Small town memories

I have many memories of this little town. We used to vist now and then when we lived in Springfield. One of ours visits stands out in my mind.Way back then the highway to here was real narrow and bumpy. My brother and I loved to go visit Grandma & Grandpa. Grandpa was a real cut up and grandma was a great cook. They were great fun. We would get Grandma laughing so much when we were playing uno, that she would spit her teeth out. Once she spit them out over the side of the boat when we were on the lake of the ozarks. The water wasn't very deep,and my Dad was able to go down an get them. Anyway. The thing that stood out. We were on one of our visits,I was 3 I think. My Dad and Grandpa went down to the shed to look at Grandpas new Allis Chalmers garden tractor. 1.It being a tractor and 2. It was Grandpas. I had to be there. Well,Grandpa pulled the tractor out of the shed, and Dad drove it around the garden a little.By the time Mom,me,and Grandma got down to the shed. Dad had made it back to the shed. Dad shut off the tractor and him and Grandpa started talking about what was going in the garden next year. This was in the late 60's, so the tractor had a muffler that looked like a coffe can. Being 3 I had no idea it was a muffler. I thought that a coffe can did not belong on my Grandpas tractor. So grabbed it. It didn't come off. But all the skin on the inside of my hand did. My hand is throbbing now just thinking about it. There was no lasting damage. My hand is fine now. But I will never forget that pain. Later on I would hurt myself alot more. Those are different stories.