Two Green Carts

I bet the Concerta has something to do with it.

Years ago one of the two large green flatbed carts we use on the dock had some boards broken on the bed. This was fixed after a fashion by a piece of thick plywood cut to size to fit in the open space left vacant by the broken hard wood boards. However, it wasn't long after the repair that the plywood also broke, eventually to the point where it would no longer support any weight. This rendered the cart still usable, but barely so, and it was de facto relegated to backup status (for me) and "you can use that crappy cart" status for anyone who needed to borrow a flatbed for awhile.

Eventually, I fixed it after a fashion by simply putting several layers of cardboard across the hole (put down sheets with the grains at right angles to each other in successive layers and it is quite strong), but I had known for years that, given the chance, I would replace those boards with suitable hardwood planks.

A couple of days ago I notice that one of the skids (on the bottom of the stack we were sending back for reuse) had planks that were just the right thickness to serve. Later in the day I removed four boards from the skid (which was a bitch--it was hardwood, so it proved easier to sheer off the nails holding the pieces together than to pry them apart) and took them home. Last night I cut them all to the appropriate size, then sanded them down a bit, and pre-drilled holes in the ends. Today I took them all to work and finally, after all this time, fixed that cart the way it should have been fixed in the first place (and would have been if I had been in charge back when it was broken)!

OK, granted, this was above and beyond the call of duty, and it isn't like the dock was actually short of carts....

But still--