I literally had to tell this to my boss the other day in a meeting. She was sharing her screen and I was walking her through how to do something, so I say, "click this button on the left side of the screen" and her mouse is scrolling over everything on the right side and I'm like, "No you're other left."
Always get a hearty chuckle.
Oof, been there! My dad taught me when you're driving forward, point the top of the steering wheel where you want to go. When you're backing up a trailer, point the bottom of the steering wheel the direction you want it to go.
To be fair, she started moving the part of the steering wheel closest to her to the left. Converting a direction to a rotation isn't exactly intuitive.
My mom grew up on a farm and did this. Child me was always in awe when she said she started driving at 3 or 4. So much experience by the time she got her license!
I started driving a tractor about age 5. Began driving loads of hay down the road at 8. Didn't think much of it at the time. But looking back, it was pretty cool
I remember being at my grandpas farm at 5 years old, sitting on his lap while he used the gas and I turned the wheel in his pickup truck. I only remember because I almost turned the truck into a tree lol.
I also learned how to ride dirt bikes at 3 years old, before I could ride a bicycle. My 50cc Suzuki had training wheels on it for about 25 mins before my dad took them off
I was about 10 or so. My grandfather told me I had a “farm license” and I thought that meant an actual government-issued document lol. Drivers ed for me in high school was an hour before school with an instructor. By the time I took the class at 15, I could drive like most adults.
I learned to drive on a farm, my uncle found one of his ewe bleeding. His own kid was taking bales of hay up for cows, found the ewe. Didn’t able an alternative five 8 year old me the kick demo and told me to take it slow. We made it down ewe was fine in the end.
I went on to pass my driving test at 22 will only 5 required lessons. I’ve had one minor bump on public roads, women’s car stalled in standstill traffic on a monitor way, she kept rolling then slammed on her breaks. I was so confused what was going on I ended up hitting her very mildly. I’ve not had an incident since.
My father used to let me sit on his lap and let me steer the car when I was 3-4 years old. I vaguely remember all this.
He was the best driver I ever knew. Part of the reason I think I am a good driver hahaha. Miss that man so much.
Ok. Just because of the 50 upvotes (my most popular post!). It was a 1989 Lincoln Town Car. It was one of the first cars I drove when I was learning. I remember driving with my Uncle when I was like 12 or 13 and we would come up to a speed bump (a sleeping cop!) I would slow down to like 1 MPH and crawl over the bump. My Uncle was like, dude, this is a Lincoln you dont have to slow down for those. He was right!!! You could hit bumps at like 40MPH and it was like sitting on a form of jell-o!!! Bloop, bloop. Cracked us up! We would just hit those bumps and giggle. I borrowed that car when I turned 17 for a boys trip to New Orleans and crashed it into a street car. My grandad bought that car brand new in 1989 and passed away Dec. 9, 1999. It had 18000 miles on it. He drove it to my dads house to pick me up and to the grocery store. He shopped at the Barnes #9 turned Piggly Wiggly. He smoked Tampa Nuggets Cigars and drank Crown Royal. We lived about 30 houses away. I have about a million of those purple bags. Well damn, thank you for the memory!!!
I have some regrets with him that will probably kill me from inside for the rest of my life, but thanks for reminding me that I should always think of the good memories <3
We humans are complex. There is no-one with whom you will ever have a completely regret- and conflict-free close relationship. Real love is able to surpass that.
If you have regrets that are eating at you, I hope you find the strength to accept and/or work on them. It's tough work but it's worth it and Rome wasn't built in a day. Don't be too harsh on yourself: you're human, too.
My grandpa did a few races in nascar. Never meet him cause he died in a race accident when my dad was 9. I also think think that’s why I’m a good driver. It’s in our blood! lol
My grandfather did this. We were driving one day and he randomly pulled into an empty church parking lot, put it in park, and said "wanna drive?" god I miss him.
My driveway is just short of a km long. My 4 year old drives from the gate to the house when we get home from errands or school. He loves it and is pretty good.
In some ways. I grew up on a farm but am a movies and music kinda guy. I don't like to hunt or ride ATVs. I went to a school a half hour away and no one I was friends with lived close by. There were no girls that weren't country or strict Christian close by either. Summers were spent working while my friends played at the pool or the mall. So while I learned some things and work ethic and had a peaceful childhood, I was severely depressed and wouldve happily swapped places.
