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A guy in a hardhat flagged me down at the Phoenix job site last Tuesday
He pointed at my tower crane and asked, completely serious, if I could swing the jib over to help him get his lunch box off the roof of his pickup truck. His keys were locked inside. I had to explain that a 300-foot crane isn't exactly a precision retrieval tool for a Tupperware container. Has anyone else had a request that made you just stop and stare for a second?
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emma7686mo ago
Honestly, that might win the prize for wildest request. The mental picture of trying to grab a lunchbox with a crane hook is just perfect. It really shows how some folks see the machine but not the actual function. Did he look disappointed when you said no?
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lindaj117mo ago
That request is next level, lol. Did he at least offer to buy you lunch for the attempt? Some people really don't grasp the scale of that equipment.
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henrygrant7mo ago
Yeah, it's like that with a lot of things, lindaj11. People see a big machine on TV and have no clue what it takes to run it. They'll ask you to move a whole house worth of stuff with a regular pickup truck, or expect a single person to unload a full shipping container in an hour. The disconnect between what folks imagine and what's actually possible is just huge sometimes.
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