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Lawn Mowers and High Gas Prices

April 25th, 2006 at 04:46 pm

Since gas is so expensive, I am going to cut my lawn with, ummm, I don't have a sickle...or a machete. I can use a hockey stick!! Yeah, I can slap shot the tall grass all over the yard, it would be a good work out, and I save money by not firing up the lawn mower. The weed whacker is electric, but what fun is that. Landscaping isn't land scaping unless there are hockey sticks, a helmet, or those big pruning shears involved.

The neighbors need to look out their window, see me smashing the shizzle out of my yard with my number 66 Mario Lemieux stick and say well at least it is not as bad as last year when he...and then stop talking to themselves to avoid being as crazy as I am. This of course is all fun and games until I run down the cliff in my back yard and start hacking the weeds down while yelling 'he shoots;he SCORES!!' every few minutes. This makes me wonder why I haven't heard of an increase of cases of siphoning. Back in the day, kids used to siphon gas out of their neighbors cars because they couldn't pony up a buck or two to get the fuel to take them to the drive-in with a trunk full of their friends. Now that buck or two would be lucky if it bought enough gas to get you to the next gas station to buy more. Can it be true that people have not resorted to stealing gas, or is it just that the news broadcasts spend all of their time on stories about what name Brad and Angelina whould give their baby?

Posted in Rants | 6 Comments »

6 Responses to “Lawn Mowers and High Gas Prices”

  1. contrary1 Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 04:55 pm 1145984130
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    I've been wondering the same thing........ We've had a gas can come up empty, but that was our fault for leaving it out.

    I've been tearing lawn out and planting things that don't need to be mowed.... thinking about goats too!

  2. LuckyRobin Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 05:03 pm 1145984610
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    We have a gas cover that you can't open from the outside on one of our cars and the other one we park so that the gas cover is right outside our bedroom window, so we have a better chance of hearing anyone trying to siphon gas. I am going to buy a locking gas cap for it this payday or next. With prices hitting $3.10 yesterday, I am not taking any chances.

  3. PrincessPerky Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 05:06 pm 1145984807
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    AHa! I can let the grass grow and chalk it up to frugality! (as opposed to lazyness!) Hello tall weeds Smile

  4. Thrifty Ray Says:
    April 25th, 2006 at 06:20 pm 1145989200
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    and the hockey stick method is cheap entertainment for the neighbors!! Maybe you could sell tickets to watch!!

    Golfers could use golf clubs, croquet mallets for the lawn gamers, if you let it get tall enough, a baseball bat would be fun too....Once you open your mind, the possibilities are endless!

    I too have wondered about the gas thefts...we live so far out in the country, it wouldnt be feasable to come out here to steal gas...

  5. PRICEPLUS Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 05:52 am 1146030736
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    Someone told me the Vermont Country Store sells push mowers of the manual type. It is just like the old days. Plenty of exercise and no use of gas. Themn you rake! Sure beats the hockey stick method. Or as they used to say at the Garden, "shoot the puck Barry".Smile

  6. nanamom Says:
    April 26th, 2006 at 01:55 pm 1146059740
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    I like the goat idea! There are pygmy goats that don't take up much room!!

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