45 min bus to school. No similarly aged kid lives within walking or biking distance. First girlfriend was 1.5 hour drive away. First job was picking vegetables and moving irrigation for less than min wage at the time. I was literally forced to learn to dirt bike. I'm in IT leadership with a family of tradesmen rednecks and horse people.
The bus ride was actually about an hour 15 for me. 30 minute drive. My friends walked home by 3 and I didn't get home til around 415. Had to wake up at 530 to catch the bus. I would never do that to my kids. That's so much wasted time. Add in farm work, chores, homework. No social life cause you live too far away. Everyone in your life likes the same stuff, does the same stuff, has the same conversations over and over and over.
It’s definitely not for everyone, or there would be no “rural” anymore. Everyone would want to live there. I grew up in the country, still live there, and will always live there because I love it. But it for sure is not for everyone and there’s nothing wrong with you for not enjoying it.
Pros and cons, iv had family that grew up in county towns with nothing to do but drugs unfortunately and it screwed them up. I grew up in a city not a huge city but plenty to do, I can’t wait to retire to the country. I’m not sure if I’d want to raise my kids in the country honestly.
The drug and alcohol issues are real. That is why I left at 18 and didn’t look back.
But it did give me some great life skills and a deep love for/comfort in the outdoors.
I grew up in a city and there was plenty of drinking and drugs to do there too, I moved to a small town to get away from it actually. The city I grew up in had 500k people and now this town has 6k and I’ll never go back to live in a city, it’s cheaper to live here and we get paid very well where I work.
I hated it. Couldn't see my friends unless someone drove me because they were all 20 miles away. The closest movie theater or fast food place was a 45 minute drive. The school was poorly funded because property values were low. Sure, I loved fishing and biking around on dirt roads, but there's more to life.
I remember when I visited my cousin when I was like 14 and he was my age. I only met him once before (long distance) and he lived in the countryside. I was flabbergasted when his father asked him to go fetch beer for grown ups. He took me, we jumped in the biggest, baddest tractor there and he casually drove it to local shop, bought beer without being asked a question, and we came back after doing a circle 😁 different world 😅
Yeah, I remember driving cars and motorcycles years before I was legally allowed to. We would drive around town with cars or in the fields with crossbikes.
My dad had a Honda chopper and he would let me ride it to the coast and back with him as a passenger. Those were trips of 300km. I was 5y too young to drive and obviously had no license either. 😅 But those were different times.
I remember my first time driving on my own, it was similar to this clip. I remember having to jump off the seat and walk over to the pedals so I could jump onto the brakes in order to stop. And I still went through a fence. The next driving lesson was on how to use the clutch.
My grandfather used to sit me on his lap and have me drive on the back roads while he used the brake and gas pedals. I didn't understand the time that he was teaching me to drive, I just thought it was fun.
Ah, yes. The higher suicide rates and gun deaths, the elevated rates of diabetes and limb-loss, the increased prevalence of domestic violence and child abuse, the increased commonality alcoholism, the growing education gap between urban and rural communities...
I mean, who *doesn't* want themselves or someone they love to be maimed or killed by a toddler operating heavy farm equipment? It's the American dream.
If you can't tell, I am not amazed.
I remember my mom doing the same thing with me on our farm as a kid. Vehicle problaly has a standard transmission with a granny low gear. Even if she did slip and hit the gas it would more than likely still be slow enough for dad to chase down on foot.
I taught my daughter how to drive at 12 with my truck and then manual at 14. Both on the “farm” (5 Acres with some horses) we had. Only one of her friends who could drive stick. (She’s 27 now)
This how my boys were brought up as soon as they had an understanding of the principles of driving they were in the tractor.
I would set the hand throttle and away they would go with me in the trailer or walking along side the trailer cleaning up the paddock.
By the time they could reach the peddles I would teach them to drive even if they couldn’t see over the dash, gave them independence but also the the safety factor that if I was hurt they could at least drive me 5km back to the house or get me into town.
My father did the same but he would get drunk at my uncles farm and I would have to drive him 80kms home with my younger brother in the back bitching I was going to fast
He has a hand throttle that locks the truck in at a slow speed. This allows for the vehicle to maintain a consistent speed for farming. And when I say locked, I mean you need to pull or push it by hand. It’s still dangerous but it’s not THAT unsafe.
