One last (try tah keep it short) story 'cuz I can't peck ah long one out when I'm laughin'. I made the Mistake of signin' on with "Dead Head Diamond" back in the mid '70s for about ah year and that waz way too long. They sent me into one of the Massey-Ferguson plantz in the Motor City to load ah bunch of 9' long tractor drive axlez destination Des Moines. Ah one day run even back when it waz 55 everywhere rite? lol...But they had to be tarped so I complied begrudgingly and every one of them thingz had cosmoline sprayed all over it.. In the 1st 50 milez I destroyed $500 worth of tarpz and when I got to the Massey plant they stacked 'um out in a staging area in ah ragging a$$ rainin' snowin' blizzard and I'm thinkin' WTF jes happened, AAARRRGGGHHHH. Having no way to repair 'bout 20 basket ball size holez in them 2 18'X24'z I ditched 'um and replaced 'um with 2 shelter halves 'cuz the manual for O.O.s said I WILL HAVE TWO TARPZ but the manual never said what size them tarpz had to be. 6 months later they dispatched me into this PVC Manufacturing place in Toledo for ah load of plastic 8" drain pipe but the entire forward end of that load had to be tarped 'cuz the exhaust blowin' back on that pipe contaminated it so the glue wouldn't stick. Between my burstz of laughter I told the dock guyz my tarpz wouldn't cover the whole front and when I took 'um out and laid 'um on the dock all hell broke loose. I missed the load, Diamond re-wrote the O.O. Manual WITH measurementz for them 2 tarpz and last I heard in the mid '80s they still made every O.O. produce them tarpz at every once ah year inspection in Racine, Wi., And Jer'z iz still laughin'
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