Hunters in the Snow- Question 7

The scene where Frank and Tub stop at the tavern is intended to show how careless they really are. They leave their wounded friend in the truck. It's an absurd choice that most people couldn't fathom making, but that just shows how bad of friends they really are. It is as if they didn't care at all that they shot their friend. This scene is really explained in the last line of the story. The narrator tells us that the two had taken a "different" turn a long way back. I think that this is referring to their careless mentality. They never really planned on making the correct turn to go to the hospital. Well, they may have thought they did, but they didn't care enough to make it happen.