I was doing a county job once and the landscape architect seemed confused. I told him we should curve one of the sidewalks to the north about 40’. He says Nope, I drew the plans and moving it would affect plants and stuff. I says ok, but the sidewalk on YOUR plans will go straight into a 4 foot high wall and I think the cripples will have a tough time getting over it in their wheelchairs and stuff. It sucked working on that job from then on. So it goes.
Ha, that’s a good one!
A ME engineer buddy of mine was doing some work at a power plant in Utah some years ago. The plant had been receiving an extraordinary number of lighting strikes over years and consultants and plant engineers had never been able to figure out why. Designs okay. Lightning rod design okay. Operating equipment okay. Thunderstorm around, Boom. My buddy heard about the problem while there on other business and took a walk out to the earth ground locations and measured soil moisture at the ground rods. Zip dry as a bone. Light bulb moment, no water in the soil = lousy ground. He had them put in a few small water injection wells at the ground rods and problems solved. No more booms. All in 1 days work.