4x4

4x4, originally uploaded by kidsideup.

This is my daughter trying to go "off-road" on her little 4x4. Well, it's not really a 4x4, it's powered by two legs that are way too long.
My dad would laugh and say that I deserve every minute of it.

When I was in high school I came home one day and when I got out of my truck the tire was making a hissing sound. I went in and told my dad that I thought the tire was going flat.
He came out to take a look.
I went inside to get a snack to bring out to help.
When I came back out there was a fairly small beat up birch tree laying in the driveway.
I stupidly ask, "What's that??"
The reply, from my father who can see through all forms of BS.
"It came out from underneath the truck."
Me, "Oh."

And you know what? That's really all he needed to say. I stopped taking my friend Laura home the "fun" way. On the four-wheeler trail. You don't have to follow all those pesky traffic rules when you're on the trail, right?

Really, that stupid tree ruined what I'm sure would have been all sorts of fun...