The Garage Door Incident

One truck rack, one garage door, and zero hard feelings—just another day at Union Concrete in the early years.

The workload increased at a steady pace. 

George had hired a carpenter named Walter “Bud” Liddle. Bud was quickly given a foreman’s job to share the load with George. 

Walter tells the story of a rainy-day project that went “a foul.” 

Faced with not being able to work on site, George told Walter to meet at his house. We had been waiting to build a rack on his truck. Walter showed up and they proceeded to nail together a rack sufficient to hold concrete chutes and ladders. They finished the task and while enjoying a beer George received a call about a hole flooding. 

George told Walter to go, and he would follow. 

At the jobsite, Walter looks up and the new rack is all but destroyed. It seems they never checked the height of George’s garage door. 

Walter said that there was never another word spoken of it between them. 

Continued next week…