Sitting on the back porch this evening my eye was drawn to the big pine out back and I found myself aligning it with one of the columns of the porch to see how straight it was. I realized that this has been a problem I have had forever and my wife frequently asks, "what are you looking at". So it was one day as I was overseeing the work of a new beach complex at Delaware Water Gap NRA in Pa. Late one afternoon I left the office (trailer) and walked out to the being constructed bathhouse. They had just finished installing the porch overhang and as I walked the columns came into view, one after the other, and my eye instantly assessed the true-ness of them. I could plainly see that three were not in line with the others, so I went to the front of the building and stopped. Within minutes the entire crew stopped work and looked down at me and then the foreman said "whats wrong now", (I did my job well). I said the columns were out of alignment and he said "bull shit, I did them myself". I said " did you use a level or plumb-bob? He shouted, 'get me my level" and down he came. He placed the level to the first one and said, "perfect". I said, "I didn't say which ones and he went to number 2 and checked, than said, "fuck , how can you see that from there." I turned and went back to the office. The next morning they were all straight and true. I never did tell him.
