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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Foxfire5" data-source="post: 3846129" data-attributes="member: 50971"><p>Worst scare I ever had when I was General Foreman on forty story Society Hill Towers in Philadelphia PA. There are four buildings. I was shooting bench marks on number two for HVAC placement at building #2. I had to talk to the Project Manager down on the first floor and had to take my Nikon Theodolite instrument with me so it wouldn't grow legs. Conversation got lengthily and in a hurry to get back to job at hand, I left it. Got on the elevator and at 38th remembered what I forgot. Headed back and it was gone and the PM was gone and nobody knew nothing. Went looking for him in all four buildings. At number three building he got on the elevator as I was coming down. He gave the instrument to a apprentice engineer to take to me. Told the kid wrong building. Now the kid was looking for me. After a long time looking I heard the Carpenter Foreman's whistle end of day. As I was getting off at ground level the Elevator Operator said hey Ben you forgot your instrument. It was in the corner where the operator sits. Holy Chit was I happy that I didn't have to put out somewhere like four grand for a new one and take a year to pay for it. I never did find out how it got there. Really Didn't Care.</p></blockquote><p></p>