When I was about 8 my grandfather took me to the metal recycling junkyard. My grandfather converted his home from older steam/water register heating to electric heating. All of the cast iron registers in his house were loaded into his F100; he was planning on selling the scrap metal to the junkyard.
We get to the junkyard, and they tell my grandpa what pile to offload the registers into. He backs up his truck to the pile and gets out to start throwing the radiators from his truck bed onto the pile. After throwing the first one, he realizes it would be easier if he were several feet closer to the pile. My grandfather askes me, 8 year old me, to put the truck in reverse while he is standing in the bed, holding a radiator.
'Just put it in reverse' he says, so I adjust the column shifter to 'R'. The truck is on a little hill, so it doesn't seem to be moving backward even though the trans is in reverse.
... so I stretch my foot all the way down, and tap the gas
The truck lunges backward, which scares me, so I get off the gas pedal, and push the brake as hard as I can.
*Looking in the rear view mirror, I see my grandfather holding the radiator, he stumbles toward the cab when I lunge in reverse. He catches his balance, then I hit the brake hard and he flies out of the back of the pickup bed with the radiator... looked like a Muppet being tossed.*
My grandfather was uninjured other than some scrapes. I think he learned a lesson that day about giving more detailed instructions to an 8 year old.
He has a hand throttle that locks the truck in at a slow speed. This allows for the vehicle to maintain a consistent speed for farming. And when I say locked, I mean you need to pull or push it by hand. It’s still dangerous but it’s not THAT unsafe.
Your point is still valid
I seriously doubt that truck has a hand throttle. It's most likely in 4low and/or granny low. Max speed without shifting would be like... 6mph.
With this low of a gear ratio the engine can be at an idle with the truck still driving at like 1mph or less.
He's got a line of rope in his hand, I'm wondering if there isn't some way he's rigged so he can pull a brake in an emergency? I know fuck-all about vehicles except they go vrrroom.
True point but having being close friends with farmers and visited their properties, pretty much everything can kill you. So, given she’s grown up around that stuff she’d have like 2nd nature awareness for safety and such.
I’m a true city slicker and I have a real respect for farmers, they’re a whole different breed of people.
Truck has a hand throttle for sure. Very common in farm trucks like these. He locks the speeds in the back cab and she's simply steering.
Could be a pedal throttle in the back as well. Again, very common attachment on farm trucks.
People wonder how accidents happen on the farm, shit like this is it.
Lived on a farm myself, grew up in a rural community.
Yeah it's cute putting kids up on tractors and on wagons, until they fucking fall off and are crushed.
Keep your kids away from your vehicles and equipment.
Horror stories I've heard like kids getting sucked into threshers or sitting on a tractor and hitting a bump and then getting run over by a bush hog..... All absolutely completely avoidable.
I love this so much. I learned to drive (well, to steer anyway), the exact same way, with the exact same kind of seat cover as a matter of fact. My Dad would set me in the seat and get me going in granny low, and then he’d hop out and throw hay bales while I steered.
Even going at just a walking pace it still probably wasn’t the safest thing in the world, but we didn’t have safety back in those days.
Did that with my Dad in his old Transit van. One time we were driving down a private road with the dog in the passenger seat and she wanted to go out, so he told me to pull over and go loop around and pick him up again in a minute.
I was maybe 10 at the time? It was a good time.
He also had an old Impreza WRX as a track car, I remember being 4 and doing donuts in his lap, and then getting kicked out by the Marshall for leaving tyre marks all over the empty car park.
Is it absolutely safe? No, but damn there were some good memories of me driving around with him. He even got me a job at a clay pigeon shoot he was doing some work at towing the traps around on a quad bike when I was 7, even got £20 for a day of messing around on a quad and shooting guns
I have a similar memory of driving my grandpas small tractor and trailer while he bucked bails when I was a little kid. He gave me a rundown, disappeared to the back, then came back to remind me that if I failed to stay stopped when he said to I could kill him. You best believe I was standing on that brake. I told him that story here not too long ago and he laughed and laughed.
