The last time I walked a site before the signal guy gave me the all clear, I burned 45 minutes pacing around fill that ended up being fine. That 50 ton pick sank because the ground crew had already set the cribbing on a base that shifted, not because nobody checked it. If you trust the signal guy to manage the lift sequence, you might as well trust him on the ground, that's literally his job.

Started thinking about this more and realized it’s the same reason why when you ask someone how their day was they just say fine but if you ask them what they ate for lunch you get a whole story about the weird sandwich they tried. Physical stuff just gives your brain a hook to hang everything else on, it’s like your imagination needs a solid thing to push off from before it can start making connections to feelings and memories. Abstract prompts make you try to grab the feeling first which is backwards because feelings are usually tangled up in specific moments and objects and places anyway. Kinda like how I can never remember a song’s title but I can hum the melody right away, the concrete stuff is just easier for your brain to latch onto.