Tom_in_CA
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.... You then say you talked to "Tom", who gave you the okay to metal detect there ....
This reminds me of a funny story that happened here locally : Some out of town friends were rolling through my part of the state, and wanted to do some detecting somewhere. As the day approached for their arrival, I dreamed up 2 locations I could take my buddies :
1) a Farm field where an adobe site (like a cellar hole) had been. As it turns out, I have permission for this spot.
2) an old town demolition site in nearby town, that I had *just* seen a newspaper piece about a building that was just torn down.
When my buddies showed up at the appointed time though, a work issue at my company arose, that was going to delay me by an hour or two. So I told them to start without me, and that I'd catch up with them. I scripted them on the 2 objectives, and added "If anyone says anything to you, tell them we have permission" (and I was referring to the farm field).
When I finally got out the door a few hours later, I arrived at the farm field to find that it was chalked full of crop. Not fallow ground as I had hoped. So I figured my friends had moved on to the 2nd site, where an old town demolition was going down.
When I caught up with my friends there, they said that some guy had tried to kick them out. But that they had told the person : "We have permission". And when the contractor snapped : "SAYS WHO ??", they merely replied : "Tom got permission" (or "Tom said" or something like that). Because my friends were confusing the farm field, with the demolition site. (I had no such permission for the demolition site).
When the contractor heard them say "Tom said", he shrugged his shoulders and told them to make sure and lock the gate on the way out.
Imagine my friend's surprise when I told them : "No, I have no idea who you talked to, and no, I don't have permission here". Oh well, we detected the rest of the day in the demo. site, and no one came out and said so much as "boo" to us .
Maybe the contractor knew someone named "Tom" ? Or maybe to merely say "We have permission" was enough for him to shrug his shoulders and assume we knew what we were doing ? I dunno. We got a good laugh out of that !