The story starts in early summer while Sam is working construction
The typical day for Sam included waking up at 5 am to make it to work. Sam had some pretty simple tasks at work and never really was given too much responsibility. His typical day consisted of picking up trash at construction sites, lawn work, and building fences. However, when Sam arrived to work on Monday at 6 am sharp, he was tasked with picking up construction material and hauling them to the right construction site. Although Frank, Sam’s boss, didn’t know Sam had never towed a large trailer before. Sam had no experience pulling trailers. Sam decided it was best to keep that to himself until the job was completed. Sam didn’t know that he would be driving through 5 o’clock traffic with a hefty and wide load. Sam decided it was for the best to jump headfirst into a new experience and trusted that he had the skills necessary to complete the job safely. So he began his drive to pick up the required materials. Nothing special happened on the way, thankfully. Instead, it gave Sam time to get used to pulling a large trailer. When Sam finally arrived and began loading the materials onto the trailer, he noticed that they started to load the trailer unevenly. However, just like before, Sam didn’t say anything because he didn’t want to insult the people loading the material. Once the couple tons of materials were finally loaded and ready the go. Sam began the trek back with the poorly loaded trailer. As soon as Sam left the parking lot, he instantly noticed how different it was to pull a trailer at max capacity. Everything became less responsive, the breaks, the gas pedal, even the steering wheel. This worried Sam quite a bit because he knew he would be merging into heavy traffic that could come from 60 MPH to a dead stop in seconds.
When Sam finally came to the highway, his blood was pumping, and he knew the pressure was on. Given that any mistake he made could injure even kill someone if something went wrong. Keeping that in mind, he merged onto the highway and began the trip to the construction site. To Sam’s surprise, he made it just a couple of miles from the construction site with no problems. Until finally, he heard screeching and saw sparks flying. The back end of the trailer had broken a weld. Luckily, he was close to the site, and people could come with the correct equipment to get the trailer the rest of the way. However, Sam was still worried because he would have to call and tell his boss. He knew instantly he would have to tell his boss he had no experience pulling a trailer. To Sam’s surprise, his boss knew he had no experience but just trusted him to be careful and use common sense. Even though Sam had no confidence in himself, his boss had confidence in him. From that day forward, Sam accepted more responsibility. Remember that sometimes you just have to throw yourself into something new and trust yourself enough to figure out new things.