Posted by ScottyHOMEy on January 07, 2010 at 14:27:44 from (70.105.230.91):
In Reply to: Price of tea in China posted by MY EYES! MY EYES! on January 07, 2010 at 12:19:53:
I was small growin' up, and got to be eight or nine and impatient to be big enough to reach the clutch so I could start drivin' the tractors.
Oh, I'd watched every move Grandpa made, startin' up the H. Had the drill down just pat, I thought. I'd sit on that tractor in the shed and practice for hours, pretendin' to start it up, slip it into reverse to back it out . . . For all that I didn't really understand just what it was the clutch actually did.
One day, I got a little ahead of myself. I knew enough to make sure the ignition button was in so that it wouldn't actually start, and then pushed the starter button. It was in gear. Of course it lurched forward and bumped the nose end right up against the old safe where Grandpa kept his dynamite.
Well, I didn't have an idea in this world about that clutch or anything else at that point and didn't dare to put it in reverse.
There was no hidin' it, and it's probably the first time in my life I decided on my own that I had to man up. Knowin' no more than I did about things, I got it in my head that the electricity from the starter might be enough to set the dynamite off, and I sure didn't want Grandpa blowin' himself to flinders, so I told him what I'd done, and why I didn't try to back it away.
He just roared laughin', and the next day he sat on the left axle housing and taught me how to drive the very same BN that sits in my garage today.
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