In which I am bested by a John Deere push mower.
Gramma told me to mow the lawn while she's gone. Dutifully I went into the garage yesterday, and got out the lawn mower. I started it up...
...and mowed the damn lawn for over half an hour before I accidentally grabbed the little bar under the handle and realized it was a POWERED mower!
It was like pushing a rock up a hill, swear to God. I'm even injured - I have a big nasty blister on my thumb. I couldn't figure out how my old grandmother could possibly drive the damn thing every week.
This is a TRUE STORY! You may laugh at me now.
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I can’t laugh. It sounds too much like things I have done.
Heh. 😉 -m
I too was dupified by the presence of the power bar on the lawnmower because as it was a rusty and old lawnmower and therefore just had, you know, extra parts sticking out of it.
And then one day it I beheld it in my hands and almost ran over various objects and neighborhood animals and children.
I know! The thing just TAKES OFF when you hold that bar thingy! -m
i’d laugh but it probably would’ve taken me longer to find that out.
It was entirely by accident. I felt like a moron, lemmie tell ya. -m
HA! Idiot.
Can I get a witness? -m
Rolls laughing. I took a vow to not EVER mow a lawn again after doing it for two years! Do some push ups or sumthin…. Muwah
That feature should be disabled to increase the probability that we all get some badly needed exercise.
I did the same exact thing with the man’s lawn mower. I grew up with a non-powered one so I didn’t really think about it. And I was the main one, as a kid, that did the mowing. So I thought nothing of it when mowing with the man’s mower. Until he showed me what the other lever did. He still giggles about it.