My story doesn't have anything to do with danger on the tractor.
Dad took me over to another farm about 3 miles from home where he had lent out the tractor, and dropped me off to bring it home. All back roads, everything was going fine, until I came upon a section of fence with the nicest crop of blackberries I had ever seen. Stopped to pick some, thinking about a cobbler. Of course, I first had to figure out what to pick them into. Finally settled on Dad's hard hat, that I was wearing. Had to remove the webbing, of course, and then wipe it out as best I could with my shirt tail. Then picked it full of berries, and home I went, with a big smile on my face.
Soon learned that a smile is just a frown turned upside down. I was about 20 minutes overdue, and dad was getting it but good from mom, who had never been enthusiastic about farming in general or me driving the tractor in particular (I think I was 11 or 12). In the process of the largely one sided discussion, it came out that she didn't even know I ever drove it on the road, as he had (wisely) neglected to mention our present mission to her. As well as a lot of other un-supervised work I did out at the barn, like manure scraping, which included pushing the manure off a ramp and into a spreader waiting below ("For heavens sake, he could have backed right off the end of that ramp and been killed!" I wisely kept my own counsel during this time, but I was thinking "Yeah, and I could step off the curb in front of a bus in town, but I'm smart enough not to do that, too."
Don't recall whether we ever got a blackberry cobbler, but the primary fare around there for awhile was "hot tongue and cold shoulder".
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