ShadetreeRet
Well-known Member
Not exactly a rant, but---My next door neighbor was working a patch of ground across the road from me this morning, so I stepped over to say howdy. It's funny, we live next door, (well, you know how a country "next door" is, about two hundred yards or so), but we don't get to speak to each other but every few months. He goes by the house sometimes half dozen time a day or more but always in his truck or one of his tractors. (I found out he has four, all John Deeres), I didn't recognize the one he was using this morning, so I mentioned it, said he has had it two or three years, can't remember the series but he said it will pull two sixteens with ease. Anyway, he said, "Turned it upside down the other day." I said, "What happened?" "Well,I was working on the creek bank and got into a bad spot and it rolled over into the creek." I asked, "Did you jump off?" "Yeah, it threw me off." "Turned one over on its side a few years ago, threw me off into a brush pile." I thought, this fool turned one over a few years ago, and now he's done it again, and he is still walking! Of course this same man struck a match t a brush pile about six feet high and twenty feet diameter a few years ago and went off and left it burning---Less than 50ft. from an old log tobacco barn. Set another on fire close to another barn and almost lost his horse, did lose the barn. About twenty five years ago, I got up one night about one o'clock in the morning to use the bathroom and noticed fire behind his house. He had been burning brush and left it, it had eaten through the grass and set a pile of firewood ablaze. I had to go wake him up on that one. I am sure we have all known someone like this, but you just can't help but wonder, how in the heck do they get by without more serious consequences? Okay, I'm done now.