Mowing with child on your lap

My next door neighbor Dan cuts the lawn with his kids on his lap with a riding lawn mower. Hell I was 3 or 4 and my parent's friends kid, now an actual friend rather than little kid friends, Nick and I both rode on his parent's riding mower by ourselves. Unfortunately I live in suburbia so I haven't been able to do some things that others do, but they sound awesome and if I live in a place where they can do it, I'll let my kids drive around in a truck or run around blowing things up with gas or use firecrackers without supervision. Just a couple years ago, my brother and I each grabbed a row of them, took them apart so that we could light each one individually, then lit em and thew them at each other. Great fun.