The boy who liked tractors

*(Sorry for any typos, I'm French!)*

Once there was a little boy. For his 2nd birthday he was given a little tractor with pedals. He loved it so much that he started being obsessed with tractors.

By his fourth birthday, he already had 30 tractors of different sizes and colours.

As soon as he learnt how to read, he started filling his shelves in his bedroom with books about tractors. Harry Ferguson was his hero. He knew everything about his life and the tractors he invented.

His room had become a temple dedicated to tractors. Carpet, duvet, cushions, lamp, curtain, posters: everything was covered with tractors.

For his tenth birthday, his parents brought him to a farm for an incredible surprise. He was going to drive a real tractor with the help of Joe the farmer.

What a thrill! He had never been that excited in his life. They started driving together. The little boy was so happy. This was the best day of his life.

After driving for an hour, Joe the farmer said: "Now i'm going to let you have a try on your own".


He brought him in the middle of a field and let him drive on his own.

Slowly the tractor started moving.

"Well done!" said Farmer Joe. "Try going a little bit faster now"

The tractor went faster but something was wrong. The motor was doing a strange noise. Suddenly the brakes were not working anymore. The inevitable happened: they crashed into a tree and the tractor turned over. The boy was ejected from the tractor and saw Joe the farmer die, crushed by the weight of his massive tractor.

The boy broke his arm and was sent to the hospital. He was traumatised. When he arrived home, he took off of his wall all the posters, threw away anything with a tractor on it and no one ever mentioned the word tractor around him ever since.

The boy grew up. He turned eighteen. One day, he was invited at a party. He drank a few beers, chatted with some friends and talked with a pretty girl. She was tipsy and after half an hour she made a move and started kissing him.

Suddenly someone shouted "something's burning in the oven!" A girl took out a black pizza from the oven and put it in the bin. The room was full of smoke.

The couple stopped kissing. The pretty girl said: "we can barely see anything! There is so much smoke!"

"Don't worry, said the boy, I'll fix it" He got up and opened his mouth wide and started sucking up all the smoke from the room.

Everyone was looking at him. "Man, how did you do that?"

"Oh I am an ex tractor fan".