My life as a freelance lawnmower. (WARNING: Boredo
by Rabid on April 23, 2006Everyone else I know hates mowing their lawns, but for me, I love it. It's a kind of momentary solitude, because no one can bother you; you can simply concentrate on what you're mowing, and you can't even hear them over the sound of the mower anyways.
I mow everything. Well...almost everything.
I've never done golf courses, but I mow football, soccer and baseball fields; these are all nice and easy because I use a riding mower.
It's the places that I have to use a push mower that get nasty. My grandpa's house is especially bad, because the mower he owns doesn't have any guards on it at all, and patches of his yard are barren dirt. So, when I'm going over the dirt, shards of debris fly everywhere, and my legs end up having red lines all over them (unless, of course, it's jeans season, then they just wear down into shards).
There's also the people who have about four different flower beds in their backyards. That's always fun. It's like an obstacle course; there's always an overhanging bush that's guarunteed to have thorns all over it, but you absolutely can NOT push it out of the way, because that will ruin the visual effect of the garden.
Then there's the dry season. There's never much mowing to do, because the grass just stays short and practically dies. The most boring time of the year. You'd think for a town near the Great Lakes, we'd have a cooler climate.
So that's about it. If you've somehow made it this far in, I'd like to thank you in advance for not being angry for wasting too much of your life by reading this.
I did warn you, though.
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