Matt's Murmurs

So....you're driving across a bridge and notice that some people are working on the shoulder. You see signs and cones closing the shoulder on the bridge. Do you a) proceed cautiously and move into a lane away from the shoulder that's closed, b) completely ignore the signs and cones continuing your cell phone call and Egg McMuffin, or c) assume that the workers are just acting like they're working on the bridge and conclude that they're really terrorists and promptly call the police to report them??

Well, someone chose option c) while we were working on the Fremont Bridge last week. Apparently, they felt that our Enterprise Rent-a-van with flasher on top looked suspicious. They determined that our signs and cones (which take us about one half hour to 45 min. to put up and take down each day) were part of the act and that our vests and hard hats were a costume.

And y'all probably thought that engineering was boring. Well, if you find yourself driving south on 405 on the top deck of the Fremont Bridge next week and see some guys with an Enterprise van working on the shoulder, feel free to honk but realize that we aren't trying to take down the bridge. We actually like the bridge and think it should stay.