Re: People with NO respect!

Posted by rhudson on August 10, 2003 at 17:50:44 from (12.43.219.254):

In Reply to: People with NO respect! posted by Jason on August 10, 2003 at 13:52:43:

well you are right of course. but can i get you to look at it another way. are you advertising your event as for the whole family? when maybe its not? i don't go to car shows, for this very reason. its no fun for the kids. and as far as i'm concerned, i'm not going to do anything with my family if its not fun/educational for the kids. we have a few tractor shows/pull around here, i don't let the kids play on any of the equipment without permission. so we don't spend much time at the area where the tractors shine like my mother's silverware (the kind for showin not using). its a lot more fun to look at a rust bucket up close than anything from afar. we all know that people disagree about how to raise kids, even my wife and i disagree about that. so you KNOW you're going to have problems with the general public. especially when they don't take your hobby as seriously as you do. heck, i love tractors, and i don't take tractors as seriously as you do. i admit i don't have a single shiny tractor, even the ones i make my living with. so, you're got to keep the kids away. the best way that comes to mind is to have lots of education, interesting, and fun things for them to do, or put up an electric fence, or Plexiglas box, or just put a age limit on admittance. Maybe I’m looking at this wrong.. But I think a tractor show IS for the kids, to show them what it use to be like, that includes the sounds and smells. If its not for them , tell me just who is it for?
I don’t know I just know my kids would rather see a rusty JD B pulling a hay ride so that’s where we spend our time. I want to make it clear that I appreciate the work of all the people that bring exhibits. But I also want to be clear that my family enjoys seeing a working H cutting wood, a smoking SMD threshing grain, its more real. I don’t mind my son’s hands getting dirty on the steering wheel of a tractor if he wants the chance (maybe of a lifetime) of sitting on a odd or old tractor (with adult supervision of course). If there is anything a kid could break on a tractor, I don’t know about it.
The other problem, well you’re right there also, we have too many people and lawyers trying to hit the litigation lotto. I’m just saying we’re failing if we don’t make it fun for the kids.

Thanks for letting me speak and remember, it just may be my blood sugar out of kilter.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Re: People with NO respect! kyhayman 18:32:13 08/10/03 (0)
• Re: Re: People with NO respect! Jason 18:13:35 08/10/03 (6)
  • Re: Re: Re: People with NO respect! Lil-Farmer 18:41:20 08/10/03 (5)
    • Re: Re: Re: Re: People with NO respect! rhud, why didn't i think 18:58:14 08/10/03 (4)
      • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: People with NO respect! Lil-Farmer 19:14:35 08/10/03 (3)
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