After working all day pushing brush and boxblading, I put the tractor away at dusk and returned to my house to discover that I did not have my wallet. My mind reeled because I had been over 3/4s of my 33 acres during that day, and the wallet
could have slipped out of my pocket anywhere. Luckily I had enough gasoline to get to work the next day. I had no driver's license, ATM cards, ID so I could cash a check, military ID card, or credit cards. It was like I had nothing and no identity.
I drove to work the next day (70 miles0 without my wallet. I only had $10 in my wallet and not enough gas to get back to my property, so I called my dad and asked him if I could borrow a few dollars. I carefully drove to my dad's house and then back to my property, getting there about 2:00 pm. It was fall and the woods were covered in leaves, but I searched and searched every location I had been. Finally I remembered that I had done some boxblade work on my pond dam late in the day. I drove out the dam by the pond and there was my wallet laying a few feet from the water and folded just like it was in my pocket, nothing was even disturbed or out of place. Whew! Suddenly a huge weight was lifted and all that anxiety just went away. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
After that, I make sure I remember to remove my wallet before doing tractor work. It's just not worth it to go through that again. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
