Eldon Rivas was in the middle of nowhere.

He's an electrical lineman, and he was replacing an old utility pole.

Before he could put up the new pole, though, he had to do a bit of work on it.

And so I was framing this pole, drilling holes through it with this auger and this drill.

And he's working off a blueprint, which can be kind of complicated, and he's

reading it, and he makes a mistake. I messed up. I was drilling like, oops. No, it's supposed to be

two foot above, not one foot. And so I had to real drill it. And so I climb up the old wood pole.

I'm up in the air, and I noticed on the wood pole, the old one that was on, I saw these

lines. And this pole, back in 1962, whoever was drilling this, had made the exact same mistake

I did.

Now, how did you know it was that old?

It has birth marks on it.

Yeah, every woodpole has like a stamp on it.

Okay.

And this dude made the exact same mistake.

That is wild.

And I'm like, oh my goodness.

Our industry is revolving door.

Yeah. Do you ever leave marks for the linemen of the future?

I do. I usually carry a little Sharpie with me, and I put a smiley face.

Just to brighten someone's day in the future.

That's my little, uh, it's my signature.

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