Magicman
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M4900 Utility Special 4WD e/w FEL & 1530 John Deere "Traveling Man"
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I can relate to that one completely. Dakota did that and got is collar caught on the rack. When I yelled at him he backed out taking the whole bottom tray of dishes with him. That scared him even more so he took off running for the great room, dishes and all.
When I was a teenager, I spent the summer after finishing high school with my paternal grandparents, whom I called "Bigmama" and "Bigdaddy", nicknames forged by the eldest cousin in our generation long before I was born. I did all sorts of odd jobs that summer with my retired grandfather ranging from painting a metal roof (cool seal) to remodeling a bathroom in my mother's house. Bigdaddy was a cabinet maker and carpenter by trade before he retired, but generally speaking, was a jack of all trades and master of none. One day, we were putting new blades on a mower out in his little shop, and I heard my grandmother calling "ROLAND! ROLAND!" (Bigdaddy's actual name). Not knowing how urgent it might be, and knowing he wore hearing aids and claimed to be hard of hearing, I assumed he didn't hear her and I told him "I hear Bigmama calling you." He said "I know" and just kept right on with the task at hand, never offering to get up to see what it was she wanted. I asked if I should go see what it was she wanted, and his exact words were "She'll let me know at dinner, so no, let's finish this job." Somehow, I don't think he really needed the hearing aids. He had his selective hearing tuned in just right. It was hard to contain myself later at the dinner table when she asked if he could hear her and why he didn't answer. I'm glad she didn't call out for me nor ask if I heard her calling for him. I do miss my Bigdaddy, and like to think that I have become him in many ways. The missus can confirm my selective hearing is getting tuned in pretty good. I've even started wearing striped overalls like him, simply because he wore them. When he passed away, unanimous decision by our generation was that he should be buried wearing a new pair of DeeCee overalls, not a suit which he only wore when Lois (our grandmother) made him wear when they went to church. Otherwise, EVERY day, he wore the DeeCee striped overalls and a white short-sleeve shirt, and that's the only thing any of us cousins can remember seeing him in.