stocky
Well-known member
There have been a few threads lately where people have offered their stories and they have gotten alot of attention and there have been some great experiences told. I thought it would be interesting to hear any stories of experiences you have had with non-farmers, or city people that have been funny or interesting. One story I have is:
When I was younger, we had an old Ford pickup and my Dad was cutting wood and didn't park far enough from the tree and fell the tree across the cab. It smashed the cab and part of the sides of the bed. We took the tractor front end loader and stuck the bale spear in the busted windows and pulled the cab up enough to get in and out and we put a bale spike in the back and used it for a feed truck and a work truck. One day I had pulled off the highway on a steep bank and was fixing fence and I was hot and sweaty and dirty, and might have even had some blood showing from the barbed wire, when a car was coming down the road real fast and all of a sudden slammed on the brakes and slid off the side of the road and a guy jumped out and ran toward me and was yelling " Are you alright? Are you ok?" I looked at him and said, "Yes, I am fine, how are you"? He looked at me and said "No, I mean are you hurt?" I said, "Not any more than usual" He said "Was anyone else hurt?" I looked puzzled and said "There isn't anyone else here, but I dont understand what you are talking about" He acted like I was stupid and said, "I mean in the wreck---in the truck wreck---are you ok?" I started laughing and told him it wasn't a truck wreck, just an old farm truck with me out fixing fence. Then I thanked him for stopping and checking and he walked away shaking his head like I was an idiot. I am not saying he was wrong about me being an idiot, I just thought it was awfully funny that he thought my pride and joy farm truck was the result of a wreck.
When I was younger, we had an old Ford pickup and my Dad was cutting wood and didn't park far enough from the tree and fell the tree across the cab. It smashed the cab and part of the sides of the bed. We took the tractor front end loader and stuck the bale spear in the busted windows and pulled the cab up enough to get in and out and we put a bale spike in the back and used it for a feed truck and a work truck. One day I had pulled off the highway on a steep bank and was fixing fence and I was hot and sweaty and dirty, and might have even had some blood showing from the barbed wire, when a car was coming down the road real fast and all of a sudden slammed on the brakes and slid off the side of the road and a guy jumped out and ran toward me and was yelling " Are you alright? Are you ok?" I looked at him and said, "Yes, I am fine, how are you"? He looked at me and said "No, I mean are you hurt?" I said, "Not any more than usual" He said "Was anyone else hurt?" I looked puzzled and said "There isn't anyone else here, but I dont understand what you are talking about" He acted like I was stupid and said, "I mean in the wreck---in the truck wreck---are you ok?" I started laughing and told him it wasn't a truck wreck, just an old farm truck with me out fixing fence. Then I thanked him for stopping and checking and he walked away shaking his head like I was an idiot. I am not saying he was wrong about me being an idiot, I just thought it was awfully funny that he thought my pride and joy farm truck was the result of a wreck.