When I was a kid, we had the fortune of farming a mile and a half from a grain elevator. I was hauling grain to the elevator with an old farm truck when I was 12. If there were ever any law officers around, they must have looked the other way.
My dad had a cousin who farmed a few miles from us. He was also an alcoholic and had bottles stashed in every building on the farm. The cousin had a son, "Bob". One spring when Bob was 17 and I was 13, he and I were planting corn with a horse drawn, 2 row lister that had the tongue cut off to pull behind a tractor. Between Bob and I, one of us had to drive the tractor and the other ride the lister to raise and lower it on the ends. One afternoon, we got into a bottle of booze Bob's dad had hidden in the machine shed, and then went out and planted corn for the rest of the afternoon.
Next morning, we were scared to go out into the field and see what kind of rows we'd made the previous afternoon. Turned out they were as straight as if we'd strung every one with a string.
Kids did grow up fast in those days. Most kids left the nest right after graduating from high school. The girls got married and the boys struck out on their own. In fact, if a boy was still living at home after age 19 or 20, the neighbors wondered what was wrong.
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