When asked what am I surveying for I usually say MONEY...
They are gonna build an amusement park with roller coasters, you know, its for the kids...
They are gonna build an amusement park with roller coasters, you know, its for the kids...
"..... and anyone that helps me tote stakes gets a free season pass for the first year!"
"A paycheck this Friday" has always been fun. Worst I ever said (during these loathsome Butch Jones years) at that particular institution was that "Alabama has bought this place".
FTR, I am all Vol.
Many years ago I got a phone call from an old woman and without introduction she asked; "What is the bright green survey ribbons used for"? I stuttered and stammered for a bit and asked her where she was and she got frustrated that I wouldn't just answer her question but I eventually discovered that she lived near a road that was having some utility work performed and someone (not me) was doing some surveying and there was "bright green ribbons"?ÿ on some branches.
I tried dismissing it and getting rid of her but she would not let up so I decided to fuel her suspicions and told her in a worried concerned manner; Me: "Ma'am are you sure it is the bright green ribbon"
Woman: "Why...yes"
Me: "I was afraid of that"
Woman: "Of what"
Me: "Surveyors don't use the bright green often"
Woman: "Why not"
Me: "That color is for a transparent overhead sewer line"
Woman: "A TRANSPARENT OVERHEAD SEWER, YOU MEAN IT IS GONNA BE SEE THROUGH AND IN THE AIR"?
Me: "Why yes"
Woman: "Well that means I will have to look at the poop, why would they make a sewer line see through"?
Me: "It makes it easier to find where a clog is"
Woman: "Well I'm not gonna have that, I got to go and call the county" CLICK.
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Sure hope the "old woman" doesn't know your address, if she does you are in for a BIG ass-whipping.
That was with my first survey business about 16 years ago and while I never hear a word about it I fully expected some kind of verbal tongue lashing that never came. I have moments where I can be what is described as a "wise ass".
I nearly lost my job after telling a neighbor that we were building an overhead glass sewer line. I was just a snot-nosed kid at the time.
I nearly, excuse my language "pissed myself", reading this, a veteran LS that brought me up as a chainman, still going today BTW at 70+years old, used this same line on a job we were doing 14-15 years ago, in Beverly Hills. You can imagine the blank response we got from?ÿthe couple that asked what movie we were shooting clearly weren't used to the hired help out smart-assing them.
Reminds me back in the early 2000's when we were surveying out near Preston, Washington, to ascertain R/W for a very old state highway. The proposed I-605 bypass freeway was in the news once again (proposed since the 1960's, maybe earlier but never built). One gal came out of her house, looked at us and said, "You guys aren't gonna build that I-605 freeway through here, are you?" or words to that effect. My response: "Not this year."
IIRC she was not too pleased.
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