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Another ‘go back in time’ moment

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Well, I did again folks. I had another one of those ‘what was I thinking’ events that caused me to want to go back in time and ‘do it over’. I had picked up another backhaul of empty bottles going to a company in Allentown, PA. This time it would be a live unload, meaning I’d wait while they unloaded the product. Before I left Elmira, NY, I sealed the trailer with a metal seal. I remember thinking as I did that, I would need to use my hammer to break it when I needed to open the doors. I arrived at the customer and was quickly given a door assignment, and proceeded to set myself up to back in. I got out and went to open the doors and noticed there was already some dude on a forklift anxiously awaiting my arrival and ready to get to work, which is a good thing. As I stood at the trailer doors I realized I had forgotten my hammer to break the seal. I thought about it for a second or two, and for some reason I was too lazy to walk back to the truck for my hammer, besides, this guy was wai...