Since Jaxon has retired, I can tell this and the company won't fire him. Back three years ago when we had the first Fall Gathering here in the Augusta, GA area there was some repair work needed on the cabins and since Jaxon and Deb came up a few days early he volunteered to help me.
The first thing we worked on was nailing the loose siding on the cabin. This being Jaxon's first time doing this type of manual labor I had to explain how it worked and he started on one end of the side we were working on and I was on the other. He was nailing away and I looked down towards him and he would reach in his nail pouch, pull out a nail and either chunk it over his shoulder or nail it in.
Being more experienced than he I hollered at him and asked, "Jaxon! What in the world are you doing throwing those nails away?"
He looked at me and explained, "When I pull a nail out of my pouch, about half of them have the head on the wrong end."
I couldn't believe it. I shook my head and exasperatedly said, "Deb told me I'd have to watch you because you wouldn't know what you're doing and boy she was right. You numb skull. Those nails ain't defective! Those nails you are chunkin' away are for the other side of the cabin!"
Dee
