Nuts!

Bob dropped by for a haircut today.  He's been retired from the trucking business for a few years now.   But has many stories that he can still recall.  Here's an earlier one ( Hey! That's My Wife! )  And the following incident is just another day in the life of a 'Trucker.'

He told me him and his partner Jim were getting ready to haul a load of axles up north to Hay River.  At best loading was always a struggle.  But this particular time it became frustrating.  Jim was fighting with an old rusty nut that he was trying to screw onto a bolt, to help hold down the load.  It was taking forever to get this load secured. 

Bob came by with a brand new nut in his hand and suggested that Jim use it.  And being the stubborn individual that Jim is, he kept insisting that the old nut was going to be fine. 

At this point Bob was thinking that they would never get out of the loading yard.  With his anger at about the boiling point, he threw the nut as far as he could into the bush nearby. 

They spent the next hour looking for the nut.