when you start carrying your tacks around in pill bottles, instead of a film can.
on a side note - film cans are exstinct now....
When you visit the local museum and realise that not only do you remember most of the items on display but you are still using most of them back home.
Yeah, I was just about to ask what is a film can?
When jumping over a fence doesn't seem to be as easy as it use to be
A small round plastic cannister originally used to hold 35mm film, but later put to use for storing various small objects.
I used a lot of them in the 1980's, but never once used them for storing tacks....:party:
When all the guys you worked with over the years are of retirement age and still working.
Your know you're getting older when
that ATV you got for fun becomes necessary to get you and your tools to the job and back to the truck.
when your wife tells you she is going to trade you in for a younger model.
If you ever used a film canister to hold your tacks, you know it was inevitable that you would get stuck when reaching in.
The ones I used were little tins and not plastic. Guess that puts me in the older/older crowd.
When you say "It Depends" and your NOT talking about anything related to surveying.
Hours of research reveal that the uncapped rebar you found was set by yourself when you were an LSIT.
My sister is a nurse and provided me with a lifetime supply of urine (can I say that) test bottles. Unused, of course. They work really good for PKs and tacks.
> The ones I used were little tins and not plastic. Guess that puts me in the older/older crowd.
Deral,
I've seen those type of canisters, but I'm not old enough to have bought film in them... and, of course, there were survey tacks in the two I have seen. Dad had one, and my old boss bought an office from an old timer and had one in the stuff.
When you actually consider both sides of the issue regarding whether a junior monumented position can control a senior line.
When an 8 hour day in the field wears you out.
(I used to tell the younguns on the crew that if they tied a tow rope to me I could drag them to death. I don't use that line anymore. Not just because I'm now operating solo).
When you no long joke that your retirement plan is pronounced "expirement".
When a pretty young thing smiles at you and you know she's probably not flirting with you, she's either just being nice or thinks you're funny looking.
Those are the ones Norm. Yep, I had bunch of them at one time.
When your best PC, a long term ( 10 years +) employee and trusted friend, finds a chain repair kit in your desk drawer and asks, "What's this?"
oops...I was logged in as SWMBO..sorry
When the young'ins start opening doors for you.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Typing class 9th grade!
I use baby food jars. I buy the baby food for my rats (no comment!) and then after wards use the jars for storing screws, tacks, buttons, coins, etc... Wendell uses them for spices. He has them all organized and labeled with my label making thing. 🙂
When you see instruments in the display case at Earl Dudley's office that you actually used yourself!
Or when commercials for a local hamburger chain's (Jack's) 50th anniversary and remember when they opened! I was 4 then.