aviinterra
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Be forewarned, kind of a rant/observation of my town and perhaps a tad too long.
While the summer is upon us, it is normal in suburbia to hear the constant whine of landscaping machinery droning away from the early morning hours until that fateful hour when all work stops. This is rewarded by a useless, pointless, but beautiful green lawn that is the pride of the owner.
But come autumn, the leaves are falling, the air is chiller and the world braces for winter, the machines keep turning. It is at this very time, when most think of turkey and presents, that the unstoppable, hated, and loud leaf blower makes it's presence known in all New England towns. It all starts in the morning, sharply at 7 am. You sleep in comfort on that extra day off from work, brought to you by some national holiday. And while dwindling time away in a world of dreams, you are brought sharply back to reality by the noise of a leaf blower. Not one, but two, or more. You stand up, dizzy and startled, unware of what you are doing, and run to a window. Behold the sight of two landscaping trucks at your neighboors house, and an army of five men, whose status is quasi-legal, wielding blowers, mowers and those munchy machines that eat all the leaves. All of this takes hours and several coffee breaks that NEED loud hoots and curses and various shouts at random. Your kids, if you have any, are crying right now. Finally, after lunch, the chore is done, the company packs up and drives away. The lawn across the street is stunning: it is still green, perfectly trim and cut, the single speck of green on the whole street. And then a gentle wind blows and the sun peeks out from the grey clouds, and lo and behold, it is covered with leaves again.
You know what will happen the next day, a neighboor two houses down the road will order the leaf blowers to come in, as will the guy on the right who has given up fighting with nature.
And our silly, noisy, ways that have put smog and noxious gases into the air, as well as our pride, are all nullified by nature in five mintues time as specks of brown and orange quickly cover the grass.
And I ask why? Why is a leaf blower even in existance? Would it not be more efficient, green, and healthy to pry your butt off the couch and rake the leaves yourself? Ahh, the irrationality, and we claim to have advanced so much.
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