Wet leaves and leaf blowers
The streets of city and 'burb are still filled with leaves -- they fell late this year and, if homeowners didn't rake them up before December, they became damp and heavy, hard to pick up and bag. I've notice guys from landscaping and lawn-maintenance companies out with leaf blowers this week, attacking for hours at a time big piles and long slicks of wet leaves on driveways and in gutters. It's as if they're trying to blow-dry them before raking them.
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I know a young man in his fourteenth month of home ownership. He shoveled his leaves into a rental pick-up truck bed and took them to the dump. Now, he's done.
When he was an industrious adolescent, he bought a leaf blower to aid him in his quest for money. He would get frustrated with clients who called him back for a second collection. He thought it was poor planning and poor use of resources for them to have the leaves collected more than once. He understood that he was the finacial beneficiary, but as an adolescent male, he also knew better than his adult clients.
Posted by: Bruce Robinson | December 13, 2007 6:39 PM