Tin Cans Dancing

The things we did for entertainment back in the old days! I remember... three young boys riding on a hay wagon being pulled by a tractor driven by their father on a bumpy dirt road on the way to the hay field. My two brothers and I were amusing ourselves by jumping off when we would see a tin can by the side of the road. We would jump off, grab the can, and toss it up on the wagon. The cans would bounce merrily around and we tried to see how many we could get on the wagon before we arrived at the field and had to get to work. We had no trouble catching up to the wagon and jumping back on. Once my youngest brother saw a can on the other side of the road. He jumped off and ran across and came within inches of being hit by a car coming from the opposite direction. He got a scolding from his two brothers for not looking first, and I don't think we collected any more cans that day.