"Jock" wrote in message A leafblower
rage...http://tinyurl.com/2sab2p

What are the feelings of people regarding these monstrosities? I reckon
they are a bane on society.


I couldn't agree more about these abhorrent things......yes I have one, and
I use it very sparingly, preferring a rake, a broom and paying a gardener!

However every weekend the whole street is treated to hours of these as the
two men who live in houses over the road are both lawn obsessed and loathe
each other with passion. Each, in turn, spends an average of 4 hours loving
their lawns. They mow lawns that should take 20 minutes in about an hour,
and then proceed to whipper snip edges for about 2 hours, alll the while
attempting to play Auld Lang Syne on the throttle of the urban bane. Then
in order to clean up the almighty mess that they've made out comes the
blower vac and we're all treated to another hour of Auld Lang Syne as each
individial errant blade of grass is blown onto a previously clean roadway.
Heaven forbid that either of these perpetrators pick up a broom or rake!

It is widely believed that the world will end if they should mow and blow
at the same time as each other.

To add insult to injury one of these persons has a tree which as it sheds
its leaves, they blow directly into my garden (think wilderness rather than
manicured). It must annoy him that I decline to waste energy picking up his
leaves, instead waiting for the opposing breeze to take them back from
whence they came. This same person is very much the reason why bore
owners in Perth are now facing restrictions - each summer evening at 6pm on
the dot(and prior to restrictions it was all year long - rain hail or shine)
he is out beginning a watering ritual that can take more than 4 continuous
hours. No - his retic is not on a timer, it is all manually operated thus
he knows that he is watering, watering watering. Given that more than 50%
of the water falls on the street (easily seen by the bore stain) one has had
ample cause to wonder at the state of his brain cell. One has also had
ample time to ponder if it had ever dawned on this individual that less
water might mean less mowing on his deeply spongy grass.

Ahhh...........feel much better now

Joanne in Perth