out of the woods dirty and with torn clothes from the briars to have a lady stop and give me a card advertising the homeless shelter run by the church down the road.
I thought I saw a survey crew the other day pulled over on the side of the highway....it was a 'work release' prison crew pickup up trash...(we should dress better)
Yep - I've had people ask me if I was working off Community Service time ...
Hot summer, cutting line with brushaxe, aka ditchbank blade, near a golf course. The astonished look on the golfers face.
I guess they figured "now theres a fella that values his golf balls!"
imaudigger, post: 408190, member: 7286 wrote: It's always an elderly lady that performs these random acts of kindness.
I'm fearful about what things will be like when that generation is gone. Will the next generation step up and carry on?
The lady that brought me coffee couldn't have been 30 years young!
I've had clients and adjoiners bring us cold Cokes and/or tea on hot summer days. when I was the head of the survey department for an engineering company I made it a practice to deliver coolers of cold drinks (especially lemonade) to crews that I knew were working in particularly tough areas. Sometimes it's the small things that are appreciated and remembered the longest.
Andy
Back when I was bulletproof, I was running a fever on a very hot day on a project that "had to be done today". I walked out of a swamp and up a steep hill. I noticed an adjoining owner by his house. I had a question about the line, so I went over to ask him what he knew. He looked at me and said son you need to sit down over here in the shade. I sat down and immediately felt like I was going to black out. He went in the house and brought me some ice water. I sat on his porch and cooled down for about an hour. He told me that no job was worth losing your life. He may have well saved me from death or at least a heat stroke. I went home and told the client to pound sand. I laid in bed for about a week and went back and finished the survey. Maybe he was my guardian angel.
I wasn't going to tell anyone this.... No, I can't. Just pay it forward guys, it works for me.
Last summer we were doing a boundary on a hot day for a woman who was very nice but a royal PITA - nonstop questions, and couldn't really grasp the answers so kept repeating herself. Any ill will I might have been developing instantly vanished when she appeared with a pitcher of fresh lemonade and two large glasses of ice.
surveyorjake, post: 408225, member: 8349 wrote: The lady that brought me coffee couldn't have been 30 years young!
Maybe you were getting hit on and didn't know it.
Maybe just sharing the light and love of Jesus Christ? What do you think?
imaudigger, post: 408246, member: 7286 wrote: Maybe you were getting hit on and didn't know it.
Being 61 years myself, even MY ego won't let me believe that! It is nice to know she had no connection to the project at all and still did this.
Why are some people so nice?
I try to be a jerk occasionally just to keep things in check.
Where are all these nice people....all I get is..."why are you on my property"....." I don't think that is right"....or " my friend is an engineer and I will have him check this out"...
