I considered this for the General chit chat column, but this isnt just chit chat, no, this is serious stuff.
It's all about surveying, not to be demeaned by such a menial post in 'chit chat'.
A post elsewhere highlights the divides between surveyors and our wonderful wives. Or more politically correct "wife".
That post pertained to driving habits and what we do in the call of duty.
Well yesterday I headed off to one of those typically easy jobs, we all know the ones, that only take about an hour maybe two.
I had also promised to grab some items at the supermarket.
Dear wife suggested (with that look and tone that means "TAKE") I take my lunch.
So off I head, finish the job, head over for the groceries and return home. Just in time for lunch!
Obviously oblivious to reality, I was informed later how shocked my wife was to see me heading down the drive and front up with my un-eaten lunch.
After all she well knows when I say, "see you soon, this shouldn't take long", that probably (most likely, nearly always, really) means, "Catch you later, please put the outside lights on so I don't fall over the whatever's as I carry my precious Nikon back to its mooring in the back porch."
Or am I all alone and the only surveyor that never misrepresents a job nor misinforms the other half about the truth of when she really will see me.
I think sometimes that I am mis-informed as to what I do!!!
N
Oh you mean like when you come back way after dark and your wife says "I thought that you were dead in the wood somewhere". She never really knows where I am or when I will be back. If I am working way out I will usually leave the clients name so they can go look for me if I am a no show.
T.W.
Oh you mean like when you come back way after dark and your wife says....
Not entirely, I've 'matured' a bit over the ages, probably more so since mobile phones!
I ring about 5 pm if I know its going to be later and then just as I'm leaving the job.
I must admit I was not very good at that in my younger days.
That said, she always knew where I was headed and what job I was going to.
Just not how late I'd be.
Yes - that's not to be taken lightly.
Most days I veer off in several directions that were not planned that way at 7:00 a.m. or the evening before. She would have the law officers search for my cell phone.
My wife is super understanding when it comes to that kind of stuff. You can almost set your watch by her. She always calls me on her way home to check up on me. Usually it is between 3:30 and 3:45 on normal days. Her new job it is between 3:30 and 5:00, depending on what she is working on.
I almost always underestimate the amount of time it takes to do the smaller jobs, or how much the land owners want to talk.
Richard, post: 330532, member: 833 wrote: Obviously oblivious to reality, I was informed later how shocked my wife was to see me heading down the drive and front up with my un-eaten lunch.
Never bring the lunch she made you lunch home!
Sounds like the voice of experience there, Dave. How was supper?
I was the victim of a vicious self-inflicted chainsaw wound a few years ago. After triage and bandage application, I determined there wasn't any arterial damage, and since we didn't have but about 2 hours of work left to finish the job, I told my guys that I could run the instrument if they would move it for me. I called my better half to tell her not to leave the office, that she would need to take me to the ER. She became quite irate, saying she was coming to get me, to which I replied, "You don't know where I am" and hung up the phone. She has threatened to have a tracking collar put on me since then, but so far I haven't been shot with a tranquilizer dart and tagged.
I don't know about you guys, but I can't ever get ANYTHING right. If my wife and I had to jump off a burning building, she'd tell me how I should have done it after we got to the ground. 😉
Joe W. Byrd, post: 330561, member: 10015 wrote: "You don't know where I am" and hung up the phone. She has threatened to have a tracking collar put on me since then,
Ha ha ha!
Sounds like my wife!
"Honey I'm hurt, but it's not real bad, so I'm gonna finish this survey.... It's taped up with survey ribbon, So, I'm not leaking....."
Ha ha ha
One time, up by Mountain Harbor, in Montgomery Co Ar, (some 25 yrs ago!) I pulled down a branch for my brother to cut. He cut it with a brush axe, and it CAME THROUGH the branch, and the end of the blade (Curved ditch bank blade, 48" wood handle) went into my wrist, and cut the tendon to my left thumb, so I could not pull the thumb out or open. I was mad at him "Now look! you weren't paying attention, and now I have to go to ER instead of finishing this survey". Looking back, we could have finished. I could have delayed using the thumb!
N
[USER=291]@Nate The Surveyor[/USER] She didn't really get mad at me until I got to the office and wouldn't go to the ER until after I took a shower. My son was trying to tell her that he could pour some alcohol over some staples and just staple the wound shut, to save us money. (He really just wanted to shoot the old man with a staple gun since I made him stay on the job).
My wife tells everybody she doesn't know what was worse: being married to me when I was in the Army or being a surveyor's wife.
Joe W. Byrd, post: 330574, member: 10015 wrote: My wife tells everybody she doesn't know what was worse: being married to me when I was in the Army or being a surveyor's wife.
Military service and Surveying......If the first doesn't make you hard headed, stubborn, and driven, the latter will. I speak from experience.:-P
Time for someone to provide a video link to the scene with the Black Knight in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Slice off his arm and it's merely a flesh wound.
Holy Cow, post: 330546, member: 50 wrote: Sounds like the voice of experience there, Dave. How was supper?
If you want lunch tomorrow you will not bring today's lunch home.
My wife and I have a "find friends" app on each others phones so when we need to we can open that up and see where the other is.
For work:
- In phone coverage we use an app called Glympse which you can easily customise to send any message to emails or phones with a link to a map.
- Out of phone coverage we have spot trackers which also sends emails with a link to maps.
Considering more and more these days I am out by myself, I think that the ability to easily let people know where you are is important.
Richard, post: 330532, member: 833 wrote: I considered this for the General chit chat column, but this isnt just chit chat, no, this is serious stuff.
It's all about surveying, not to be demeaned by such a menial post in 'chit chat'.
A post elsewhere highlights the divides between surveyors and our wonderful wives. Or more politically correct "wife".
That post pertained to driving habits and what we do in the call of duty.Well yesterday I headed off to one of those typically easy jobs, we all know the ones, that only take about an hour maybe two.
I had also promised to grab some items at the supermarket.
Dear wife suggested (with that look and tone that means "TAKE") I take my lunch.So off I head, finish the job, head over for the groceries and return home. Just in time for lunch!
Obviously oblivious to reality, I was informed later how shocked my wife was to see me heading down the drive and front up with my un-eaten lunch.
After all she well knows when I say, "see you soon, this shouldn't take long", that probably (most likely, nearly always, really) means, "Catch you later, please put the outside lights on so I don't fall over the whatever's as I carry my precious Nikon back to its mooring in the back porch."Or am I all alone and the only surveyor that never misrepresents a job nor misinforms the other half about the truth of when she really will see me.
I'm sorry, I just can't get over the poetry of the phrase "Obviously oblivious."
I'll cherish it and use it and never give credit for it to anyone else.
That phrase is mine!
Don
Don Blameuser, post: 330679, member: 30 wrote: I'm sorry, I just can't get over the poetry of the phrase "Obviously oblivious."
I'll cherish it and use it and never give credit for it to anyone else.
That phrase is mine!Don
If you're collecting phrases, here's another for your basket, "Generally speaking, women are generally speaking." 😉
