One potato two potato

 July 10 from tjs

In breakbulk days USL put a C2 vessel into Searsport, Maine to load a cargo of bagged potatoes for Europe - it was a post war era. The longshoremen there rigged up a chute to slide the bags down into the hold. During a break the workers, to amuse themselves, began sliding down the chute and the clicker counter counted each as a bag. Upon outturn, the receiving country advised there was a shortage of twenty bags and no one knew why, And that's the way it was!