Posted by LenNH on December 05, 2007 at 16:45:55 from (75.69.99.42):
In Reply to: 1938 F-20 road gears posted by Scott Rukke on December 05, 2007 at 07:40:25:
As to wifely problems, I sometimes get the "what would you want that for?" question about stuff I have that doesn't mean anything to anyone else, like the old tractor brochures I picked up at dealers' places when I was growing up in the 40s. I love 'em, but I don't expect anybody else to. I just tell her, "Well, we could just as well eat off paper plates and drink out of jelly glasses as use those nice china plates and wine glasses with the gold rims, right?" Usually ends the discussion, although I don't expect she'd ever understand what I see in all that stuff about those rusty, greasy old machines. But then I don't get excited about dishes, pillows for the couch, quilts, and things like that. The Romans had a saying for that--"there's no accounting for taste." Of course, they didn't say it in English, as far as I know. Got me a tractor last summer, 'cause there's a field we cut a coupla times every summer, and now we're both happy because we don't have to pay somebody else to do it. Of course, the tractor cost enough to have somebody to cut the field for 10 years, but we won't talk about that. She can see me out there playing farmer, and that makes her happy. As to a set of steel wheels, well, I don't think you'll want to use them on the lawn, but you can always point out the greatly increased value of an antique tractor that has those now-rare original wheels.
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