Doug Kanter wrote:

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:42:59 +0000, Wayne.B wrote:

I can't claim to speak for the entire public but here are some of my hot
buttons:

Really tough noise enforcement.

As I get older, I'm surprised at how intrusive I find loud noises. Things
that never used to bother me are now an annoyance, loud boats,
un-muffled Harleys, or, my personal favorite, the Sunday mower
marathon.

I can sort of put up with the mowers, but it's the leaf blowers that get to
me. In my previous residence, my neighbor had a driveway one car wide and 30
feet long. He'd get out the blower and spend an hour chasing down 17 blades
of grass. Meanwhile, when my son was 6 yrs old, he could broom off our
driveway in under 5 minutes, and it was 2 cars wide, 50 feet long.

Maybe this is why we're a nation of fatsos. Too lazy to lift a broom.

You'd really love me. I don't own a gas blower, so I use the tractor to
blow the grass clippings that find their way on the driveway. But at a
length of over 50 feet and wide enough to do a U-turn in, not including
the drive which goes around back to the "big" garage, it's a bit of
asphalt to clear.

"there isn't a job that can't be made better with power tools"

Dave