The cliff-hanger reference reminds me of when I quit making hay, about 10 years ago- butt clinching the seat, waiting for the next failure, and thinking how much more money I could be making at my day job, in my air conditioned office.
About 35 years ago, when I was in my 20's, I was laying under the hay rake in 100 degree weather, sweating like a pig, trying to cobble it together well enough to finish the job. The landowner, a retired guvment worker, came out and started talking about machinery maintenance, how necessary it was to have everything maintained so it wouldn't fail, etc. I looked up at him with a look that said "If you weren't so old, I'd stand up, strangle you on the spot, and bury you down by the crick."
He was elderly, but perceptive. He abruptly stopped, muttered "Perhaps I spoke out of turn", and went back to the house.
A few minutes later, he reappeared, with a glass of warm, canned grapefruit juice. Ignoring how awful warm, canned grapefruit juice is, I accepted it, thanked him, and went about my business.
That was my last year on that field, and after paying him in the fall, I never saw him again.
RIP, Mr. Ross, and I hope you're tending to things faithfully, because we all know that nothing ever breaks if you stick to the maintenance schedule.
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