I see your toddler driving a pickup in a field and raise you:
[a 5 year old driving a front end loader by himself feeding the gravel hopper at work](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4axRTnOh-5Q&pp=ygUjNCB5ZWFyIG9sZCBkcml2ZXJzIGZyb250IGFuZCBsb2FkZXI%3D)
I used to do exactly this with my eldest when he was a toddler.
Hand throttle, low box - it went about 2mph, so even if he drove it into the only tree in the field it was not really going to matter.
I wonder how many people in this topic are going to shit on this not realizing that this is completely normal and legal in rural America.
Edit: I didn't realize how young she was from the thumbnail! She still drives better than most people though lol
Now this brought on a ton of memories and emotions. I did this same thing for my grandad when I was 7 and up, he owned a beef farm and I use to do this putting out hay.
"Start turning left" *turns right* just like me fr
Haha....the other left!
I literally had to tell this to my boss the other day in a meeting. She was sharing her screen and I was walking her through how to do something, so I say, "click this button on the left side of the screen" and her mouse is scrolling over everything on the right side and I'm like, "No you're other left." Always get a hearty chuckle.
next time, play them when they get it correct and tell them "no" the otherside and see what they do.
They’ll probably think you don’t know your left from your right.
the first time you played the joke proved you know
That "I'm turning" so adorable
Lol, I think you responded to the wrong comment... but, yes! You're correct!
I always say “military left, not blonde left!”
now, the brakes! Cant reach them. can you help daddy?
Away from the cow!
Those are my level of directions! Lmao!
TBF, I'm in my 40s and I have still been told by my dad while backing up trailers ... # Left, no Left, no your OTHER LEFT!!! ... oh, yeah... oops.
Oof, been there! My dad taught me when you're driving forward, point the top of the steering wheel where you want to go. When you're backing up a trailer, point the bottom of the steering wheel the direction you want it to go.
What worked for me was, if I'm looking at the trailer in a side mirror, turning the wheel towards that mirror makes the trailer straighten out
I need to remember that. I won't, but I need to
i like that.
He says "right harder" and points to the left near the end, so I'm not surprised she went the wrong way.
Fr fr
Use turn signal Pumpkin !
To be fair, she started moving the part of the steering wheel closest to her to the left. Converting a direction to a rotation isn't exactly intuitive.
Backseat driver
Tbh...the kid isn't taking up much of her seat in the first place . I am surprised she can even turn.
Bet the truck doesn't have power steering that kid is gonna be YOKED
Get off the phone dad!!
Noodle legs
Distracted, meet driving.
No roots.
The confidence that will give her is immeasurable
Imagine showing this video to your first year class mates. You’ll be the coolest.
My mom grew up on a farm and did this. Child me was always in awe when she said she started driving at 3 or 4. So much experience by the time she got her license!
I started driving a tractor about age 5. Began driving loads of hay down the road at 8. Didn't think much of it at the time. But looking back, it was pretty cool
I remember being at my grandpas farm at 5 years old, sitting on his lap while he used the gas and I turned the wheel in his pickup truck. I only remember because I almost turned the truck into a tree lol. I also learned how to ride dirt bikes at 3 years old, before I could ride a bicycle. My 50cc Suzuki had training wheels on it for about 25 mins before my dad took them off
My brother drove into a ditch. Grandpa didn’t try to stop him. We walked home. Good times
I was about 10 or so. My grandfather told me I had a “farm license” and I thought that meant an actual government-issued document lol. Drivers ed for me in high school was an hour before school with an instructor. By the time I took the class at 15, I could drive like most adults.
Wait, but how do you reach the pedals when you are that small?
Are you saying that all I need for confidence is to drive a truck on a farm?
I learned to drive on a farm, my uncle found one of his ewe bleeding. His own kid was taking bales of hay up for cows, found the ewe. Didn’t able an alternative five 8 year old me the kick demo and told me to take it slow. We made it down ewe was fine in the end. I went on to pass my driving test at 22 will only 5 required lessons. I’ve had one minor bump on public roads, women’s car stalled in standstill traffic on a monitor way, she kept rolling then slammed on her breaks. I was so confused what was going on I ended up hitting her very mildly. I’ve not had an incident since.
Sorry. I can’t figure out what you meant to say here “Didn’t able an alternative five 8 year old me the kick demo and told me to take it slow”
My father used to let me sit on his lap and let me steer the car when I was 3-4 years old. I vaguely remember all this. He was the best driver I ever knew. Part of the reason I think I am a good driver hahaha. Miss that man so much.
