Things you miss from your childhood.

[arewethereyet]

I miss my old pedal tractor.  It was a beauty.  John Deere green with a yellow seat.  

I never played with it.  It was a chunk of lead that wouldn't budge over the gravel and grass on the farm.  It just sat in the carport, then the shed, then somewhere else.  Seriously, what were they thinking? 

But those things go for $500 or more now.  I could buy another guitar.

I worked in the factory that made those for a time in 1974.  The Ertl company.  We made everything from little John Deere tractors that were a couple inches in length to the pedal tractors.  It's the job that taught me that I didn't want to work on an assembly line.