Whrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. The sound is low and throaty and loud. It is full of vibrato. It penetrates my walls. It is one of my neighbors blowing leaves again. This is the fourth weekend in a row!
It’s not that I don’t want to be a good neighbor. I do. I appreciate his dedication to task. But doesn’t he realize leaf blowing now is like peeing in the ocean?
At the moment leaves are drizzling. A few weeks from now they’ll be pouring off the trees. Think lemmings jumping of a cliff. The extra little bit he’d leave by not blowing today wouldn’t even be noticed!
Is this my sentence for the next month, listening to this leaf blower’s leaf blower? When’s sunset?
He should also break out his snowblower to pre-empt any accumulation.
Leaf blowers are the stupidest invention in the history of humanity. They are polluters in every way (air, noise) and a total waste of time and fossil fuel. Why they are legal is beyond me. Every time I see (or hear) one, I want to go postal on the moron who thought it’d be a good idea to buy one and inflict it upon the rest of the world.
(Ask me how I really feel … 😉
Nothing beats a good rake and the excellent exercise benefit that comes from its use. Leaf blowers are proof that not everything that can be invented should be invented. And so it goes on the imperfect planet we are trapped on…
Who decided lawns need to be leaf free?