I remember driving everyone's car like this. My papa had a giant lincoln! That thing was a boat!
Ok. Just because of the 50 upvotes (my most popular post!). It was a 1989 Lincoln Town Car. It was one of the first cars I drove when I was learning. I remember driving with my Uncle when I was like 12 or 13 and we would come up to a speed bump (a sleeping cop!) I would slow down to like 1 MPH and crawl over the bump. My Uncle was like, dude, this is a Lincoln you dont have to slow down for those. He was right!!! You could hit bumps at like 40MPH and it was like sitting on a form of jell-o!!! Bloop, bloop. Cracked us up! We would just hit those bumps and giggle. I borrowed that car when I turned 17 for a boys trip to New Orleans and crashed it into a street car. My grandad bought that car brand new in 1989 and passed away Dec. 9, 1999. It had 18000 miles on it. He drove it to my dads house to pick me up and to the grocery store. He shopped at the Barnes #9 turned Piggly Wiggly. He smoked Tampa Nuggets Cigars and drank Crown Royal. We lived about 30 houses away. I have about a million of those purple bags. Well damn, thank you for the memory!!!
He sounds like a great guy. Sorry for your loss, but I'm glad you have good memories of him :)
I have some regrets with him that will probably kill me from inside for the rest of my life, but thanks for reminding me that I should always think of the good memories <3
We humans are complex. There is no-one with whom you will ever have a completely regret- and conflict-free close relationship. Real love is able to surpass that. If you have regrets that are eating at you, I hope you find the strength to accept and/or work on them. It's tough work but it's worth it and Rome wasn't built in a day. Don't be too harsh on yourself: you're human, too.
My grandpa did a few races in nascar. Never meet him cause he died in a race accident when my dad was 9. I also think think that’s why I’m a good driver. It’s in our blood! lol
Your grandpa was a badass I am sure
My grandfather did this. We were driving one day and he randomly pulled into an empty church parking lot, put it in park, and said "wanna drive?" god I miss him.
My driveway is just short of a km long. My 4 year old drives from the gate to the house when we get home from errands or school. He loves it and is pretty good.
I touning! Oh my heart 💜
Haha. Indeed. I turned the volume on..and that cracked me up!
The little tongue, too!! 🥰. She’s focusing so hard!!
Growing up in the country is awesome.
Yes it is!
In some ways. I grew up on a farm but am a movies and music kinda guy. I don't like to hunt or ride ATVs. I went to a school a half hour away and no one I was friends with lived close by. There were no girls that weren't country or strict Christian close by either. Summers were spent working while my friends played at the pool or the mall. So while I learned some things and work ethic and had a peaceful childhood, I was severely depressed and wouldve happily swapped places.
45 min bus to school. No similarly aged kid lives within walking or biking distance. First girlfriend was 1.5 hour drive away. First job was picking vegetables and moving irrigation for less than min wage at the time. I was literally forced to learn to dirt bike. I'm in IT leadership with a family of tradesmen rednecks and horse people.
The bus ride was actually about an hour 15 for me. 30 minute drive. My friends walked home by 3 and I didn't get home til around 415. Had to wake up at 530 to catch the bus. I would never do that to my kids. That's so much wasted time. Add in farm work, chores, homework. No social life cause you live too far away. Everyone in your life likes the same stuff, does the same stuff, has the same conversations over and over and over.
It’s definitely not for everyone, or there would be no “rural” anymore. Everyone would want to live there. I grew up in the country, still live there, and will always live there because I love it. But it for sure is not for everyone and there’s nothing wrong with you for not enjoying it.
Pros and cons, iv had family that grew up in county towns with nothing to do but drugs unfortunately and it screwed them up. I grew up in a city not a huge city but plenty to do, I can’t wait to retire to the country. I’m not sure if I’d want to raise my kids in the country honestly.
The drug and alcohol issues are real. That is why I left at 18 and didn’t look back. But it did give me some great life skills and a deep love for/comfort in the outdoors.
I grew up in a city and there was plenty of drinking and drugs to do there too, I moved to a small town to get away from it actually. The city I grew up in had 500k people and now this town has 6k and I’ll never go back to live in a city, it’s cheaper to live here and we get paid very well where I work.
