Things have been a little quiet around the blog lately, I’ll be the first to admit it. Work has been absolutely insane, 12 hour work days six days a week. There are days when the weather is beautiful and I’ve accomplished so much and I love my job, and then there are days when I have to go home and cry for an hour on my lunch break. You know, the usual highs and lows?
And not that there isn’t a lot to talk about. But it’s all work. In fact, a co-worker and I were just commenting on how we could write a book about all the crazy stuff that happens in our jobs.
But I don’t talk about work on here, namely because there are a lot of very sensitive issues that we deal with that involve lawyers and the government and blah blah blah.
In other words, you know your job might be a bit high profile if a bomb scare means that Homeland Security comes out to pay you a visit. In fact, your job might be high profile if it gets a bomb scare. (Don’t worry, it wasn’t a bomb, just an poorly-placed geocache site.)
But this one thing is almost too funny to be real. And since I don’t have much else to talk about…
In the course of what we do, we sometimes have to employ road flaggers to divert traffic around our operations. This can cause some delays to the normal traffic flow, which of course we minimize as much as possible, but still it results in some unavoidable traffic stops. We occasionally get complaints from members of the public who are affected by our work.
This is an actual complaint.
A gentlemen called to tell us that he had eaten at one of the local restaurants that day. Unfortunately, his meal didn’t sit too well with him. He was driving back to his house, but it took him longer than usual because of the traffic delays from our flaggers. And, well, he didn’t make it home in time. And he had an accident…. in his pants.
Oh yes, you read that right. He called to complain that we made him crap his pants.
