one of oil field buddies bought himself a house.
it was in a HOA.
as we were going on days off he asked me to stop over to his place and give him a helping hand.
no problemo.
i get there and he says we need to go to home depot or lowes and get a tree, the HOA requires it.
all right,, where does this tree go.
he says well the dude come put a big giant orange X right where it's supposed to be.
well let's go find the big orange X then.
off we go i'm looking on his lawn, and he is looking at the parking strip.
there it is he says...
man on the strip that's gonna suck digging that hole.
no,, it's not on the strip.
what?
it's right here in the middle of the sidewalk.
your uhh, your kidding.
nope, the X lined up with all the other trees going up his street.
some on the parking strip, some on the front lawn,, but they made a dead string straight line from corner to corner.
i don't know who wrote that rule.
but he had no recourse.