Since the borrower's relative wrecked Hick's trailer a while back, that trailer has been sitting at the top of the BARn field. Originally, Hick was going to let the borrower junk it out to help pay back the debt. He's an old guy, though, and he and Hick reached a payoff agreement. Yet the trailer still sits.
That's from back in December. The trees are now leafed out, and grass grows in the field. Hick mows around the trailer. I'd given up asking what he was going to do with it. It's not pull-able. A tow truck brought it out here (paid by Hick) after the accident. There's still scrap metal to be had.
Tuesday morning, Hick said matter-of-factly:
"My boss from the senior apartments is coming out to get my wrecked trailer today."
"How's that? And why? What's he going to do with it? He can't just pull it away."
"I'm coming home, and we're going to load it on his trailer. I'll use the tractor to lift it up and put it on his trailer. He needs one of the axles off of it."
"Is it still good? I thought the axles were wrecked, too."
"One of them might be okay."
Well. What could possibly go wrong? Hick on a tractor, lifting a wrecked trailer onto a working trailer. I guess the other trailer can handle it. They haul cars on trailers like this. I'm sure a trailer weighs less than a car.
The question I SHOULD have asked is: "Will your boss be paying you for this trailer?" Because, you know, WE bought Hick's new trailer, which cost a few hundred dollars more than we got for the wrecked one. I don't mind if he gives it away. But if there's money coming in, that should go into the household fund that bought the new trailer. Not into Hick's pocket, as HIS money!
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