This is a great story dawg-boy. I drill oil. There was a site I was on outside of Dallas that was drilled out in the 1950's. The field had laid dormant for a few years but was being brought online as the population grew onto the field. (The closer the homes, the cheaper the pipeline costs).

We pulled into a home development around 4 pm on a Saturday. It had a shiny new model home, parents meeting each other, etc. They watched our trucks pull in like we were the plague. We hooked up hoses, churned generators (PTO's), and started circulating the well.

A woman walks over and asks/tells, "I thought these wells didn't work? That's what the model home lady told us?"

I was polite as I could be. But I had to tell her that we were turning the field on and that this was, in fact, and active field.