Flying Beer Cans!

Watch Out... Flying Trash! The worst thing about owning or being behind a pick up truck without a lid on the bed is the trash that comes flying out of it! It seems like the bed of a truck is the dumping site for beer cans, fast food bags, cigarette boxes, etc... True story, I was driving Mats truck to see my G'nny in Lewisville from Bonham when I just happened to look in my review mirror to see a crushed beer can fly out of the bed and hit the windshield of a State Trooper. Of course he pulls me over, and I already knew why, asked me to step out of the truck and explain all the beer cans in the bed of the truck. So I tell him its my, at that time, boyfriend truck and the bed of the truck is like a trash can to him and his friends. As I'm sitting here explaining this the officer is picking up every cup in the truck and sniffing each drink for alcohol. Then he noticed the bullets sitting in one of the cup holders and begins asking if a gun is present in the vehicle. Well duh... If there's bullets there's a gun! So I explain to him where the gun is and he decides since its not my truck nor my gun he decides to confiscate the bullets and let me leave with a warning. As I explain all this to my grandmother, G'nny, she grabs her broom and we go down to the dumpster and sweep what looks to be about 3 trash bags full of beers cans and fast food bags into the dumpster. It was a lesson well learned for Mat and I both. Now I own a truck and refuse to allow any trash in the bed of it. As I loaded my truck this morning I made sure everything in the bed of it was heavy enough not to fly out of it. When I got to Dallas and took a peek in the bed I noticed my lid to my plastic tub is missing. Crap! Some poor person had to avoid a lid flying at there windshield. I never considered the lid flying out. Looks like it's time to invest in a lid for the bed!