I asked whether this was bad. He asked, “Compared to what?”

Maintenance Man calmly measures a huge crack in an office wall, marking it with a pencil line and date.
Maintenance Man calmly measures a huge crack in an office wall, marking it with a pencil line and date.

“What are we doing?” I asked.

“Checking if it moves,” he said.

“And if it does?”

“Then we stop checking.”