Post by myersfarm on May 1, 2007 16:19:57 GMT -5
My older brother and me would ride the old road wagon with the horses 2 miles to a store for ice cream.... right down the black top......everybody would just zoom on by us...one day a car just would not pass and we were going at top speed of 3 miles a hour..... well we came up to a place we could pull over at 3 miles hour so we pulled over and this man got out of car and walked up to us.....we were maybe 12 and 15 this man was 60....and we thought we had done something wrong...this man asked if he could just ride along with us in the wagon...and being GOOD KIDS we asked did he want to drive......this 60 year old man looked like he lost 30 years when we give him the reins.....we were only1 mile from home so off we when at 3 miles a hour with his wife driving along behind us We talked and i could not make sense out of what he was saying almost like a kid on Christmas day with a great present in hand not wanting to lay it down to open another present..... when we drove in the yard....the car pulled in behind us and Dad came out to see ...WHAT HIS KIDS HAD DONE..... the man climbed down from the wagon and offer us $20 for the wagon ride....$20 dollar back in 1968 was alot..both of us told him he didn't owe us a thing.....then my Dad was there asking what was wrong...the man said there was nothing wrong and told Dad he had just got a early Christmas present...then he offer Dad the $20 and he turned it down also.. the man told Dad he was raising the right kind of MEN ....Dad told him to come back anytime for a ride.......when i think of things i still see that old man with a smile on his face with the dirty old reins in he's hands.....and it making him 30 years younger............hope some body has a wagon with a team when i get to 60.....tj 
You folks on this board seem to have exclusive rights to my tear ducts, and choose to keep them well lubricated... 
