How stupid can I get

holy-cow · 2017-04-23T16:02:00Z

I know I shouldn't toss out such a great opportunity for Cow bashing, but, maybe I deserve it.Worked on a job on Friday in an attempt to get it done before the monsoon arrived, so we took a few short cuts. Simple job once we had determined our limitations on what had to be on the tract being severed from a quarter section. All we had to so was set the four corners of a rectangle and place one extra marker along each side near the hilltop to assist in future fence construction. We were near the center of the tract when we finally were able to determine the acceptable dimensions. So we set a marker on the south sideline, then went to the southeast corner, the northeast corner, set a marker along the north line and finally set the northwest corner. Then we dashed off to job two for the morning.We made great progress on the second job until the monsoon hit and we were DONE for the day. As we later stopped for lunch we were talking about the first job. Then it hit me. We never set the southwest corner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!In over 30 years of running my own company I cannot recall another case of driving away from a job without having set all of the corners simply because we (that's the mouse in your pocket form of we) forgot to do so.

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I'm not a Boy Scout. I prefer to travel light. Of course, that leads to return trips to get whatever it is that is really needed that I did not predict would be needed prior to my planned return. Unless I'm on foot, that's not a big deal. So, the odds of leaving something behind or losing it along the way is not a big problem.

Forgetting to finish the job........................that's downright unforgivable.

Posted : May 4, 2017 7:18 pm

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