If you want to come and help on my farm, please watch this first

Apparently, kids don't watch Tom and Jerry anymore.  There have been enough smacked faces on my farm that watching this is now a prerequisite for touching my gardening tools.



and if you want something a bit more modern



Seriously - this is a real thing.  don't leave tools smack side up!  

I hesitate to admit this, but I did that exact thing with a rake once.  It was leaning against a planting mound, which tilted the tines enough for me to step on them easily.  The rake was in plants deep enough to hide it well.  I had just enough time to turn my head before the handle of the rake slammed into it hard enough to make my ears ring.  A wholly unpleasant experience, but one that taught me the lesson of not leaving tools lying around like that in a single event.

My dad was a master mason, and often used a tool he called a comealong. He called that move "the comealong trick."  "Did the comealong trick? Think you'll pay more attention next time?" No matter what he told apprentices, I think I'm the only apprentice he ever had that didn't brain themselves on a job. (I had done it in the yard enough times to know better!)