Ah man...what's next...Kid and 450D

Best one was when he crashed into my new truck that was parked out in the middle of a field with a loaded trailer of hay, just sittin there minding it's own business. Yep, just crashed that old for NAA right into my drivers side door.

I looked at him and said, "That's how old people learn". He lit up a smoke and said, "I'd kick your a$$ but....geuss your right" and laughed.

Before long he will be bailing you out of a mess.

Your post brought back a stream of memories of stuff my brothers and I tore up as kids(and on into young adulthood too).....hay rakes run through fence lines, stumps mowed into, dents in this and that, cattle run through fences, windsheilds broken out of pickups from guns flying off gunracks when hitting deep ruts while "chasing stuff", broken springs, transfer-cases, and frames on pickups, and more tractors and pickups stuck in snowdrifts and mudholes in our first 15 or so years than twelve normal men would get stuck in a lifetime.

But through it all- even though we'd always get a firm talking-to, dad and grandad always just apparantly gritted their teeth and moved on. And now, as adults running the place, because of our "learning experiences", my brother and I know what NOT to do and what is ok to do, and when, and how...and how to fix things when they DO go wrong as things sometimes do no matter what the best intentions are. Pardon the bad grammar, but there ain't no better school than the school of life!