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Honestly shocked to see so many people here demonizing people doing their outdoor physical labor in the summer during the coolest part of the day.
"They could just do it in the afternoon."
Motherfucker, we have released so much carbon into the atmosphere that it's 103 degrees with 75% humidity, at 3pm, I'm not getting a fucking heat stroke so that you can exist outside in perfect silence at 9 in the morning.
It's the idea that the labor is unnecessary. My mother loves staying with me because the elderly community she's in hires a landscaping crew that comes through at the crack of dawn and wake her up. When coupled with the fact that plants and grass do best when cut in the evening it really drives down the idea that suburban lawn people can be a nuisance and aren't considerate of anyone else.
What constitutes a "suburban lawn person," anyone with a lawn? So anyone with a house (i.e. almost every person close enough to hear another "suburban lawn person" mowing)? I don't want to mow my lawn it's a chore that I have to do to avoid having all my neighbors mad at me and to avoid fines from the city; I'm not a "lawn person."
I'm not sorry that the underpaid lawn servants who indirectly work for you mother do their physically intensive outdoor summer work when it's safest for them and not when it's most convenient for her.
Yeah, I think your idea of suburban lawn guy is pretty close to what I was saying. I have a tiny patch of lawn because I live in a dense city.
This is the real issue, even if someone WANTS to be totally silent, leave their lawn to grow wild, towns and HOAs don't allow that in many areas. Why is it so necessary to have a prim and proper lawn as long as it isn't interfering with other people's lawns? Sure they have to look at it, but I don't understand why natural growth should be seen as ugly.
Yeah it's absolutely horseshit. I'd like to replace it all with clover because it's supposed to require minimal care and I believe it's better for bees, but it also spreads on its own apparently and again, don't need neighbors yelling at or suing me.