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I had an elderly retired neighbor who was all about chemical treatments for his lawn, mowing patterns and all other sorts of curb appeal stuff. I could generally get along with him about most stuff and liked helping him do gardening or shovel snow. But he would get unhinged about our lawns. This guy would act like the dandelions in my yard were an abomination.
Lawn fixations are one of the deepest core values of boomers in a way that transcends generation. Xers and even some older millennials that I know are also lawn fixated, sometimes doing petty shit like cutting down native plants in neighbors' yards and bragging about it later because it'd be too much trouble to get them legally punished for it.