Posted by rrlund on April 08, 2019 at 17:08:36 from (69.36.62.131):
Something happened this afternoon that was about as bazaar as it can get. I was hauling manure a mile and a half north of here up a gravel road. A quarter of a mile north of the house,there's a hill that goes down to a lake,then the road curves around the lake a little,then up another hill.
First load there was a square five gallon cat litter bucket turned upside down by the end of the guardrail where folks put their boat in to go fishing. There was a car sitting just a little ways up the hill on the other side of the curve,within sight of the bucket. I don't know how any of your minds work,but I had a little thought of IED and people in a car waiting for a target to set it off.
I got up close to the car and the drivers side door started to open. A young gal,I'd guess mid to later twenties,wearing a tank top,reddish blonde hair done up on op of her head,green eyes,got out. There was a guy sitting in the passenger seat. She stumbled a little so I knew she'd been drinking or something. I opened the door of the tractor and she stepped up in front of the tire.
I asked her if something was wrong. She talked pretty slow,but not slurred. She asked me if I was plowing that field. I said no,I own it but I'm not plowing it. I reached up to turn off the radio and she got a look of total defeat on her face and she said "Don't push the button". I don't know if she thought I was gonna call the cops or set off whatever was under that bucket.
I asked her again if she needed any help. She teared up and said she was just having a real bad day. I asked her what was wrong (again) and she told me she was from North Carolina,joined the army and now she was up here. She had tears running down her face and said she missed her dad and the farm. I was getting kind of choked up,but at the same time a little nervous about the guy in the car. He slid over in to the drivers seat.
I asked if that was her husband. She said "Yes....unfortunately.". I said "Well,he can help you". She looked down and said "He doesn't understand". Then she asked me again what I was doing. I told her I was hauling manure up the road where I was gonna plant oats. She said we have a lot of fields around here,a lot bigger than back home. I told her my wife's family lives in Kentucky and I knew what she meant,not many big fields in the mountains.
She asked if my wife drives the tractor. I told her not much,but she's good with the cows. She said ya,the cows aren't much work,they take care of themselves and said she really missed driving the tractor. I told her I'd be working ground in a week or so if she wanted to drive back around.
I want to say this is where it really got weird,but the whole thing already was. looked up at me and said "you're young". I laughed and said "I'm 64". (I rounded up two months) She said "You are not!". I told her ya I am. She said "You're a very attractive man.". I thought here we go,get the old guy flustered,the guy gets out with a gun and I get shot because all I have on me is about eighty cents in change,a jack knife,lighter and a pen. He's gonna be frustrated that he's not getting anything and kill me.
Obviously it didn't happen,but she told me her name was April. I told her my name and asked if she lived around here then. She said yea,she lived in town. I said Sheridan? She said "how did you know?" I told her it was only a mile away. I was getting nervous and wanted to get out of there,so I told her maybe I'd see her in town some day and that I hoped she had a better day. She said "This helped".
When I drove away,she was standing by the open door and it looked like her husband was just trying to keep her from getting in the drivers seat. When I cam home empty,the car was still there but nobody was in it. When I was loading the next load,I saw them come down the road. They stopped on the corner and a local guy who grew up right up the road saw them and pulled around the corner and talked to them for a few minutes,so must be he knew them. They left in opposite directions.
I don't know what was going on,if she had PTSD and didn't dare drive past that bucket of if a 70 degree sunny day with the grass greening up just had her super homesick for her dad and the farm. I still feel choked up from her crying,was scared from the guy who was sitting in the car and pretty darned flattered with what she said to me.
I guess if you live in North Carolina and your daughter is in Michigan,give her a call,she misses you.
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