Re: Stupid Dad

Posted by The Dukester on August 30, 2004 at 07:00:44 from (65.89.19.17):

In Reply to: Stupid Dad posted by stan on August 29, 2004 at 22:56:59:

I'll tell you Stan, you did the right thing by minding your own business and putting up this post instead of trying to be "Dudley Do Right". I've let certain children and other people ride with me on tractors and other machinery....and once my younger brother got his foot pinched pretty bad in the cultivator linkage on a Farmall H, but he survived it without serious injury and he and I learned to watch out for possible danger areas we hadn't been aware of.
But, when the time came for my brothers to operate the tractor and machines, they had a good knowledge of safe tractor operation and respect for the equipment they were asked to operate. This knowledge came mostly from the experience of riding on tractors with me and other older operators and observing how they were run safely and successfully. I personally know you don't learn how to drive a tractor by watching from the edge of the field or from some book or from verbal instructions before you mount up to run it yourself.
But, you are right in your estimation that the little girl was in a dangerous situation and she shouldn't have been left to hold herself on safely or probably even be on the thing if the situation was as you described. I've felt the same way when I've seen small children and babies being held by their mother or father or someone while they were running a riding lawn mower or mower/tractor, it just made my blood curdle to think that adult or older person was that careless and ignorant. It makes my blood curdle when I see kids drunk and swaked out on drugs and crap too, looking like the street urchins their parents have let them become.
On the other hand, if you ever had stopped by, stopped me on the tractor and told me I was stupid for allowing someone to ride with me on the tractor you would possibly have got punched in the nose....now, or past times. Calling someone stupid can get you a bloody nose or worse, you gotta use a little more tact than that, especially around farmers who don't like meddling people who look like "city types' telling them anything. I don't know however if you're a "city type" or a farmer, would I know if you approached me on my tractor to tell me I was stupid?
Of course lawyers can be hired when you get punched in the nose and the legal system seems to just "hunger" for this type of molehill to build into a mountain. But that is stupid and doesn't fix anything except help the ripoff legal profession and bring about more government intervention into our freedoms. JMHO, you understand.

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