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Tim Milton
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Q. What are you surveying for?

Me: The government is taking this land for a new nuclear waste disposal site.


 
Posted : August 11, 2012 11:08 am
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> Q. What are you surveying for?
> Me: The government is taking this land for a new nuclear waste disposal site.

They're paying fair market value, but don't worry, they won't need your property; just your adjointers.


 
Posted : August 11, 2012 12:14 pm
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Harold

Sometimes humor can be useful, Keith.

Once, on asurvey in the mountains of Northh County San Diego, a guy ina pickup came screchingn up to us on the site. I was wanreddd that one of the neighbors was "hostile".

The guy jumped out of the truck loudly demanding to know what we were doing.

Since I noticed awindow sticker on his truck for the North Island Navy Base, I told him that we were laying out the new submarine pens and that I kept telling the office that the coordinates were wrong, but "...you know Navy brasss. They're never wrong!"

When he sopped laughing, he askedd again, much friendlier.

I mshareddwhat wewere doing and what we had found.

He spent the next hour discussing the history of the area and showing us some monuments that I doubt we would have ever found without his help. He turned out to a huge asset.

Sometimes, Keith, humor can be very useful, but you do have to be careful how you use it and with whom.


 
Posted : August 11, 2012 1:11 pm
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Ian

I fully realize that, but the asinine remarks about surveying for a 4 lane interstate and will have to take the house,,,,,is not funny.

Keith


 
Posted : August 11, 2012 1:31 pm
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