But My Tractor Works Mommy....

A little Vail family humor for you....After dinner tonight, I decided it would be a good idea to go outside and mow the grass before it rains for the next few days.  At 8 p.m., Isabella and I went outside and she jumped on her John Deere and I jumped on mine.  She has a little battery operated John Deere tractor with a trailer and she pretends to mow the grass as I am actually mowing it.  When she gets tired, she hops on with me and steers the way.

As I am making my last two rows and finishing up for the night, all of a sudden, my John Deere won't move either forward or backward.  And it just happens to be all the way at the back of the property.  Isabella comes up to me and says "What is wrong mommy?"  And I say, "Isabella, my tractor won't move either forward or backward, something is WRONG."  And with that innocent look, at a time that I am feeling sad that something is wrong with my tractor, she looks up at me with those green eyes and says..."But my tractor works mommy, you can use it if you want."
I smile at her and say THANK YOU HONEY!!!  I walk off to find Bob.  I tell him the news and muttering a few words under his breath, he says ADD IT TO THE LIST!  Just call John Deere tomorrow and have them come and pick it up.  I watch him try to get the tractor to work for about 10 minutes and then I walk away.  If I call John Deere, that means we are like 2 weeks without a tractor, which would feel like an eternity.  Not happening.  Nothing smelled like it was burning.  I knew I had not done anything wrong.  It had to be something simple.  Bummed.  It's like not having a wash machine or vacuum cleaner.  The lawn mower ranks right up there with them.

I put Isabella to bed and think to myself....I don't want to go to bed thinking about this tractor all night.  I don't want to have to call service in the morning.  What should I do?  GOOGLE it.  So I DO.   I am not so smart about changing oil, or sharpening blades, or lawn mower problems for that matter, but someone out there knows.....right??!!

So I RUN OUTSIDE (Bob really MAD at this point) and I say BOB...I think it might be a transmission lockout, is there some sort of lever on the back of the tractor that you can just push in and I can try it again??  He goes to the back of the tractor, pushes a lever in, I jump on and WA LAAAAAAAA the john deere works again.

CHEERS TO ISABELLA for making me SMILE in a frantic moment and THANK YOU to google for helping fix our John Deere!!