Monday, July 1, 2024

Yard Waste

Maybe we use the word “hate” too often. The kid doesn’t hate broccoli, they just don’t like eating it. Nobody actually hates Kenny G. or Nickelback, they’re just staking out their cultural real estate. But I really hate leaf blowers, especially the internal combustion ones that produce more noise than a Top Fuel dragster in order to accomplish less useful work than a push broom. Those really loud blowers are usually operated by lawn care professionals hired by homeowners who could do the work themselves with a manual lawn mower and bamboo rake but they’re at the gym. For exercise.

2 comments:

Crotchety Dave said...

... and the leaf blowers don't actually do anything productive! All they do is blow leaves out of one individual's yard into their neighbor's yard ... or into the street, where they will then blow into the neighbor's yard. I guess that's a more useful distribution because then there's (im)plausible deniability when the leaves go into the neighbor's yard.

Dave Maleckar said...

Well, yeah