Growing up on a small farm I was driving a tractor and truck in the fields at 9. Tractor was a AC WD and the truck was an 50 Ford F4 flat bed so I had to learn how to double clutch from the start. I would drive them from the field to the barn (even on the roads) with loads of hay to be unloaded at the barn and pick up an empty and head back. This was my job at the time. Working ground soon followed then it was pulling wagon loads of ear corn from the field to the crib to unload. This was normal to me.
In the summer I would go with my uncle down in Kentucky to work the Tobacco fields for weeks at a time. My job was to drive. At the end of a hot day us boys would take a dip in the Green river witch was not to far from the barn. Mom and dad knew ware I was and did not really worry about me.
When I turned 16 I took drivers ed in high school and it didn't take the teacher long to figure out that I already knew how to drive so I did a lot of riding and not driving. When I went to take the test at the Ohio State Patrol post I was sitting in my Nova ( 250 3 on the tree manual steering & brakes) waiting for the instructor to come out and get in. He got in looked at me and smiled (I had worked for him before) and said this will be easy! He said you passed! We walked back in and the lady behind the desk said that was quick! I already know he can drive, Give him his license and she did. I guess 7 years of on the job training payed off!
I took vo-ag and FFA in school and it was not unusual for us to come to school with a gun (22 shorts) and go to a farm to do rat killing (I don't think I would try that now) and this was normal for us to do, We were trusted. How times have changed.
Of my 3 boys the youngest was the easiest to get his license, He would help work on the farm, The older 2 wanted no part of it so it was me ,him and dad and he learned quick. When he took his drivers test at the DMV I talked with the instructor that would be testing him and he asked how's his driving? I said I can go to sleep with him driving, Really? Yes sir I can. Nuff said. They left and came back from the test he gave me the thumbs up and said I see what you mean.
We grew up in a different time and we matured at a younger age, We knew the difference between right and wrong and how to be respectfull to our elders and to others. If we didn't you knew what would happen...The BELT!!!! We had fear but todays kids don't, You touch one now they call the cops and report you for child abuse and they know at an early age they have the upper hand and how to exploit it to there advantage. I have seen it many times and don't want to get started on it. So nuff said. Todays kids maybe smarter than we were at the same age but also dumber, They just don't have command cense like we did or the maturity. Not saying there all bad there are a lot of good ones but boy it makes you wonder. Bandit
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