so, i love to mow. that is my absolute favorite smell in the world.... fresh cut grass. i even like it when it's been a day or so and it's been hot outside and the grass has a slightly different smell... sun warmed day old cut grass. lol. and mowing is a good exercise for me cause i usually don't have time to exercise on a normal day. and it looks good... i like seeing our field all freshly cut.
here's the problem. we have neighbors. bless their hearts, they're retired. i'm sure they are looking for things to do, which is why they will randomly cut branches on my trees or cut my grass. i've even talked to the dude next door about how much i love to mow, and he'll do it anyways. at first it was nice, and it still is... but after repeated attempts of trying to tell him politely to let me do it, i have given up, until about a month ago, that is.
so i come home from work like always and i park in the yard, like always. keith gets home after me but he leaves after me in the mornings, too. so i park beside the driveway until he gets home and then i move the truck and park behind him. anywho, i park and look in the yard and see that it's been mowed. now if dude next door will just wait until saturdays when i have a day off, i will mow. i don't mind. i like planning on doing it on saturdays. so this wasn't at all unusual seeing the yard mowed on a weekday. the odd part was when i noticed the motorcycle cover had a big hold in it. and i don't mean big like you could fit a softball in there... i mean big enough t
o slip it off the bike completely. the cover is about 2 years old, so it's a little shabby and had some small holes near the handlebars, which keith fixed with some tape. ghetto, but the holes were small, so it's not horrible looking. (this pic does no justice. after a lot of folding and taping, it looks semi-ok.)
so then keith gets home and sees it. he's furious. not only is there a huge human sized hole in his cover, but the bike has also been moved. it hasn't run for about a month, so there is some grass near it. not much cause it's the driveway, but you can clearly see an indention where the bike was. so he gets in the shower and rants about how we should mow our own sides and take care of our own shit. i've been saying this since they first mowed our side. i was furious at the time. then when they started cutting branches on our side, i was beyond furious. dude's excuse for mowing 'it looks better when it's done at the same time.' his excuse for cutting healthy tree branches on my side 'they got in the way when i mowed.' really... really?! my tree branches got in your way when you mowed my side. nice.
this whole time, i try to think that they are just bored and doing something nice for a neighbor. but when keith saw that they had touched his stuff, he was furious. so, he was ranting in the shower when i hear a knock at the door. i go see who it is, and lo and behold it is dude next door. he says he was riding his riding mower when he bumped into keith's bike. he said it fell on his mower and it didn't fall on the ground. keith doesn't care that it fell. he's dropped it before. it's a heavy machine. it happens... he's curious as to why dude was so close to his bike in the first place. so dude didn't even acknowledge that his bump had ripped the cover horribly. his thoughts on the matter were thus 'well, i saw that some of the tape might have come undone.' there was no tape anywhere near where the new gaping hole is! there is a small amount near the handlebars, before his 'bump.' i come back in and tell keith that at least dude said something about it.
so now keith tells me that i should go mow but to only mow our side. i did this about a week ago. i was home on a weekday and i mowed our back yard and the field. i didn't mow any of our shared front yard cause the grass really doesn't get too bad up there. so keith came home early that day and washed the camaro. as he was washing, i was taking pics of him. then dude next door came over and started asking keith some questions about his wife's car. it won't run. and a week ago she hit a mailbox when she was driving. so dude leaves to buy something keith suggested and keith starts saying how he felt bad for them and how he should mow the front yard for them. i was still in my mowing clothes, so i did it. so the only part i didn't end up mowing was their small backyard half. it's under some trees that have thoes road apples. i was kinda glad to not mow that area.
here's the kicker.... not 2 days later, dude mowes! now, i just mowed 2 days ago... you can't even tell where he is mowing! why he couldn't just get out his fancy schmancy riding mower and mow his backyard only is beyond me. why he felt the need to re-mow... fuck, i dunno. it will be a week since anyone mowed or remowed on saturday... if he doesn't do it today or tomorrow, i will be mowing our side and our side alone on saturday morning. i work 40 hours a week; he's retired. if he wants it to look better when both sides are mowed at the same time, then he can wait until i come home and mow and then he can do his side the same day. i'm fucking tired of playing the game and watching to see what he will do. i've tried talking to him multiple times, just short of saying "we'll do our side and you do yours." i've told him how much i like to mow and how i don't mind pushing our mower around. he didn't need to cut my poor trees to fit his stupid riding mower. i can do it fine without hurting any of my trees.
but now i have the benefit of keith getting mad for my cause. now he wants to flat out tell dude next door that we'll do our own side and they can do their own side. he's better at confrontation than i am. we both have the temper for it, but i'm not very confrontational.
