I'm amazed. So...you fit right in with the architects that you
encounter?
(Okay, I challenge the need to wait until the backfill has begun to
announce that you know the pipe is wrong...but let's not go there
today.)
-jc
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 08:58 PM, Ralph Walter wrote:
> In a message dated 2/1/2003 9:38:43 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> You had a spec writing teacher? In architecture school? No wonder you
> are so jaded!
>
>
>
> He was the best teacher we had. Told us about a job where, among the
> rest of his duties, he was supposed to make sure the right grade of
> CI waste pipe was laid underneath a future parking lot. The first day
> there, he noticed that the pipe was laid with the grade mark facing
> down. He asked the contractor if it was the right pipe, and the
> contractor said "yes." The next day, they had laid the rest of the
> pipe in a similar fashion, and again the contractor assured him it was
> the right grade. The contractor asked if he could backfill the trench
> on the third day, and he said "sure, as long as you've laid the right
> pipe." So on the fourth day, he had the contractor reexcavate the
> entire pipe run, because he had felt along the underside of the pipe
> for the grade mark, and saw that it was wrong on the first day. > Yes!!!
>
> I think I've told this story to the Pinheads before, and my apologies
> to those with sufficient operable brain cells to remember it from last
> time around.
>
> And he did say that we better pray that anybody who fell into an
> asphalt kettle died, and died quickly.
>
> Ralph
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