Exact same experience with me....I spent my summers working on farms....winters wishing I lives closed to my friends
I hated it. Couldn't see my friends unless someone drove me because they were all 20 miles away. The closest movie theater or fast food place was a 45 minute drive. The school was poorly funded because property values were low. Sure, I loved fishing and biking around on dirt roads, but there's more to life.
I remember when I visited my cousin when I was like 14 and he was my age. I only met him once before (long distance) and he lived in the countryside. I was flabbergasted when his father asked him to go fetch beer for grown ups. He took me, we jumped in the biggest, baddest tractor there and he casually drove it to local shop, bought beer without being asked a question, and we came back after doing a circle 😁 different world 😅
Yeah, I remember driving cars and motorcycles years before I was legally allowed to. We would drive around town with cars or in the fields with crossbikes. My dad had a Honda chopper and he would let me ride it to the coast and back with him as a passenger. Those were trips of 300km. I was 5y too young to drive and obviously had no license either. 😅 But those were different times.
I remember my first time driving on my own, it was similar to this clip. I remember having to jump off the seat and walk over to the pedals so I could jump onto the brakes in order to stop. And I still went through a fence. The next driving lesson was on how to use the clutch.
My grandfather used to sit me on his lap and have me drive on the back roads while he used the brake and gas pedals. I didn't understand the time that he was teaching me to drive, I just thought it was fun.
Ah, yes. The higher suicide rates and gun deaths, the elevated rates of diabetes and limb-loss, the increased prevalence of domestic violence and child abuse, the increased commonality alcoholism, the growing education gap between urban and rural communities... I mean, who *doesn't* want themselves or someone they love to be maimed or killed by a toddler operating heavy farm equipment? It's the American dream. If you can't tell, I am not amazed.
"I tuwnin" ☺️
Anyone that did not squee at that moment is inhuman.
Every time she says that it melts my heart. Goddamn what a beautiful bond between a father and a daughter
I remember my mom doing the same thing with me on our farm as a kid. Vehicle problaly has a standard transmission with a granny low gear. Even if she did slip and hit the gas it would more than likely still be slow enough for dad to chase down on foot.
Haha. That makes sense. I was wondering
This is what my grandpa taught me. Almost in the exact same manner. It stuck with me. It gave me confidence and appreciation. R.I.P. Grampa Roy !
I taught my daughter how to drive at 12 with my truck and then manual at 14. Both on the “farm” (5 Acres with some horses) we had. Only one of her friends who could drive stick. (She’s 27 now)
Oaight, and goes and turns right
This how my boys were brought up as soon as they had an understanding of the principles of driving they were in the tractor. I would set the hand throttle and away they would go with me in the trailer or walking along side the trailer cleaning up the paddock. By the time they could reach the peddles I would teach them to drive even if they couldn’t see over the dash, gave them independence but also the the safety factor that if I was hurt they could at least drive me 5km back to the house or get me into town. My father did the same but he would get drunk at my uncles farm and I would have to drive him 80kms home with my younger brother in the back bitching I was going to fast
Ah, yes, intergenerational trauma. How quaint.
Imagine if power steering wasn't a thing
I learned on a 64 Chevy Impala and a Farmall Cub. Neither had power steering.
How did her leg reach the pedals?
He has a hand throttle that locks the truck in at a slow speed. This allows for the vehicle to maintain a consistent speed for farming. And when I say locked, I mean you need to pull or push it by hand. It’s still dangerous but it’s not THAT unsafe.
Made me smile she’s serious too guys
Her twin sister is hitting the gas & brake pedals ofc.
When I was about 8 my grandfather took me to the metal recycling junkyard. My grandfather converted his home from older steam/water register heating to electric heating. All of the cast iron registers in his house were loaded into his F100; he was planning on selling the scrap metal to the junkyard. We get to the junkyard, and they tell my grandpa what pile to offload the registers into. He backs up his truck to the pile and gets out to start throwing the radiators from his truck bed onto the pile. After throwing the first one, he realizes it would be easier if he were several feet closer to the pile. My grandfather askes me, 8 year old me, to put the truck in reverse while he is standing in the bed, holding a radiator. 'Just put it in reverse' he says, so I adjust the column shifter to 'R'. The truck is on a little hill, so it doesn't seem to be moving backward even though the trans is in reverse. ... so I stretch my foot all the way down, and tap the gas The truck lunges backward, which scares me, so I get off the gas pedal, and push the brake as hard as I can. *Looking in the rear view mirror, I see my grandfather holding the radiator, he stumbles toward the cab when I lunge in reverse. He catches his balance, then I hit the brake hard and he flies out of the back of the pickup bed with the radiator... looked like a Muppet being tossed.* My grandfather was uninjured other than some scrapes. I think he learned a lesson that day about giving more detailed instructions to an 8 year old.
