Aahzz
Habanero Evangelist
OK, so I'll be the first to admit - Mrs Aahzz and I are not the best at yardwork. We're generally busy, so it's not always the first (or even third) thing on the list. That having been said, our lawn gets mowed, if a little less than often, enough to keep up with our HOA rules, and isn't an overgrown eyesore.
They built some new houses behind us. One of the guys that lives there got a new riding mower - when he first got it, he cut our lawn, because he didn't have a lawn yet. Friendly enough, and it seemed like a guy with a new toy who wanted to play. As the summer went on, he'd occasionally mow our back lawn when he thought it was getting too long - OK, I don't like the lawn police, but he was doing a favor, so I neither encourage nor discouraged him. Besides, it was a really busy summer.
So today Mrs Aahzz notices he's over here weed whacking by our house. She goes out and talks to him, and says "I'm planning to mow later today, you don't need to do that". He says "I just want to make your yard look good" and keeps going. OK, now from the comment I'm irritated, but we were on our way out anyway - to get parts to fix our mower, actually. So we let it slide.
We get home, and our back lawn has been mowed...and our tomato plants have been transplanted to a new location in our back yard...and a small scrub tree that was all that was left of the forest that used to be behind us was cut down...and my kids' jogging tramp and riding tractor have been removed from my patio and placed at the front of my garage...and some bags of topsoil that Mrs Aahzz was using for an experimental gardening technique have been opened and spread about.
Now I'm PISSED.
SO far, too angry to go yell at him, and Mrs Aahzz is talking me out of it anyway - so I'll see how I feel in a bit. I'm particularly mad about the tree - yeah, it was a little brambly tree, but it was all that was left and I'd decided to give it a chance and see if it grew. Also, he transplanted the tomatoes on top of our tulip beds, so who knows if they'll be affected come Spring.
They built some new houses behind us. One of the guys that lives there got a new riding mower - when he first got it, he cut our lawn, because he didn't have a lawn yet. Friendly enough, and it seemed like a guy with a new toy who wanted to play. As the summer went on, he'd occasionally mow our back lawn when he thought it was getting too long - OK, I don't like the lawn police, but he was doing a favor, so I neither encourage nor discouraged him. Besides, it was a really busy summer.
So today Mrs Aahzz notices he's over here weed whacking by our house. She goes out and talks to him, and says "I'm planning to mow later today, you don't need to do that". He says "I just want to make your yard look good" and keeps going. OK, now from the comment I'm irritated, but we were on our way out anyway - to get parts to fix our mower, actually. So we let it slide.
We get home, and our back lawn has been mowed...and our tomato plants have been transplanted to a new location in our back yard...and a small scrub tree that was all that was left of the forest that used to be behind us was cut down...and my kids' jogging tramp and riding tractor have been removed from my patio and placed at the front of my garage...and some bags of topsoil that Mrs Aahzz was using for an experimental gardening technique have been opened and spread about.
Now I'm PISSED.
SO far, too angry to go yell at him, and Mrs Aahzz is talking me out of it anyway - so I'll see how I feel in a bit. I'm particularly mad about the tree - yeah, it was a little brambly tree, but it was all that was left and I'd decided to give it a chance and see if it grew. Also, he transplanted the tomatoes on top of our tulip beds, so who knows if they'll be affected come Spring.
