Bob’s constant missing hitting the nail with the hammer and hitting his finger instead was the final nail in the coffin of his working construction. “I’m afraid you’re not cut out for this sort of job, Bob,” his boss told him, and Bob pointed a bandaged finger at him and replied, “You know, I think you may have hit the nail on the head. I don’t think construction is right for me, after all.”
This post is part of the Tuesday Use It In A Sentence prompt, “nail”:
Jeanne Owens, author 