we'll see what today brings... heat index of 105.... sure dude, go mow.
here's the problem. we have neighbors. bless their hearts, they're retired. i'm sure they are looking for things to do, which is why they will randomly cut branches on my trees or cut my grass. i've even talked to the dude next door about how much i love to mow, and he'll do it anyways. at first it was nice, and it still is... but after repeated attempts of trying to tell him politely to let me do it, i have given up, until about a month ago, that is.
so i come home from work like always and i park in the yard, like always. keith gets home after me but he leaves after me in the mornings, too. so i park beside the driveway until he gets home and then i move the truck and park behind him. anywho, i park and look in the yard and see that it's been mowed. now if dude next door will just wait until saturdays when i have a day off, i will mow. i don't mind. i like planning on doing it on saturdays. so this wasn't at all unusual seeing the yard mowed on a weekday. the odd part was when i noticed the motorcycle cover had a big hold in it. and i don't mean big like you could fit a softball in there... i mean big enough t
o slip it off the bike completely. the cover is about 2 years old, so it's a little shabby and had some small holes near the handlebars, which keith fixed with some tape. ghetto, but the holes were small, so it's not horrible looking. (this pic does no justice. after a lot of folding and taping, it looks semi-ok.)so then keith gets home and sees it. he's furious. not only is there a huge human sized hole in his cover, but the bike has also been moved. it hasn't run for about a month, so there is some grass near it. not much cause it's the driveway, but you can clearly see an indention where the bike was. so he gets in the shower and rants about how we should mow our own sides and take care of our own shit. i've been saying this since they first mowed our side. i was furious at the time. then when they started cutting branches on our side, i was beyond furious. dude's excuse for mowing 'it looks better when it's done at the same time.' his excuse for cutting healthy tree branches on my side 'they got in the way when i mowed.' really... really?! my tree branches got in your way when you mowed my side. nice.
this whole time, i try to think that they are just bored and doing something nice for a neighbor. but when keith saw that they had touched his stuff, he was furious. so, he was ranting in the shower when i hear a knock at the door. i go see who it is, and lo and behold it is dude next door. he says he was riding his riding mower when he bumped into keith's bike. he said it fell on his mower and it didn't fall on the ground. keith doesn't care that it fell. he's dropped it before. it's a heavy machine. it happens... he's curious as to why dude was so close to his bike in the first place. so dude didn't even acknowledge that his bump had ripped the cover horribly. his thoughts on the matter were thus 'well, i saw that some of the tape might have come undone.' there was no tape anywhere near where the new gaping hole is! there is a small amount near the handlebars, before his 'bump.' i come back in and tell keith that at least dude said something about it.
so now keith tells me that i should go mow but to only mow our side. i did this about a week ago. i was home on a weekday and i mowed our back yard and the field. i didn't mow any of our shared front yard cause the grass really doesn't get too bad up there. so keith came home early that day and washed the camaro. as he was washing, i was taking pics of him. then dude next door came over and started asking keith some questions about his wife's car. it won't run. and a week ago she hit a mailbox when she was driving. so dude leaves to buy something keith suggested and keith starts saying how he felt bad for them and how he should mow the front yard for them. i was still in my mowing clothes, so i did it. so the only part i didn't end up mowing was their small backyard half. it's under some trees that have thoes road apples. i was kinda glad to not mow that area.
here's the kicker.... not 2 days later, dude mowes! now, i just mowed 2 days ago... you can't even tell where he is mowing! why he couldn't just get out his fancy schmancy riding mower and mow his backyard only is beyond me. why he felt the need to re-mow... fuck, i dunno. it will be a week since anyone mowed or remowed on saturday... if he doesn't do it today or tomorrow, i will be mowing our side and our side alone on saturday morning. i work 40 hours a week; he's retired. if he wants it to look better when both sides are mowed at the same time, then he can wait until i come home and mow and then he can do his side the same day. i'm fucking tired of playing the game and watching to see what he will do. i've tried talking to him multiple times, just short of saying "we'll do our side and you do yours." i've told him how much i like to mow and how i don't mind pushing our mower around. he didn't need to cut my poor trees to fit his stupid riding mower. i can do it fine without hurting any of my trees.
but now i have the benefit of keith getting mad for my cause. now he wants to flat out tell dude next door that we'll do our own side and they can do their own side. he's better at confrontation than i am. we both have the temper for it, but i'm not very confrontational.
we'll see what today brings... heat index of 105.... sure dude, go mow.
