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The carpet engineer!

“Well I was speechless. However, she soon appeared with a kid’s plastic Massey Ferguson pedal tractor for Christmas for my niece Olivia. I had a MF pedal tractor when I was a similar age and I spent hours on it around our garden before I graduated to the ride on lawnmower. The tractor came in kit form and not wanting to have to assemble it on Christmas day it was decided it would be done in advance. I opened the box and poured the contents out, a bag full of screws and other weird things fell on the floor along with the paper instructions and a lot of plastic parts. After a few minutes I muttered to myself that real tractors were easier to put together than this, much to my parents’ amusement. However, after a while it was assembled and ready to go – unfortunately due to my size this is one tractor I couldn’t test drive.”