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My best friends are a soccer mom (actually little league) family of
four with both cars being Yukons.

There's a difference between having kids who play sports, and buying
what everyone else has because you're a dumb twit who can't make an
intelligent buying decision.


Well, the Yukons have nothing to do with sports and I'm not sure what
their argument for buying them was. I guess they just wanted them.


Bingo! They must be one of the crowd that says "We have a god-given
right to own anything we want, no matter what effect its use has on
society at large".


You may be giving too much credit where it's not due at all. I don't
think the idea of anything other than "Ooh, cool car, I want one." was
involved.


Hey....I'd love a string trimmer with a tilting head to do driveway
edging. But, there are already too damned many noisy little motors around
my neighborhood, most of them serving no purpose at all. A healthy 30
year old couple using a leaf blower for 3 hours to clean up under a
*MINIATURE* Japanese red maple that's barely larger than the plastic bag
they're putting its leaves in. Give me a friggin' break. Bend over and
pick up the leaves.

Pass the ammo!

Pushing manual mower would go a long way to help america's fitness
failure. It wouldn't hurt to rake a few leaves either.


My son and I can fill about 20 leaf bags per hour, using a rake, and a
plastic trash can with the bottom punctured so the bag doesn't get stuck
from the vacuum inside. It's a real stitch to watch the neighbors with their
leaf blowers, chasing 3 leaves all day. We don't mind, though. They're all
going deaf, which means we can practice our guitars with impunity. :-)