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Living Next To a Lawnmowing Neighbor

The lawn mower next door has ruined my day. Droning on and on and on louder and uglier than a bee’s buzz. Constant droooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooning. Nonstop from seven a.m. to seven p.m. Every Saturday. Saturday after Saturday after Saturday after Saturday. Today the lawnmower finally stopped. And it is Saturday! A police officer stopped by to tell me the sad news. My neighbor had been murdered; I pretended I did not already know.

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Ilene Bauer

Date: 5/30/2021 12:24:00 PM

ha! love the ending! ~ around here, it has been made into a law that leaf blowers may not be used except for certain hours in the fall because of noise and exhaust, but i don't think it applies to lawn mowers...

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/30/2021 3:45:00 PM

This guy cannot drive a car - he is in his sixties or seventies but has epilepsy so he mows all day long from sun up to sun down so he can ride around in his mower.

L Milton Hankins

Date: 5/29/2021 6:08:00 PM

LOL. OMG, you murdered your neighbor??? But, I know the feeling, and I have been tempted.

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/30/2021 3:46:00 PM

It grates on me. I moved to the country to get away from noises like this.

Darlene De Beaulieu

Date: 5/29/2021 3:59:00 PM

Hello Caren, oh! Who murdered your neighbour? Oh the lawn mores are loud how I wish they had a silencer on them When someone is mowing the lawn I am unable to listen to my music. Hugs Darlene

Darlene De Beaulieu
Date: 5/31/2021 10:20:00 AM

Hello Caren, i am that way with the lawn mower I can not hear my music. It is annoying. Hugs Darlene

Caren Krutsinger
Date: 5/30/2021 3:46:00 PM

This is so annoying to me, I can barely hear my birds