This morning a guy two streets over from my house decided to start using his leaf blower at 7:00 am. I was up already and out walking Seamus, but it struck me as particularly inconsiderate of him. You could hear the buzzing all over the neighborhood. It sounded like someone was running a massive vacuum cleaner.
His house is at the end of the street, and as we made our loop through the common area, we came upon him in his shorts (the weather was actually quite lovely this morning) and watch cap, wielding the leaf blower, and he had the nerve to give us the stink eye as we went by.
If I were him, I’d have taken a moment to consider which one of us was violating county noise ordinances and pissing off the neighbors, and which one of us was quietly and law abidingly walking her dog through open space, armed with a bag of fresh poop. And then maybe I’d have smiled politely and nodded instead of giving her the narrow eye. I’m just sayin’ it might be the smarter move to make.
That's funny, around here, in the middle of summer (not now obviously, but in summer), most folks mow their lawn and do their tractor work between 6 and 8:30.
When I was young I could ignore it, when I had babies I threatened to kill peopel, now I"m up anyway so what does it matter......but man I do remember this drunk dude riding his riding lawn mower around one morning abou 3:30...I called the cops, it was quite hysterical...just that once.