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Re: Younger people driving and other things that have changed!!!


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Posted by j hikemper on August 23, 2014 at 21:25:03 from (50.102.71.25):

In Reply to: Younger people driving and other things that have changed!!! posted by JD Seller on August 23, 2014 at 20:19:20:

jd seller , we were raised in parallel worlds ,,, the county fair , bicycle trips, parents not knowing our whereabouts for hours kinda , I guess , I recall my dad, looking for my brother and I who were hired out to put up fence for one neighbor,another neighbor came by needing hay help ,sincefence was nearly done we hired in with him ,,Dad found us there and was sorta sore with Curtis , because our own hay needed hauled,and it was gonna rain , So Curtis helped with our hay , //////at age 15 I regularly would drive dads 69 ford truk thru gravel back roads to town get supplies needed for the farm .10 mile round trip . ///// as 4 or 5 yr old I played in the strawberry shed while my mother crated berries with the strawberry farmers wife ..I remember Jerrys pikup rattling across the field road toward us ,, but Mom said, I DONT SEE a DRIVER???.the Farmers wife said , Oh,DEAR,, Its RIcKY DRIVIN !,,.he was about 8 yrs old,,the truck shuttered to a stop ,Ricky got Out and eagerly said to his mother ,, Mom ,, DADDY Said for me to tell You All we gotta Move to the Other Side of Field as soon as you wrap up here , BUT NOW, I need To Take This And This And That ,and everything on the truk and go back rite away,, I knew I would end up walking across the field so I asked to go along with Ricky ,, No PROBLEM ,,we climbed in,RICKY hit the starter button on the dash, and started the truk in gear , and away we went , I asked him how hard the truck was to drive , because his feet were not able to reach the pedals , ricky Said Its Easy,, alls ya gotta do is pull this T handle thing and it speeds the motor ..anmd when we get where were going turn off the key ,, and if it wont stop when we need to I yank back this big black lever, ( Hand Brake )...ricky drowned in a lake 20 yrs ago .. Their berry farm was a big operation involving over 50 migrant sutherners Families mixed in withal the neighborhood kids pikin and getting the job done , they would end up pikin cherries in Michigan before going home to Ky , ten , Carolinas , and serveral came from Florida we all got along great, Too.. No Fights ever,, they lived along the creek near the farm house ,,, Jerry got a couple guys jobs building I-64 for the summer ,while their parents and siblings went north ...


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