13th June 2006, 03:30 PM
I remember a site in a northern city some years ago (was a flowerbed now a large fountain, on the site of a church). We did the evaluation, I was only Project Officer at the time. Machine sent to backfill did an awful job, taking about 6 hours to fill in three 10m x 3m trenches, so I sent him back to the depot and asked for someone else to come out.
This was about 4pm on Friday.
Half an hour later a new machine appeared. Young driver leapt out of cab, sat down on the grass with us, made and smoked an enormous spliff of home-grown skunk, jumped back into machine and in half an hour did a perfect job of completing backfilling and levelling off the ground.
Not sure what the moral of the story is, but it was quite amusing at the time.
This was about 4pm on Friday.
Half an hour later a new machine appeared. Young driver leapt out of cab, sat down on the grass with us, made and smoked an enormous spliff of home-grown skunk, jumped back into machine and in half an hour did a perfect job of completing backfilling and levelling off the ground.
Not sure what the moral of the story is, but it was quite amusing at the time.