I'm convinced its gonna be by one of two ways...1) A distracted driver...texting, emailing or facebooking while driving...or 2)electric cars...them things are so quiet...too quiet!....they sneak up on you.
That is why you have to set out cones and wear a vest; to make it easier for your widow's attorney to collect.
😉
Ken
Joe the Surveyor, post: 325480, member: 118 wrote: I'm convinced its gonna be by one of two ways...1) A distracted driver...texting, emailing or facebooking while driving...or 2)electric cars...them things are so quiet...too quiet!....they sneak up on you.
3) Eleven year old Mexican kid driving the Roach Coach 68 mph through the construction project..... :whistle:
FL/GA PLS., post: 325482, member: 379 wrote: 3) Eleven year old Mexican kid driving the Roach Coach 68 mph through the construction project..... :whistle:
4 some horrendous new tick or chigger borne illness
Tom Waits: live fast,
die young,
have a good lookin' corpse everytime
Ken Salzmann, post: 325481, member: 398 wrote: That is why you have to set out cones and wear a vest; to make it easier for your widow's attorney to collect.
😉
Ken
I had an I-man who didn't like to set out cones in traffic situations.
I (tongue in cheek) told him if is hit and killed his wife will get $10,000 per cone.
He always set out all the cones after that. :whistle:
After working for a highway contractor and spending my whole life out in traffic, I realized I was complacent and felt at ease standing in a roadway.....that scared me! Once you're not scared out there, your odds of becoming road kill go up. I stand on the curb and bark orders at the youngins' nowadays. B-)
5) Paranoid pot grower.
Moe Shetty, post: 325483, member: 138 wrote: 4 some horrendous new tick or chigger borne illness
5.) Lethal injection after I strangle a contractor.
FL/GA PLS., post: 325482, member: 379 wrote: 3) Eleven year old Mexican kid driving the Roach Coach 68 mph through the construction project..... :whistle:
"roach coach" is an outdated term, sir. "food truck" is the acceptable term and i, for one, particularly enjoy eating 13 dollar crepes in a parking lot next to a briggs and stratton generator. please get with the times.
flyin solo, post: 325505, member: 8089 wrote: "roach coach" is an outdated term, sir. "food truck" is the acceptable term and i, for one, particularly enjoy eating 13 dollar crepes in a parking lot next to a briggs and stratton generator. please get with the times.
Well, I Sir, am also outdated so "Roach Coach" suffices for my needs, besides there are more roaches than food in these mobile purveyors of Dysentery. 😉
I've had so many close calls from cell using drivers and "Blue Hairs" who should have lost the licenses years ago I am paranoid about doing jobs that involve street surveys:excruciating:
flyin solo, post: 325505, member: 8089 wrote: "roach coach" is an outdated term, sir. "food truck" is the acceptable term and i, for one, particularly enjoy eating 13 dollar crepes in a parking lot next to a briggs and stratton generator. please get with the times.
Give 'em a break...do you know how many $13 crepes you have to sell to pay off your student loan for that Masters Degree in Puppetry
Does that degree make one a master of puppets?
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6) Trigger happy homeowner mistaking me for a prowler in an orange vest.
7) Electrocution sinking a 30" rebar into an unmarked and shallow high voltage power cable that was suppose to be down 48" but contractor figured 12-18" was close enough.
8) A slow and agonizing death by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts.
The most deadly drivers are not the ones distracted by a phone or anything else. The most deadly drivers are the ones that you can see and they are looking directly at you the entire time, somehow mesmerized and attracted to the very spot you are occupying. Because you know they are looking at you, you are more likely to put off evasive action until it is too late.
1. Always wear a safety vest and put out cones. Have no faith in their ability to keep you safe because they won't have the slightest effect on the doofus drivers, but it will make it a lot easier for your widow to collect.
2. Don't make eye contact.
3. Be ready to drop the rover and run, fast.
4. Always give your spouse a hug and some kind words as you say you are off to work. One of these days it will be the last time.
I've had too many close calls, including two head on crashes that happened just as I was waiting to walk into the intersection. I've also had several near misses while innocently crossing the street in a crosswalk, with the light, wearing my safety jacket, in plain sight (but the driver was looking left so he could run the red light on a turn).
This is a great thread. Cathartic.
There are no paranoid pot growers here in Oregon now! July 1st growers are legal!
Now it is only Drunks, Stoners, Texters, Emailers, People driving while applying make up, coffee drinkers, people having strokes or heart attacks and on and on and on.
We had one guy that would just walk out in traffic without looking, We always figured we would die from someone swerving to miss him!
Everyone have a safe 4th. Here in Oregon the whole state is in some kind of fire watch.
Joe
Roach Coach, Botulism Buggy, Ptomaine Wagon. I have been on jobs where I'd have loved to have them. Then again I've seen some that I'd RUN away from. These days the "Food Trucks" cook onsite and are a whole different ballgame.
KILLER BEES!
A few years back there was a lot of news about killer bees making their way North from South America. With all the bright colors we wear and are around I always thought we were increasing our odds of attracting them to us. Getting stung to death would be a bad way to die. Jp
