-Tony Schroeder
For some reason, Field
Surveyor Ryan Francis seems to regularly be the victim of bad luck, accidents,
and embarrassment here at Choice One. For instance, he has:
- Backed a survey truck into a power pole. In the middle of a 50-acre field.
- Routinely gotten the survey truck stuck on job sites.
- Broken the back door window out of a truck when he "opened the back door and did not see another guy standing there holding a sledge hammer over his shoulder."
- Dropped his cell phone in a manhole.
- Had a survey instrument and tripod blow over in heavy wind.
You get the point.
Luckily, he has broad
shoulders (both literally and figuratively), so he generally takes all the
ribbing he gets in stride. Unless he's hungry. Then, by all means, stay out
of his way.
When something bad happens,
it's easy to ask "Why me?" and feel gloom and doom about whatever predicament is
at hand. But there's another option: to look at each bit of adversity as an
opportunity to learn, improve, and/or try again.
Granted, when unfortunate
stuff happens to Ryan, there may not always be an obvious lesson
for Ryan to learn, like "measure twice, cut once," or "wait 30 minutes
after eating to swim." But it does give him the opportunity to learn to
laugh at himself (which he always does), no matter how unlucky he is. And it
gives the rest of us here (and now you, as well) the opportunity to laugh at
him...er, laugh with him... too.
We just hope his abundance
of misfortunes come to an end. For his sake AND ours.
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