What does Grandpa (Pappy) do now?

JD Farmer · Dec 31, 2015

I am getting dangerous in my older age I guess. Sometimes I feel nothing is safe if I am around.

Yesterday I backed my Gator over one of my Grandsons Tonka trucks and demolished it.

Not the first time this has happened...one dead old hard hearing cat....and a smashed pedal tractor pull behind trailer that I had just restored and painted for him.

These toys where the same ones my son played with when he was a kid.

Bad thing about it is, not 2 minutes before, I had told him to put his Tonka's away so I wouldn't run over them tomorrow with my gooseneck trailer. Little did I know that he had just moved them off the driveway to the barn and they were hidden in my blind spot around the corner of the grainery. I had just finished filling the gator with diesel and he and my other grandson where headed out to feed calves. Neither of them alerted me to the fact they had just put the toys in my path.

So he was pretty upset when he realized what happened to his truck as we backed around the grainery.

So this morning I have him a like new Tonka truck coming on the way from that E-*** website....just exactly like the one I smashed less all the rust, lol.

How do I give him this without taking away from a lesson learned...(put your stuff away).

He is 4 yrs. old.

JD Farmer · Dec 31, 2015

Here he is playing in his usual spot a year ago.

DENNIS MIN · Dec 31, 2015

JD,

Do you have room for an outdoor "barn" his size to park "his" tractor?

Just an idea,

D.

JD Farmer · Dec 31, 2015

Son and I are thinking on doing that, just haven't had the time to build it. Good idea.

K Effective · Dec 31, 2015

The time spent waiting for shipment from the seller will be enough to learn any lesson for a four-year-old. Let him play when it arrives, he'll show you if he learned anything.

Mike M · Dec 31, 2015

Maybe install a backup camera on that Gator ? What if he had been back there picking them up ?

47fivewindow · Dec 31, 2015

Maybe he will start to learn a more important lesson, taking responsibility for our mistakes. [ I am still not good about putting things away]

MARK ROBKE · Dec 31, 2015

If little kids are around,or even possibly near by,do a WALK AROUND before you move a piece of equipment.Mark

L.Fure · Dec 31, 2015

He is only four years old after all. You weren't specific about where he needed to put his toys when he was done playing with them either. The lesson you can teach him now is; " A place for every toy, and every toy in it's place. Just like grandpa does with his tools.

Dick2 · Dec 31, 2015

I would have not gotten him a replacement; he's not going to learn if someone replaces what he misplaces. Wait 20 -30 years; he might appreciate it then.

GeneMO · Dec 31, 2015

I know of three or four families in this area that have run over and killed their kids. I am scared to death all the time that kids are around.

Gene

DENNIS MIN · Dec 31, 2015

JD,

That picture is priceless.

I din't know they still made those toys. Remember the elephant stepping in the bed of the dumptruck as advertisement? I do.

D.

notjustair · Dec 31, 2015

He did what you told him. At four years old he can't make the decision as to where would be the best place. Lesson learned for both of you. I'm glad you got another truck, those old ones are getting hard to come by.

Paul Shuler · Dec 31, 2015

The important thing for them to learn is to never stand behind grandpa. Toys can be replaced. Ran over my own dang tool box one time right where I had set it. LOl, I'm a paw paw too. Our old necks dont turn so good.

bmack95hd · Dec 31, 2015

Grandpa, I'd gladly buy him a new Tonka for his mud hole, just to see him outside playing. Next time my Grandson doesn't answer me because he is in one of his video game trances I'm gonna pop that TV with a ball peen hammer.

Blackhole49 · Dec 31, 2015

Couldn't agree more, he did exactly what he was told to do. Seems to me like "Pappy" needs to engage brain before vehicle.

David G · Dec 31, 2015

You really need to learn the lesson and back up safety, he did what you told him, if you cannot be safe do not drive.

David G · Dec 31, 2015

I made a big mistake with my boy when he was about that age and am lucky he is alive. I parked my dad's super A up by the house, I saw him sitting on it and thought it was cute. He popped it out of gear and it rolled down the hill with him on it. I was blessed that he stayed on the tractor and that it did not roll over. That was my mistake, I am the adult. The point is never trust a child when it comes to safety, lives are too precious.

retired farmer · Dec 31, 2015

Always do a 'look around' a piece of machinery before you move it, even if you just stopped for a minute. No telling what might have happened in the meantime. Learned that from years of driving a truck.

46m · Dec 31, 2015

Mostly see whats on yesterday tractors. And put puzzles together.

rrlund · Dec 31, 2015

Right now,he's not real happy with you. When the new truck gets there,you'll be his hero again. Leave it to his dad to teach him a lesson. You're his grandpa,you don't have to do anything but spoil him.

JD Farmer · Dec 31, 2015

You guys are a pathetic bunch....no wonder no one wants to start a post on here. I doubt I will be any more.
Any of you care to ***READ the original post*** before you start following the masses and run your mouths?? I guess I would need to supply drawings and very detailed explanations instead of generalizing what really went on....If you had cared to read, you would have known that both he and his cousin were setting inside the gator with me so just how the he double ell would I run over them??

