driving a car pulls up next to me as I'm sitting at a red light, and I can over hear the wife/girlfriend say to the male driver...'ask him how to get to Walnut beach..he's a surveyor, they always know where they are'...
I chuckled a bit and of course, gave them directions to the beach.
Have you ever given someone directions and then as they drove away realized you told them wrong? That's embarrassing.
Good directions make it so they can't find you and complain about the free advice.
You should have given them coordinates. I hear they are all the rage now.
There's a 5 diamond resort in East Harwich called the Wequassett. It is very hoity and toity, but it is definitely in East Harwich. They have an office in Chatham and happen to have all of their information referencing the Chatham address. If you want hoity and toity, you don't want to be located in East Harwich.
So a frustrated newlywed couple came into the office. They followed the directions to the Wequassett but got to the Harwich Town Line and figured they missed the prestigious resort. After turning around, they made it to our office. We told them to go back the way they came and they could not miss the sign. A while later they came back.
The new bride began to bawl when we told her she would be staying in Harwich. It had been a long drive for them and that news just sent her over the edge. "I am going to the Wequassett Inn in Chatham, I just want to be in the Inn in Chatham."
I wish I had such trivial problems. Perhaps for her next marriage, her new hubby will spring for Chatham Bars Inn...
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You can't get there from here..........
Last week a lady stopped as the client and I were walking down the road. She asked us how to get to a town about 5 miles away, but, stranded from her direction by road construction. The client told her the best way to get there.
As she drove off, I turned to the client and said, "You should have ended with, 'But, what do I know; I live in Arizona.'
We were surveying the old family homestead, but, he hasn't lived there in over 50 years.
When I worked in
Paducah Kentucky, me and the rodman were stopped at a traffic light and the couple next to us rolled their window down to ask us directions to the 'adult' bookstore.
Surprisingly (for a survey field crew), neither one of us actually knew where it was located.
When I worked in
When I was a young it was a standing joke that if you wanted to find the nearest dispenser of adult beverages, ask a survey field party.
B-)
When I worked in
if it looks like the driver asking for directions has a sense of humor, i tell them ' you can't get there from here, you'll have to take the bus'. usually gets a chuckle
I'm surveying a ranch boundary on the east side of a mountain, and I'm standing on a private ranch road near the middle of this picture getting ready to set a couple of line points on each side of the road so the fencer can install a gate.
This guy driving a Truck pulling a boat pulls up and wants directions to a lake on the west side of the mountain. I tell him how I've gotten there and he gets all ticked off. He says there is a cut-off road somewhere nearby and I should know about it.
There I was in the middle of nowhere, getting into an argument with a guy who was tresspassing.
I think about it for a second and tell him to go away because I'm really busy. He does; swearing at me as he drives off!