My uncle is the manager of the Bazine, Kansas Co-op and usually needs summer help during the busiest time of the year, harvest.
“Hey uncle Bryan do you think you will need any summer help for harvest this year,” I asked. “I could really use the money.”
“We most certainly …show more content…
For the remainder of the day only five more trucks come. Today will be harder I tell myself and maybe longer, but after two weeks it will be worth it. I arrive and can already hear the loud truck engines as one is leaving the scales. Once I clock in, I go to the office where the dust is so thick I can feel it crawling up my nose causing me to sneeze. All of a sudden I see a whole line of trucks start driving down the street and line up so they can be dumped. Bryan grabs the walkie talkie and says “Everyone get prepared, we got 6 trucks to the North and 4 to the South”.
Bryan goes out to help direct traffic and I start doing my job by weighing the truck, taking a sample of wheat, testing the wheat and repeating the process. I get a little overwhelmed and do not realize that one of the trucks already tested and sent on its way was not weighed when it was full. I start to panic and immediately find Bryan “I am sorry I thought I weighed this truck, but I did not and now he is back on empty and it is too late,” I say, barely getting the words out.
“Oh no! I better call the guy he is driving for and see what he wants to do about this,” said