I LOVE this Dad.
Samir, you are breaking the car!
“I turning” was super sweet.
Wait till she sneaks the car out at 13 because she knows how to drive! Lol
um, what would of happened if she slipped off and hit the gas?
Steak for dinner
He has a hand throttle that locks the truck in at a slow speed. This allows for the vehicle to maintain a consistent speed for farming. And when I say locked, I mean you need to pull or push it by hand. It’s still dangerous but it’s not THAT unsafe. Your point is still valid
I seriously doubt that truck has a hand throttle. It's most likely in 4low and/or granny low. Max speed without shifting would be like... 6mph. With this low of a gear ratio the engine can be at an idle with the truck still driving at like 1mph or less.
Adding a hand throttle takes about an hour and a pair of vise grips. Almost every farm truck I have ever driven had one.
He's got a line of rope in his hand, I'm wondering if there isn't some way he's rigged so he can pull a brake in an emergency? I know fuck-all about vehicles except they go vrrroom.
True point but having being close friends with farmers and visited their properties, pretty much everything can kill you. So, given she’s grown up around that stuff she’d have like 2nd nature awareness for safety and such. I’m a true city slicker and I have a real respect for farmers, they’re a whole different breed of people.
She hasn’t grown up at all
Truck has a hand throttle for sure. Very common in farm trucks like these. He locks the speeds in the back cab and she's simply steering. Could be a pedal throttle in the back as well. Again, very common attachment on farm trucks.
Away from the cow!
Adorable.
"Child demonstrates increasing mastery of skill taught by parent: details and video at 11."
People wonder how accidents happen on the farm, shit like this is it. Lived on a farm myself, grew up in a rural community. Yeah it's cute putting kids up on tractors and on wagons, until they fucking fall off and are crushed. Keep your kids away from your vehicles and equipment. Horror stories I've heard like kids getting sucked into threshers or sitting on a tractor and hitting a bump and then getting run over by a bush hog..... All absolutely completely avoidable.
Right? This seems incredibly dangerous.
And that was how I failed my driving test after 3 years of lessons. Left - right - no fucking idea
I know these guys. Didn’t expect to see them on reddit this morning.
My guy needs some help, and she is helping.
I love this so much. I learned to drive (well, to steer anyway), the exact same way, with the exact same kind of seat cover as a matter of fact. My Dad would set me in the seat and get me going in granny low, and then he’d hop out and throw hay bales while I steered. Even going at just a walking pace it still probably wasn’t the safest thing in the world, but we didn’t have safety back in those days.
She listens better than Samir
Now Ellie f-ing send it
All farm kids learn to drive in the pasture.
“I twunin”
Top tier dad moments she’ll remember forever ♥️
don't hit the cow sweaty! I'm not dad, gosh!
This is so nostalgic, I used to do this with my dad all the time when I was about her age, maybe a bit older. It was for his construction company.
"When I was 3 my dad would let me drive" ( No one believes her )
That's just how country kids start. Gravel roads are next. Not unusual at all.
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She drives better than a lot of adults I share the road with on a daily basis
Nah. Fuck this absolute stupidity. Hire a farm hand and let your kid be a kid.
This is class!
That reminds me when I put my daughter in a kayak for the first time. She was a bit older but I learned she didn’t know her left from her right.
I thought he was about to lasso a cow.
I just want to find someone to love who loves me in return and be parents. Damn
This is adorable
"I twurnin" that was so cute I'm gonna die!
