I'm back in the office first time this week due to an upper respiratory infection that has still not completely resolved itself. At lunch time I decided to shut my office door and turn the light off to get a good look at the inside of my eyelids for a bit. About 30 minutes into a decent rest, my phone rings and I answer to find a fellow surveyor on the line.
He begins by telling me that he is following my work on a subdivision in Lumpkin Heights in Potentate County. It's a messy subdivision but he thinks my pins are 10 feet east of where they should be and he was wondering if I had any information that I could share with him that would justify the 10 foot shift. My brain is slowly awakening and then moving into panic mode as I try to recall that type of project and the closest I can think of is some subdivision work I did in Henrietta. He continues to describe the problems in the area and other surveyors who have had their fingers in the cookie jar as I fire up google earth to remember just exactly where Lumpkin Heights is. When it resolves on the screen, I'm really scratching my head because I've never set my pins in that county. I've worked for other surveyors when I was a technician but there shouldn't be any caps with my number unless someone misappropriated my caps.
I ask him if he's sure he's got the right person. Takes him a minute to pull up the field data and then he abruptly apologizes as he transposed the registration number. Well dang if I ain't wide awake now. Someone else's phone is about to ring, though.
Maybe he needs to recheck his own work before he rings the other surveyor!
Must have been me surveying without a Tejas license if it was in Lumpkin Heights. That's just down the rode from Lumpkin Falls.
I think every state has a Lumpkinburg or Lumpkin Town.... Places where survey history is made. Or something like that.
He may have woke you from your nap, but at least you can sleep well tonight, knowing you aren't part of a 10 foot mistake.
Scott Ellis, post: 369722, member: 7154 wrote: He may have woke you from your nap, but at least you can sleep well tonight, knowing you aren't part of a 10 foot mistake.
Not really. What about all of those other ones that haven't been found yet.:woot:
[sarcasm]Everybody knows that the subdivision plat says 670ft and that the original deed to the property the call is 660ft[/sarcasm]
B-)
Doesn't matter that you are not involved, that call still sent gallons of stomach acid through your system!