I love telling stories!
Grandpa stories.....
My Grandpa worked for the County Roads Dept. in a ....... very rural area. In the early summer, when we got to stay at "Granpa and Gramma's", he was mostly running a road grader ("Maintainer" was what he called it). If you went "Ridin the Maintainer", that meant getting up before the sun, packing a lunchbox, and cruising throuh the countryside for 8 hours on an enormous (to a 6-10 y.o. kid!) piece of heavy equipment, stopping for only for 2 coffee breaks and a 1/2 hour lunch ...... funny how these breaks always happened when we saw a coyote, "sport model crow" or a prairie dog town...... Granpa kept his .22 rifle in one of my Uncle Mike's (Not that "Uncle Mike's" company- my uncle, Mike Russell, invented and manufactured these things) "Outa-Site" gun racks in the cab of the road grader.... what better way to spend a day when you were a kid?
I learned many important things on those rides, including how not to pee into the wind......