poll, how many of you are guilty of this?

Yep. I've ran down the street to the cluster mailbox at the entrance to the community I live in to fetch mail. I have also used ove of the tractors to haul cans and trash out to the roadside with a garden trailer. I've enen been known to joyride around my community.. especially after a small repair that needs a 'test drive.. or after a wash and wax. So far, I get just as many waves on my IH cub as my fords, or the JD-B... Heck.. I even get waves on the newer Nh 7610s

Soundguy

Up till a month ago, I would get a call from one of the 3 brothers that own and operate the store, the same crew that I sell garden grown "HOT PEPPERS". Well this "TOWEL HEAD" rides a bicycle from their apartment within walking distance from my family's LUTHERN CHURCH, that is, where a lot of ancestors are planted. Some of course were of the CATHOLIC FAITH, but I lost track where they are. I think that the GIANT SUPermarket had most of them removed, somehow.

Back to the INDIANS. Well, they refuse my offer to accept one of my portable air bottles, empty freon cans. Well, the TOWEL HEAD's bicycle gets a flat tire, from time to time and he calls me to fetch him on my TRAK-TOR. He likes riding on the DRAWBAR. I say OK. So, I drive the 9N almost to town and pick-him up and bring him to his store before 6AM. He opens the store and starts up the GETTY pumps . At 7:AM the CHURCHMEN and LADIES start gett'n gas, coffee, lunch meats, and an occasional LOCAL SUNDAY PAPER.

Well the local twsp. policeman stopped me on the way in one morning to pick up my business associate. Worse thing that happened was the store had left over NEWSPAPERS. THE INDIAN insisted that I buy the left-over papers.

I put the N away in the shed for LOOOONNNNGGGG DRY STORAGE.

John,PA Ex- piano player for the 1st. Baptist Church. Gettysburg,PA

(BTW, did the storekeeper insist you violate the law driving your tractor illegally? Did he call the cops on you? Or, perhaps, ... you should be responsible for your own decisions to break the law?) I drive my un-registered junk ranch truck on the back-country road to get it gassed up at the local general store. If ever a new deputy from the big city that doesn't know me decides to enforce the law,...then I'll have to take the responsibility. (And I'm glad when the newest citizens of our country aren't disappointed when I don't insist that somehow their citizenship is lesser than my own.) My 2 cents.

MM made this one in 1940 to get to town rain or shine..Church or get the paper!!

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(From a greeting card I purchased just because I can identify with the msg. written by Marty Becker, D.V.M.)-gahorn