Village Voices - We don't write papers, we build scrapbooks

Everybody messes up from time to time.

One time when I was a kid working on the farm, Dad decided to sell some grain. The guy came out with a semi and parked it under the auger and started loading. The auger was only a six inch auger so loading the truck took a long time. After getting everything set and the grain flowing, the driver sat inside the truck and fell asleep. He must have been really tired because by the time he woke up, the truck had overflowed. It wasn’t a small mess, it was a huge mess. You couldn’t even see the back tires of the semi trailer they were so buried i...