Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Neighborly?

This story is about Jack and Mike. Both are next-door neighbors and Jack owns a small trailer that he rarely uses and that is stored under a deck, in the backyard. The other day, Mike asked Jack if he could borrow the trailer. Jack enthusiastically acquiesced and, at Mike convenience, proceeded to pull it out from where it was parked.

First, the heavy rampgate that closes the back had to be put in back place; the rather awkward operation requires two people and quite a bit of good, coordinated efforts, made a little bit more trickier that time because Jack had recently hurt his hand and wasn't quite as nimble as was required; finally, pulling the trailer out and into the driveway was rather easy because it was almost downhill all the way. 

A day later, Mike returned the trailer, but instead of making sure it would be replaced into its storage location with its rampgate dismounted, he just left it in the driveway, without even bothering to let Jack know. Well, that's often how things work in real life.  When he saw this, Jack sighed deeply, ask his wife to help him and both repeated in reverse the operations required for storing the vehicle. It was just a lot harder, because Jack's wife isn't as strong as Mike and the trailer had to be pushed uphill...

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