Why look??

huskydog

Outside my shop the electricity board have dug up the pavement to do some repairs and there is a large hole ,why is it that everyone that walks past has to stop and look down the hole? ,what do they expect to see

JillwithaJay

Don't know HD.   I'm singing Bernard Cribbins song, "There I was digging this 'ole ..."

Perhaps the same reason as, when they see a 'wet paint' sign, they have to test it.  My dad used to put a blob of paint on something with a sign that said 'test here'. 

 

Cornersteady

HD, what shape hole is it?

huskydog

At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yet

Metheven

At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yet

Oh, you looked in it then

woodlanewanderers

Do you need a half spade to dig a half of a hole. I have never seen half a hole.

huskydog

At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yet

Oh, you looked in it then

Only to see if they have uncovered any of my bones

cariadon

 A body.

volvoman9

I reported a hole in the road to the police and they said they would look into it

v9

Cornersteady

At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yet

Oh, you looked in it then

that's why I asked

jeffcc

At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yet

Oh, you looked in it then

Only to see if they have uncovered any of my bones

So when they have finished digging the hole will it then be Oblong? twice as deep or just square but twice as big?

tombar

Don't know HD.   I'm singing Bernard Cribbins song, "There I was digging this 'ole ..."

Perhaps the same reason as, when they see a 'wet paint' sign, they have to test it.  My dad used to put a blob of paint on something with a sign that said 'test here'. 

 

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artyboo

People are naturally nosey. This is exactly why we get miles of tail backs on the motorway when there has been an 'incident' on the other side.

Takethedogalong

Don't knock digging holes, they found Richard III in one a couple of years ago! Just don't let anyone drop a cig end in!

IanH

Why look? 

To see what's there.......

huskydog

Why look? 

To see what's there.......

But all i can see is the bottom of a hole

IanH

Why look? 

To see what's there.......

But all i can see is the bottom of a hole

So you now know what's there.....

redface

How does that song go? "It all makes work for a working man to do."  So leccy dig a hole - puncture the gas main - Gas Board fracture the water pipe, water company breaks the sewer and they in turn sever the  TV/phone cables. Seems the best option may be
to move shop Husky. 

nelliethehooker

Perhaps they don't want to be seen looking in your window, HD!

neveramsure

Perhaps they are really tunnelling under your shop HD.

huskydog

It's been raining this morning, so iv'e now got a well outside the shop

IanH

Well I can't say I'm surprised......

redface

"Perhaps they are really tunnelling under your shop HD"

 Only the illegal immigrants probably - best to report them unless they can pay your rates for sleeping on the cellar floor.

dennisd

I was walking across a building site with a workmate, talking away and not watching were we were going. He fell into a deep hole, so deep I couldn't even see him but I could hear him moving around.

I shouted down " Paddy have you broken anything?"

"No"  he shouted back " it's empty"".

 

SteveL

Holes are interesting if you are a geologist Never know what strata there might be below the man made top layer, that's if it goes deep enough. There' ve been some fissures in a road near us, took them two weeks to fill in‼?

RichardPitman

I find such holes fascinating. Amazing to see all the pipes and cables that lie unseen beneath the surface. You'd really think that they'd have come up with something better than this by now, maybe some sort of services conduit covered by removable slabs.

Also interesting to see how thin the layer of road stone actually  is, before hole goes back into clay.

huskydog

they have just come to fill in the hole ,but didn't have enough soil to fill it ,so they dug another hole and used the soil from that

ABM

{  WOTSER  ==  Where  are  you  ?? }

Sigh,  Sigh  Sigh  Triple  squared  !! 

Sounds  like  somebody  has  found  a  bundle  of  1920's  "Radio  Fun"  comics  !

eyebrowsb

Well, people are looking at our hole which isn't even a hole .... yet   BT have identified, and spray painted a large area where
they are going to dig, just outside our house.  All the neighbours have been coming to have a look 

Navigateur

Just get some matching spray paint and mark off any bits of defective tarmac you would like relaid as well.

redface

Ah -  now, round my way they actually number the pot holes so we occasionally get 2 x no3, 3 no1 s and all sorts of other duplications. In the end they repair the lot!

Well done that guy who added others into the mix!