A funny story on me!

[Glenda]

Only I could do something like this! ! My husband's uncle recently died and we bought his old Dixon Zero turn lawn mower. It took my husband a little while to get it up and running because it had sit in his uncle's garage for over two years. Well, he did finally get it running. I jumped on it and used it out in the big part of the yard to get used to how it turns. Well I thought I was catching on really well so I moved to the yard in the front and back of the house. Remember about two years ago we put white vinyl fence all around our farm. I was doing so well and all of a sudden I went over a bump in the yard and got frustrated (the stupid mower doesn't have any brakes, you just pull back on the handles!) and ran right through the fence. Thank goodness it was vinyl, it just popped the three board. If it had been wooden they would have broke in half. So my husband just about fell over laughing. He got me started again and I was mowing out by the barn. Now remember this is in the same day. As most of you know with a Zero turn you can get so much closer to things. It's supposed to save on weed-eating, which I hate!
I had made one run around the big tractor's in the shed that I thought well I could even get closer. Well low and behold I got closer all right. I got so close I literally ran over the back wheel of the brush hog, popped a big hole in the lawn mower's back wheel, even popped the wheel completely off. Nevertheless this stopped me. Eddie spent all day that Saturday trying to find a wheel and get it mounted. Last week the front wheel fell off the the wheel went flat again. I don't know if I like this stupid mower of not. I think I'll go back to my John Deere mower. It's safer for me and everything else. LOL. I did mow with the Zero turn yesterday and did fine. I just go real slow when I get real close to anything. Another thing you don't do is if you have to get off to move a rock or a stick or something, you don't grab the handle bars to sit back down, it will go around in a circle with you. What a sight that probably had to be!

I thought you would all enjoy this story. I really do some stupid things sometime. Oh well, you have to laugh in life and at myself the majority of the time! !

 

[geebee]

Glenda,

I hope you don't mind but my sides hurt from laughing so hard. This type of stuff is the reason I stay off the riding mower. I would either kill my fence, run off into the pool or fall over like that tricycle guy on Laugh-In.

Please take care but continue to have fun.

 

[Bina]

That is farm humour for sure......!
I stay away from our lawn tractor because I would be very likely to end up in the river on it.

 

[Mary]

Glenda,
We should be sisters.
No one will let me on their riding lawn mower.
The one and only time I used one (back in the summer of 74) my husband left me riding it while he went to do errands. I didn't know how to turn it off (later learned you take your foot off the clutch and it will die) so rode it all over the neighborhood trying to use up the gas in its tank. I rode it to his folks house (lived in the same town at the time) and managed to take out a rose bush and hit a post, but it still did nothing to stop it. Bob found me riding it almost an hour and a half later and saved me.
Oh, fogot to mention I was 9 +months pregnant at the time, and all the jostling finally got my contractions started that night! I was two weeks overdue at the time!
Anyway . . . can I come visit you so you will let me take a turn on your tractor?

 

[hensylee]

Glenda, didn't you do something odd with the tractor not long ago? We are beginning to think you are driving the Mack truck on the mountain!

 

[EVELYN]

Glenda

There But For The Grace Of God, Go I......i Just Love My Johnny D., Though And Wouldn't Trade It For The World.

I Laughed Throughout Your Whole Posting.

Evelyn

 

[BDMc]

Almost as good as a video!

Almost as good as a video!

Dear Glenda The Good, I do wish your husband had caught that on video! Your story telling is excellent though! Mary, I loved your's too! Thanks, Brian

 

[psalmist]

That is just laugh out loud funny. By the way I am in springfield (1 hour from joplin) and have a video cam. Next time you mow send a mess. I will tape it and send it to everyone!