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[daw840]

You can get coring cleats, but you have to mow the lawn like you're Goose-stepping.

Someone seriously needs to video that and post it on youtube, just the mental image has me cracking up.:lol

 

[ALeperMessiah]

Because it makes the neighborhood look much nicer, therefore keeping everyone's home value up. That's why so many neighborhoods have HOA's. Do you wash your car? Same thing, takes about as long too.

neighbors can get annoying with this kind of shit. In the fall, I get home when it's already past dark so I don't have time to rake the leaves until the weekend. But every fucking time my anal-retentive geezer neighbors will rake it for me. It's nice that they do it, but at the same time it's kind of a guilt thing.

 

[snacknuts]

neighbors can get annoying with this kind of shit. In the fall, I get home when it's already past dark so I don't have time to rake the leaves until the weekend. But every fucking time my anal-retentive geezer neighbors will rake it for me. It's nice that they do it, but at the same time it's kind of a guilt thing.

My next door neighbor does this shit with mowing my front yard. Well, the half of my front yard that's adjacent to his.

I mow my own yard, but I'm definitely the dude with the shittiest lawn on the cul-de-sac. Everyone else is married with kids or grandkids and probably likes getting outside just to have sometime to do by themselves. I have more important stuff to worry about than my grass. But I mow it regularly, and though I don't enjoy it, it can be sort of mentally relaxing to go out with the push mower and just spend an hour focusing on making a nice set of rows.

 

[Tieno]

Yes, I mow my own lawn. I takes about 30-40 minutes every two weeks and I put on a podcast.

Hellll no. Finally convinced the wife that paying someone to mow the lawn is a good idea. Worth every damn cent.

I suck at manly things. I can draw comics and design video games. That's pretty much the extent of my abilities on this Earth. I don't feel bad about not being able to mow the lawn worth a damn.

Because mowing the lawn is difficult work? It's brainless and tedious (hence podcast), not something you need special man skills for. Or do you have some weird garden?

 

[btrboyev]

damn, how lazy are you when you can't even cut your own grass?

 

[Marvie_3]

Mowing your lawn is a privilege.

 

[eznark]

For those of you who don't mow your own lawn, do you ever change your own oil?

 

[Baker]

I'm pretty much in the same boat as everyone else. My neighbors on both sides are retired so I have to mow twice a week just to keep up.

Leaves can lick my asshole though. I hate doing them and my yard looks like a piece of shit right now (I have one of those stupid oak trees that doesn't lose leaves until February). Every time I get motivated to suck them up, it starts pouring rain. Of course my neighbor has already bagged his twice and mulch mowed this past week.

 

[VeritasVierge]

For those of you who don't mow your own lawn, do you ever change your own oil?

What kind of question is that? The 2 aren't related. I don't mow my own lawn because it's over an acre and I'm currently working on ridding myself of the gophers making it hard to keep a lawn. However, I've always changed my oil since my first car at 17. That has nothing to do with me not mowing my lawn myself.

 

[ALeperMessiah]

I'm pretty much in the same boat as everyone else. My neighbors on both sides are retired so I have to mow twice a week just to keep up.

Leaves can lick my asshole though. I hate doing them and my yard looks like a piece of shit right now (I have one of those stupid oak trees that doesn't lose leaves until February). Every time I get motivated to suck them up, it starts pouring rain. Of course my neighbor has already bagged his twice and mulch mowed this past week.

My wife and I are the only non-retired couple within half a street of our house, we're surrounded by people with nothing but free time on there hands. It's incredibly annoying when it comes to the yard stuff. Most of my neighbors mow their lawn every other day during the summer, I'm lucky if it happens once a week.

 

[eznark]

What kind of question is that? The 2 aren't related. I don't mow my own lawn because it's over an acre and I'm currently working on ridding myself of the gophers making it hard to keep a lawn. However, I've always changed my oil since my first car at 17. That has nothing to do with me not mowing my lawn myself.

Calm down there sparky, it was just a question. Curious to see how correlated the two are in this small little sample.

 

[CharlieDigital]

I mow my own lawn (and my mom's, and my mom's rental property), but I don't change my oil. @ $20, it's not worth my time to run out and pick up a filter, oil, and get messy and then have to pay a disposal fee for the oil or drive it over to the few places where they accept motor oil for recycling for free.