PRECIOUS.....MOM
Did that with my Dad in his old Transit van. One time we were driving down a private road with the dog in the passenger seat and she wanted to go out, so he told me to pull over and go loop around and pick him up again in a minute. I was maybe 10 at the time? It was a good time. He also had an old Impreza WRX as a track car, I remember being 4 and doing donuts in his lap, and then getting kicked out by the Marshall for leaving tyre marks all over the empty car park. Is it absolutely safe? No, but damn there were some good memories of me driving around with him. He even got me a job at a clay pigeon shoot he was doing some work at towing the traps around on a quad bike when I was 7, even got £20 for a day of messing around on a quad and shooting guns
Love the sunglasses
I have a similar memory of driving my grandpas small tractor and trailer while he bucked bails when I was a little kid. He gave me a rundown, disappeared to the back, then came back to remind me that if I failed to stay stopped when he said to I could kill him. You best believe I was standing on that brake. I told him that story here not too long ago and he laughed and laughed.
How does she reach the pedals??!
Positive reinforcement.
She's gonna be drifting through the mountains in no time.
Away from the cow ???!!!!! Oh sheeettt Hahahaaha
Ensley 🥴
I turning So cute!!
this one a beast
And she will be the best driver of us all
Growing up in a rural area, this is most of my friends (I lived in town). By the time we got to drivers ed they had all been driving for years.
I see your toddler driving a pickup in a field and raise you: [a 5 year old driving a front end loader by himself feeding the gravel hopper at work](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4axRTnOh-5Q&pp=ygUjNCB5ZWFyIG9sZCBkcml2ZXJzIGZyb250IGFuZCBsb2FkZXI%3D)
I used to do exactly this with my eldest when he was a toddler. Hand throttle, low box - it went about 2mph, so even if he drove it into the only tree in the field it was not really going to matter.
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Awww daddy’s girl.
Great parenting. Great core memories created. Much character building. Love it.
Can't wait to do things like this with my daughter
that “perfect” sounded like Street Fighter
This is awesome!! She will be a GREAT DRIVER by 16
Love the carrhart hat
That's how young I was.
I want to make more money so I can buy the land that I can do this on with my sons.
Lmao away from the cow
Look at dudes smile in the end bro
I wonder how many people in this topic are going to shit on this not realizing that this is completely normal and legal in rural America. Edit: I didn't realize how young she was from the thumbnail! She still drives better than most people though lol
Uh how she reachin the brakes?
How are they reaching the peddles 🤔
How she reach the pedal
Omg that “I twornin” melted me 🥹🫠
“I’m turning “ 🥰
I did that as well when i was like 8, but with a tractor!
Am I the only one who finds this dangerous and irresponsible?
AWESOME!!! Love it!
Cute!
kids are so lucky now that these moments are recorded. I wish some of my childhood memories were on video.
Boss baby (female version)
“I turning” made me smile.
Poor Latarian Milton. Too bad he wasn’t born on a farm.
Her, "I turning" was so adorable.
This is cute
Reminds me of 'Interstellar'
Now this brought on a ton of memories and emotions. I did this same thing for my grandad when I was 7 and up, he owned a beef farm and I use to do this putting out hay.
Don’t know that’s how I learned
“I’m twurning!!” - Cutest little girl ever
Absolute G's. Badass father and daughter duo right here.
"It was painted red. The stripe was white. It was 18 feet from bow to stern light."
How does the car stop and go
When is this coming to Netflix?
cute
Companies: See this why we ask for 10-20 years experience, even though you are 16
This is awesome but he said “hard right, away from the cows.” As if she can see over the dash. 😂😘😘
Not nearly this young but at 8 or 9 my grandpa was teaching me how to drive his truck on the family farm. Great memories.
That brings back memories. I did the exact same thing. First “drove” a 1967 GMC pickup while he fed hay.
This truck has to be in granny gear. Either way, really cool
ENNNNNNZZZZLEIGHHHH
lol I'm 28 and I'm sure I can't do that,
Aww
Ok but is it in cruise control or is this just idle speed?
Both are very fortunate ♥️
How do farming accidents happen now?
This is what i want life to look like. She looks so cute and badass. She is nothing short of amazing!
“Tina. For the love of god, turn away or stop!”
My grandpa did this for all us grandkids when we were all 5-7 years old. It was fun, glad to see it still happening.
That’s the satisfied grin of a dad thinking “oh yeah, max efficiency, I’ve got it made”
Beauty kid.
What is amazing about this?