"It's just a small survey"

If there's one phrase I'd like bannished from human existance, it would be "It's just a small survey" because whenever I hear that, I just know that I'm about to be thrown into a mansion. Sure enough, today I found myself on my own, trying to measure up a room that singuly had the floor area of an entire house. It happens the ceiling in that room was almost 5 metres high, double that of the average household. Unfortunatly this house isn't in the best of areas and the local kids, coming home from school, decided to test my car suspension...until the alarm went off...and so I decided to leave. I'll return first thing tomorrow morning to finish off.