What I would like to say would get me banned from this site, and that may not be a bad idea either.

I'd bet you all none of you have a child that knows as much as this one does about staying out of the way and living on a farm....this isn't your ordinary couped up city kid that doesn't have an ounce of common sense. Ever since he started walking he had enough sense to stay back at a safe distance or get behind something or someone soon as any piece got fired up.

Go ahead and flame away you bunch of blanket blank blank blank......

RLH22 · Dec 31, 2015

Hi I can idenfy with you last summer I had same problems confusion of where I was at Hard to judge distance so to make a long story short 11/15/15 I was dizzy and decided to go to emergency room I found out I was inemic and after a throut scope I have esophgas cancer stage 2 I am going to start radiation next week I kept telling myself it was my age 64 I knew better down deep get checked out !!!

cowdog · Dec 31, 2015

I agree. He is outside using his imagination getting dirty being a boy. Buy him a new one and he will rem ember that too. When he is old and grey he will drive overy something and maybe remember not to scream and holler and get excited. He will just own up to it ,raise his hand guilty, fix the situation and go on with life.

Janicholson · Dec 31, 2015

Take heart, I find nothing deserving a shade of complaint in your post. I choose to ignore the nasty because it is not worth my time to listen to drivel. I liked the post and it reminds me of all the assorted forehead addressing things I have done and had done around my by others. Besides the truck was around the corner!!! Jim

DENNIS MIN · Dec 31, 2015

Bmack,

I understand the desire to see 'em dirty and outside. That's why we've got bathtime and indoor plumbing.

D.

37chief · Dec 31, 2015

I back into big things. Like my daughters new Saturn. I couldn't believe the fender just popped back out. Backing is my biggest problem. I can't turn my neck like I could when I was younger. On my tractor I need to get out of the seat to back up. At a mowing job onetime I backed into the neighbors retaining wall, and knocked it over. That cost me 400.00. All we can do is be careful. Stan

Rich_WI · Dec 31, 2015

(quoted from post at 12:49:33 12/31/15) You guys are a pathetic bunch....no wonder no one wants to start a post on here. I doubt I will be any more.
Any of you care to ***READ the original post*** before you start following the masses and run your mouths?? I guess I would need to supply drawings and very detailed explanations instead of generalizing what really went on....If you had cared to read, you would have known that both he and his cousin were setting inside the gator with me so just how the he double ell would I run over them??

What I would like to say would get me banned from this site, and that may not be a bad idea either.

I'd bet you all none of you have a child that knows as much as this one does about staying out of the way and living on a farm....this isn't your ordinary couped up city kid that doesn't have an ounce of common sense. Ever since he started walking he had enough sense to stay back at a safe distance or get behind something or someone soon as any piece got fired up.

Go ahead and flame away you bunch of blanket blank blank blank......

I think you got the right idea, if you dont like people commenting on your story, dont post your story on a public forum.

It really is that simple...

rrlund · Dec 31, 2015

You and my wife would make a good pair. She backed out of the garage and right in to my flatbed dually. She broke her tail light and put a mark in the fiberglass under it on her pickup. Then Monday,she backed out and right in to the corner of the back bumper of her dad's widow's Prius just before she was going to leave to head home. You'd think she'd at least look to see what's back there when she walks out of the house,before she even goes in the garage.

DENNIS MIN · Dec 31, 2015

JD,

Perhaps there's a small group here that's suffered significant family loss.

Does that reduce some of the sting you feel?

Not all have a mean spirit. I've re-read the replies.

Happy new year from my home and family. (Hope that I do not come across as a jerk).

Keep posting. I loved the picture of the youngster in the puddle with his toys. Do you think it mattered to him if his boots or jacket got muddy?! It's just as boys were meant to be.

(I did lose three family members in a single horrifying tractor accident (not related to your post)), so forgive some of my tone here.

D.

37chief · Dec 31, 2015

That's not good at all. Hope you caught it in time. Stan

kub6040 · Jan 1, 2016

Oh man I had the truck,loader, and bull dozer as a kid , just wish I could still play with them. My only advise is to love them because time is very precious ,we never know when ours will be done. I have 2 grandsons and 5 granddaughters, and try hard to let them know I love them daily.

Straw Boss · Jan 1, 2016

Wow! Really? Which one of you is the 4 year old?
You just got done listing all the things you have run over since you seem to make a habit of it. Obviously some have verbalized their concern for the safety of the kids and you go off on a rant. Maybe YOU should read what you wrote and look at it from our perspective.
And blaming a 4 year old for not reading your mind as to where you may be backing up is not fair. At that age they barely have the mental reasoning to keep themselves safe let alone have to out think Grandpa and where he might be backing up without looking.
You can flame me to if you like but I think you're being a jerk. Have a Happy New Year and I mean that. Enjoy those kids and forget about this.

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