I got a call from a potential client that was on some very illegal drugs and I wish I could have recorded the monologue as a classic "crazy client" bit. She spoke a hundred words a minute saying essentially the same thing about how somebody moved a pin and she had land stolen from her and another surveyor wouldn't set that fourth pin but she knows she has coming what's on her deed and somebody pulled that pin and would I make sure she got what she had on her deed if I start at that back corner pin because it hasn't moved and somebody stole her land anyway and when the cops were out there at her trailer they couldn't do anything anyway but the deed was from back in two thousand and 1997 and it said that ...... It was a run on sentence for 25 minutes and she easily had another 25 on the subject. I got about four words in and actually had things to do. I managed to ask her to send me what she had and I would look at it, really just needing to get as far away from that situation as possible. I don't mind surveying problems, they pay well, but crystal meth adds a whole other dimension that I'm not interested in. I was picturing the Joy character from My Name is Earl on speed and with no teeth.
No money for anything but more meth supplies.
Ask for the money upfront.
I may not have been entirely upfront with her. She called my office landline and my suggestion was for her to text the information she had to that number. Odds are pretty good that I won't get the information.