Bought some 1X4's today at Lowe's for my small layout expansion benchwork. I noticed the tags on the ends:
Now, does anyone find this hilarious besides me? Using some of the most expensive labor on earth - German, this was grown, harvested, milled, cut, shipped across an ocean to me, in the Gulf South, where billions of board feet of lumber were cut and shipped all over the country and the world, and countless logging railroads prospered, and where thousands of square miles of timber still grow...well, you get my point.
We're just running out the clock.