 

[VeritasVierge]

Calm down there sparky, it was just a question. Curious to see how correlated the two are in this small little sample.

I'm calm, buddy. Your question still makes no sense as the 2 have zero correlation to each other. Seems to me you were ready to bunch people who have others do their lawn with those that don't know anything about their cars and leave it all up to a mechanic.

 

[Smokey]

For those of you who don't mow your own lawn, do you ever change your own oil?

No.

I get a free car wash along w/ the oil change when I take it up the street!

 

[daw840]

No.

I get a free car wash along w/ the oil change when I take it up the street!

That's why you have so much time to practice at 2K9....I see...

 

[JBuccCP]

I'm never mowing a yard again. Hate it. Itch like crazy. If I ever get married and my wife makes us get a house with a yard it will be in Arizona where they have those dirt and rock yards. Our kids can play in the dirt like a poor African kid.

 

[eznark]

I'm calm, buddy. Your question still makes no sense as the 2 have zero correlation to each other. Seems to me you were ready to bunch people who have others do their lawn with those that don't know anything about their cars and leave it all up to a mechanic.

No, I was actually trying to figure out if it was laziness (it's cheap to have both done, so why do it yourself) or some sense of inability, or maybe just not giving a f'.

I'm guessing while lawn mowing may not correlate highly with changing ones own oil, the opposite is almost 1:1. My hypothesis was that if you change your oil you are much more likely to mow your own lawn.

You, you lazy bum, proved me wrong with your first post!

 

[Scotch]

Man, living in American suburbia sounds like a bitch.

We had a lawn in our backyard when I was a kid. Took me maybe 5 minutes to mow. Alas, no pool to jump into afterwards.

 

[daw840]

Man, living in American suburbia sounds like a bitch.

We had a lawn in our backyard when I was a kid. Took me maybe 5 minutes to mow. Alas, no pool to jump into afterwards.

Nope, suburbia is heaven. Just my honest opinion. I don't mind mowing the yard at all.

 

[snacknuts]

No, I was actually trying to figure out if it was laziness (it's cheap to have both done, so why do it yourself) or some sense of inability, or maybe just not giving a f'.

I'm guessing while lawn mowing may not correlate highly with changing ones own oil, the opposite is almost 1:1. My hypothesis was that if you change your oil you are much more likely to mow your own lawn.

You, you lazy bum, proved me wrong with your first post!

I mow my lawn but I don't change my own oil. It's not a lack of inability, as I changed it myself for years, but rather the fact that the premium I pay at the oil change place is worth not having to screw around with getting under the car, disposing of the waste oil, etc. Plus the place I get it done washes my car and cleans the interior (even the windows!) when you get an oil change, so it's honestly a pretty good deal.

 

[btkadams]

we've had someone cut our grass for the last few years.

 

[Runus]

I mow my own lawn and I change my own oil in my riding mower, but I pay someone to change my oil in the car. Just preference I guess.

 

[Ela Hadrun]

I haven't moved yet, or picked the mower but based on previous experience and the size of the lot I'm guessing 4-6.

With the rider I'm going to adjust heights and cuts to get that baseball field look. It's going to be sick. On weeks when I do that I figure it'll be more like a 12 pack lawn!

My uncle is a groundskeeper for a college, and he's in charge of this sort of thing. Whenever there's a game on he KNOWS THE NAME of the groundskeeper of whatever stadium it's at and spends the whole broadcast oohing and aahing over the cut. "Look at those lines! Do you see what he does with those angles? Wow!" It is pretty hilarious.

 

[VeritasVierge]

No, I was actually trying to figure out if it was laziness (it's cheap to have both done, so why do it yourself) or some sense of inability, or maybe just not giving a f'.

I'm guessing while lawn mowing may not correlate highly with changing ones own oil, the opposite is almost 1:1. My hypothesis was that if you change your oil you are much more likely to mow your own lawn.

You, you lazy bum, proved me wrong with your first post!

Hey, you don't live far from me so if you want to come over and mow my lawn for me when you get your superior equipment, please be my guest. I have a rinky dink little mower that's not going to cover the amount of land I own. Alot of the front lawn is also sloped. I don't mind letting professionals do that for me as opposed to my car which I'd rather oversee as much personally as possible.