Did I say something wrong? :shrug:

[Pete in MI]

Sherry and I ate at a chinese restaurant today in Cadillac, MI. As we went to pay the bill at the cash register a lady was there chatting with the oriental gentleman at the cash register. I over heard her say to him "I love the 4 seasons of Michigan. They are so wonderful."
The oriental guy said he agreed. Well ya know me I had to interject something. I said "4 seasons? I thought there were only 2 - Winter and Road Construction." The oriental guy started to laugh and the lady, well, she just said "I won't comment on that as I work for the State".
She left and then we paid our bill and the oriental guy agreed about the winter and road construction.

As we walked out to our van I saw a vehicle parked in the lot near ours. It was orange and on the side there was a sign "MDOT". (That stands for Michigan Department of Transportation.....the ones who tear up the roads and rebuild them). I pointed it out to Sherry and she said that is probably her truck.

As we drove down the road I looked off to the right side of the road in a parking lot and there were probably 30 or more orange trucks with MDOT on the side of them. (I think Cadillac is the northwest division for MDOT). Guess I should know my audience before I joke around. Going to have to watch out....they might have my license number from the van.

On another strange note as we drove home the road conditions were getting bad fast, snow and sleet falling making roads very slick. On our way back I turned on the CB radio in our van to hear the truckers talk about road conditions. As a MDOT snowplow passed in the opposite direction we were headed one of the truckers commented..."I saw he was putting salt down but his plow blade under the truck wasn't on the pavement scraping anything." Another truck driver laughed and said "that ain't his job to scrape the roads." Well, he must have been right because a few more miles down the road came another plow and this one had its blade down.

I told Sherry that makes a lot of sense. The first guy puts salt down to melt the ice and the other truck comes through to toss the rock salt off into the shoulder of the road.

I'm guessing I am not liked much by MDOT.

 

[Magyar]

That is hilarious, Pete...I love it!!

You said nothing wrong...you told the truth..and the truth sometimes hurts!

 

[Mike from MI "Iron Brigade"]

They should be happy! They always have work!

 

[Mike Chgo area]

n/t

 

[gvanvekoven]

You think the State workers are bad..........try working for the Federal Government as I have for too many years. Man - State workers
haven't got anything on Federal Employees. Most Federal Employees I have ever known in my long career that were conscientious
were those who use metal detectors (yep - that would be the EOD types). I know that sounds kind of biased, but think about it.
Would you rather have someone spending your tax money that is not willing to get off his or her rear end all day, or someone that is
willing to dig a foot deep hole with a garden trowel for a penny? Heres a good example. I can still remember getting called in for
career counselling because I asked a co-worker if he was born again. Yep. The guy turned me in, I suppose because he thought it
would earn him some brownie points. If not for the fact that my boss at the time was a Christian, I could have gotten 2 weeks off
without pay for even trying to talk to him about Christ. Things like this do happen all the time. Things are getting worse all around
us. I wasn't pounding on the guy or anything like that, not like some people do that knock on my door all the time. You just can't
joke around with most of them like you did. Guilty conscious more than likely the reason the person you mentioned took things the
way she did. The truth hurts.

Christians will be persecuted.....and are right now. It's a crazy world we live in. Funny thing - the guy that turned me in - was a State
Park Ranger before he came to work for the Fed. I love those folks and have had many good conversations with them - but once in a
while - I run into the "little dictator". You know the ones. The federal government is FULL of them.

Some advice for your safety - If you or anyone else in the forum happens to dig up anything that resembles ordnance -
Don't play with the stuff. Stop digging, Alert other diggers, Mark it close by, keep people away - and call the authorities.
Some of that old stuff can be very sensitive. Sorry - I am rambling and way off the subject line Pete. Don't let people like that
kill your sense of humor. If they can't take it . Too bad.

 

[Pete in MI]

job only lasted a couple years. My supervisor told us to do our jobs then become scarce. He said there is a simple rule to follow:
"Hide and if found, Lie".

We had lots of people entering our building and if any of us were anywhere where people could see and talk to us...they did. We were janitors but to them we were 'the government' they had a problem with. So Hide and if found, Lie made lots of sense.

Also was in the Air Force for 11 years - last 4 years as a Law Enforcement Shift Supervisor. Its the 'government' too.

I have plenty of scare stories about all those jobs....especially around Nukes and how one day in the spring of 1971 the world almost had a war with nukes dropped on Russia....am glad God was not sleeping that day. We'd all be gone. But that is another story I hate to relive very often....seconds only stood between us and launch of rockets and B-52s.

 

[Paul(NWO)]

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[Greg from Mi.]

But I to have seen the salt truck go by only to see the plow scrape it off a few minutes later. I have seen this more then once. I was told that the salt melts the ice just enough so the plow can remove it so there doing there job.
HOWEVER
Why do they take a hole and put twice as much fill in it to make the hole a bump?
Greg

 

[warthog]

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[Pete in MI]

so they can erect a sign that says Bump Ahead....5 feet before the bump

 

[gvanvekoven]

You guys crack me up! BTW - I have never figured this one out. Perhaps brain dead has taken it's toll. Why is it that when I dig a hole, I never have enough dirt to fill the hole back in? What's the deal?

 

[Magyar]

That is a really good question gvanvekoven..I can't figure it out either; there has to be some scientific explanation.. "Inquiring minds want to know"...somebody please enlighten me on this mystery