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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 02:52 PM
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3:51 PM on a Saturday and someone in my neighborhood is mowing their damn grass
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:22 PM
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1. Um, I don't get your outrage
What's the problem?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:30 PM
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4. Read the OP again
3:51 PM on a Saturday.

Prime napping time.

:grr: :grr: :grr:
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Book Lover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 05:42 PM
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9. Ah! Gotcha
Yon bastards!
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 05:53 PM
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10. see, i took mine at 1:00 p.m. nd there was no interuption with the lawn mower. nt
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 10:29 AM
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18. HA! You think you have it bad. I live right behind a school with a track and
field competition all weekend, this week-end. I just know that public address speaker is pointed right at my house!
:grr:
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:25 PM
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2. Could be 7:30 AM on a Sunday.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:31 PM
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5. It could
But it wasn't.
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IcyPeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:28 PM
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3. at least it smells good.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:34 PM
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6. Grass needs to be mowed.
Edited on Sat May-22-10 04:35 PM by Call Me Wesley
I believe, that, if there's grass all over the place, we, as a human race, would suffocate and cease to exist.

We would have grass instead of nose hair and it will kill us, although, there might be some exceptions I just made up, which, I'm afraid, won't include you. Ivy will cover your corpse, and we will form a circle of honor and sing 'Kumbaya.'

May the Great Lawnmower be with you. At 3:51 PM. On a Saturday. It will be great honors.

Do you like Gladiator movies?
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:35 PM
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7. It does not need to be mowed at 3:51 PM on a Saturday
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 04:43 PM
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8. Funny you said that,
because, mowing grass on a Saturday at 3:51 OM is now a motorized gas guzzing industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

But every historical statement and legitimization itself mows within a certain relation to history and tall grass.

Every man is born a lawnmower and dies as a single one.
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Lindsey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:13 PM
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11. I get the prime napping time but I grew up with my Dad mowing
the lawn on Saturday Afternoons.:shrug: However, that was a long time ago so maybe things have changed. In any case, I'm sorry it screwed up your nap. I'm a nap person myself and I don't like interruptions either.
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-22-10 09:24 PM
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12. Pour quick dry cement on them
That always seems to work in cartoons
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MicaelS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:15 AM
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13. Situations like this are why
Earplugs were invented.
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Lucian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 12:42 AM
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14. I'd rather have someone mow at 3:51 pm instead of 7:30 am.
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darkstar3 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 01:06 AM
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15. Alert for calling out a fellow DUer
Edited on Sun May-23-10 01:07 AM by darkstar3
I was mowing my lawn at 3:51 PM today. :)

(As if you could get any sleep around here in the afternoon...damn kids...)
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tango-tee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 06:36 AM
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16. I'm a nap person myself and I can commiserate
I live along a very busy street, and along that street are two large churches. May thru August being the most popular months for weddings, I have given up on taking naps on Saturday. Reason: It is a (deplorable!) custom over here that once the wedding party drives away from the church in however many cars, until they get to whatever hall/restaurant all of these cars will continually blow their horns.

Last Saturday, there were five separate wedding parties driving down the steet. Five. Between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Horns blaring.

I finally stuck my head out the window and screamed something about hoping they would get divorced before the friggin' wedding was even paid off.
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GoCubsGo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 10:13 AM
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17. Me, too.
Friday night, the children of the now-deceased woman who owned the house behind me decided to throw a party. They stared around 7 PM. I called the police at around 11:30 to get them to quiet it down. They did--sort of, for about 45 minutes. They finally knocked it off at around 2 AM, after one of the boys next door drove around and asked them to knock it off. I got about 3 hours of sleep that night. Wasted the whole damn Saturday because I was too tired and brain-dead to do anything.
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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 11:03 AM
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19. Grass needs mowing.
As far as I know, there's only one standing rule: Not before 10AM.

So naptime notwithstanding, :nopity:

I wish I could nap and get done all the crap I need to get done on a given weekend, alas, such are not the conditions of my life.
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taterguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 04:50 PM
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24. Now you know there's another Standing Rule:
No outdoor use of loud equipment when I'm trying to take a fucking nap.
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ElboRuum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 07:50 PM
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28. Survey says,,,
BZZZZT.
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 11:07 AM
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20. Should they wait until 4:20 until they mow the grass?
:shrug:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 11:20 AM
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21. Neighbor gripes at ME about a 3:51 PM mowing...
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...and I solve that problem real quicklike by duct-taping
two MagnaLites to my lawnmower and introducing him/her to
the 3:51 AM mowing.
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I am nuthin' if not neighborly.
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 01:07 PM
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22. My next-door neighbor mowed his lawn three(3) times yesterday
At about nine in the morning, aroudn 12:30, and again at about 4pm. He's one of those stereotypically competitive suburbanite types; not only has to be Doing More Suburbia Things around the house, but has to be seen doing it.

Pretty much every day it's nice out he mows the lawn, regardless of whether it needs it or even if the blades can reach the grass anymore. On especially nice days he'll do so multiple times. Does the same thing with snowblowers in the winter.
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Old Troop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 04:36 PM
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23. Are they using a push mower?
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 04:51 PM
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25. Thanks for the reminder
I'm off to go mow mine now that you mention it.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 09:25 PM
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26. What the Hell are you doing napping at 3:51 PM on a Saturday?
Saturdays are for life, dude. Nap at work.
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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-23-10 09:32 PM
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27. A friend woke up Sat at 7:00 AM to someone mowing her neighbour's lawn. She put on her housecoat
and marched over to the offender and shut him down for 2 more hours.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-24-10 08:42 PM
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29. I could've been much worse, "Not a Sight For the Faint Of Heart, Ladies And Gentlemen...."
As The Magistrate noted:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=9373471&mesg_id=9373471

Imagine looking out the window and seeing THAT!
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