Unfortunate Life as a Contractor

Architect:  I'd like you to build me a complete house.

Contractor:  Ok.  Please give me more details.

Architect:  It should have four walls.

Contractor:  Ok.  Here is your house with four walls.  Though you didn't specify it, I thought I should also include a roof and plumbing and electrical and non-load-bearing walls.

Architect:  Awesome!  You are such a great contractor!!

(Short time passes.)

Architect:  There is a *minor* problem with the house.  I *really* wanted it to be 30 feet by 40 feet, but you built to be 10 feet by 10 feet.  Will you make it 30 feet by 40 feet?

Contractor:  Ok.  Do you have any other requests?

Architect:  No.

(Substantial time passes as the house is completely rebuilt.)

Architect:  What is taking so long?

Contractor:  The scope completely changed.  The house had to be rebuilt more-or-less from scratch.  New footers had to be poured.  The roof had to be extended (and the existing trusses had to be adjusted).  The plumbing and electrical needed complicated additions.  The plumbing and electrical runs were longer than they should have been because the junction box / water line / sewer line were all set up for a 10 feet by 10 feet house.

Architect:  Ah, I see.

(Time passes.)

Contractor:  Sir, your house is now 30 feet by 40 feet.

Architect:  Excellent!  You are the best employee, er contractor, ever!!!11!!

(Short time passes.)

Architect:  Sooo, it turns out that when you added those extra electrical lines, you didn't run 3-phase power or industrial-sized sewer lines.

Contractor:  Wow, that's a major change.

Architect:  Fix it.

Contractor:  Will do.

[ and this continues ad infinitum ].