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  On 3/11/2025 at 4:16 PM, honolulu horn said:
Or maybe have a heart any buy a mower for your elderly parents that doesn't have a pull string start. I would've suggested just paying someone to mow for them, but my 80-year-old FIL would sooner commit seppuku than not mow his own yard. 

When my ancient gas mower finally fell apart, I bought a rechargeable electric mower. It rocks. Can’t believe it took me that long.
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  On 3/11/2025 at 4:28 PM, Brisketexan said:


When my ancient gas mower finally fell apart, I bought a rechargeable electric mower. It rocks. Can’t believe it took me that long.

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What did you get? I bought a Dewalt that I've never been happy with.

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  On 3/11/2025 at 4:28 PM, Brisketexan said:


When my ancient gas mower finally fell apart, I bought a rechargeable electric mower. It rocks. Can’t believe it took me that long.

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Exactly what I was thinking, and what I'll do when the time comes. For now, I still have enough energy (and a small enough yard) to use the Stone Age mower. 

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  On 3/11/2025 at 4:28 PM, Brisketexan said:


When my ancient gas mower finally fell apart, I bought a rechargeable electric mower. It rocks. Can’t believe it took me that long.

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Once upon a time my mom had an electric mower that was not rechargeable. You had to mow with the thing plugged in. Guess who she asked to mow for her?

After the first time mowing and constantly moving the cord around, making sure not to mow over it, I was done. I told her that if that was what it took to save the world, it wasn't worth saving.

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  On 3/12/2025 at 7:01 PM, TrashMaster G said:

Once upon a time my mom had an electric mower that was not rechargeable. You had to mow with the thing plugged in. Guess who she asked to mow for her?

After the first time mowing and constantly moving the cord around, making sure not to mow over it, I was done. I told her that if that was what it took to save the world, it wasn't worth saving.

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What was awkward was that her vibrator had the same setup.

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  On 3/12/2025 at 7:03 PM, Kennythetiger said:

She might have been hoping that you’d accidentally run over the cord. 

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One of my outside extension cords has a couple of splices in it, from using the corded hedge trimmer.  Twice in 25 years, not bad.

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  On 3/12/2025 at 7:49 PM, nnm said:

One of my outside extension cords has a couple of splices in it, from using the corded hedge trimmer.  Twice in 25 years, not bad.

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Until I went to battery mine was twice per year at least.

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  On 3/12/2025 at 7:01 PM, TrashMaster G said:

Once upon a time my mom had an electric mower that was not rechargeable. You had to mow with the thing plugged in. Guess who she asked to mow for her?

After the first time mowing and constantly moving the cord around, making sure not to mow over it, I was done. I told her that if that was what it took to save the world, it wasn't worth saving.

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I had one of those corded electric mowers. Lasted 6 months before I hired a gardener. 

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I make my gardeners use these:

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100% carbon free,  Your rechargeable, self-righteous mower basically runs on coal when it's cloudy and calm.

Not this one.  I feed my servants organic, free-range vegan food.  All told, my estate is actually carbon-positive.  The bigger I make it, the more I save the plane.

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An online friend in California posted this very touching story yesterday….

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The coolest thing happened yesterday. Terry and I were having lunch at Olive Garden.  There are pictures on the wall from Italy, two were of businesses.  I was using Google translate their signs when a guy walks by and asks if everything was alright.  He was the general manager, a young guy of about 30.  We start talking about Italy.  He says Olive Garden sent him there back in January.  If you’re a GM long enough they’ll send you!  They spent a week at the winery that provides their Chianti.

Then he told us this story.  His Great Grandfather was in the US Army and was shipped to Italy.  He was killed in battle his first month there.  His wife back home learned she was pregnant, but he never knew.  He was buried in a military cemetery in Italy.  This trip was the first time in 80+ years anyone in the family would visit.  They found the cemetery, they found the grave.  They cleaned the gravestone and photographed it and spent some time there with his Great Grandfather.

When he returned home he visited his Grandmother and showed her the photos of the grave of the father she never knew.
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