Some of my most vivid memories attach to Thunder Bay, where I was born and lived my early years.
A recent trip back did not disappoint. I was driving serenely down the street when I passed a brown Suburban and saw something that my brain could not quite assimilate. Or I thought I did.
I looked over my shoulder, and my daughter, who was in the back seat, confirmed it. “That woman was driving topless,” she said.
Ah, the freedom of it. Of course, in Ontario they allow that sort of thing.
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Not that I’d try it myself, you understand. I once read that women of a certain age shouldn’t wear shorts, and I suspect the same thing applies to walking around in public topless, the pull of gravity being what it is.
Come to think of it, there’s some men could benefit from reading that article.
This is one area where farm women have it all over their city cousins. We have all this space, you see, and could go topless for days, if we wanted to, without anyone to see and make an issue of it.
It might put the cattle off their feed at first and send the kittens scurrying for cover, but they’d get used to it. I kind of think, though, if I tried it, that I’d keep a t-shirt handy. Wouldn’t want to scare the fuel man, after all.
And, it seems to me, if enough farm women decided to shuck their tops, we would have a whole lot of spinoffs.
The statistics folk could have a field day figuring out how many farm women of a certain age versus city women of the same certain age go topless. It could also give rise to a whole new set of farm safety concerns. Farm safety is a growth area now, and we farm women could help it along.
At ag safety conferences, gone would be the traditional papers on working safely with pesticides and operating the farm tractor for maximum benefit and efficiency, taking into account the safety of the operator.
Instead, we could have papers on safety concerns for the topless feeding of livestock and how to clean out a combine safely when working topless.
Given topics like these, I predict attendance at farm safety meetings would increase greatly just with people coming to see the slides.
And, society being what it is, it wouldn’t be long before there were websites for topless female farmers and newsletters and maybe even a glossy magazine on the newsstands. Just another contribution to the economy by farm women!
