Quality - VS - Time

[kodydog]

A funny story. When we were having our phone line installed in our house, a guy came out with a heavy duty Ditch Witch to bury the cable.

He was a talkative fellow and he told me something I'll always remember. He said his daddy once told him, a lazy man always dose twice the work. Meaning if you don't do it right the first time your eventually going to have to do it over.

The funny part is I dug a hole in the ground so he could access the conduit to the phone box. He wanted to get that Ditch Witch just as close to the hole as he could knowing he would have to hand dig the last couple feet. Damned if that thing didn't fall right into the hole. Put a little nick in my siding. Took a 4 wheel drive to pull it out. He was very embarrassed and kept apologizing. I let him save face and told hem we all make mistakes and a little paint will cover the nick.

I think he proved his own point.