I HATE LEAF BLOWERS
Jan. 23rd, 2013 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jeshyrARGH!
Idiot "gardeners" with leaf blowers come around here every week to generally spoil things and create pointless noise, ordered by the body corporate I guess. Every single time they send new ones I have to tell them all over again to please please *please* leave my lovely garden alone as much as possible. There's new "gardeners" today again ... and they just carefully leaf-blower-ed all the lovely leaf and twig mulch off my garden :(
These folks aren't people who are actually gardeners BTW which is why I am writing "gardeners". They are people who are employed to tidy up people's places, generally on rental properties which nobody cares about. They think that using those miniature chainsaw-type things for chopping off any and all growth that protrudes into the driveway is "pruning". I do not like it. They also appear not to have known what mulch even is, let alone what it's for or why anybody might want it on their soil... when I asked the guy to stop messing up my mulch he said innocently "no I'm just blowing the leaves away". Sorry mate, those leaves and twigs ARE my mulch.... ARGHLE.
In addition, technically my garden is not "mine" because it's on body-corporate controlled soil, so I can't legitimately complain about anything they do either. Wish I had my own house with actual garden I could keep idiots out of!!
And it's meant to be awfully hot tomorrow ... my poor garden :(
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Idiot "gardeners" with leaf blowers come around here every week to generally spoil things and create pointless noise, ordered by the body corporate I guess. Every single time they send new ones I have to tell them all over again to please please *please* leave my lovely garden alone as much as possible. There's new "gardeners" today again ... and they just carefully leaf-blower-ed all the lovely leaf and twig mulch off my garden :(
These folks aren't people who are actually gardeners BTW which is why I am writing "gardeners". They are people who are employed to tidy up people's places, generally on rental properties which nobody cares about. They think that using those miniature chainsaw-type things for chopping off any and all growth that protrudes into the driveway is "pruning". I do not like it. They also appear not to have known what mulch even is, let alone what it's for or why anybody might want it on their soil... when I asked the guy to stop messing up my mulch he said innocently "no I'm just blowing the leaves away". Sorry mate, those leaves and twigs ARE my mulch.... ARGHLE.
In addition, technically my garden is not "mine" because it's on body-corporate controlled soil, so I can't legitimately complain about anything they do either. Wish I had my own house with actual garden I could keep idiots out of!!
And it's meant to be awfully hot tomorrow ... my poor garden :(
r
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Date: 2013-01-23 03:11 am (UTC)or perhaps some of those automated gun turrets from the film "Aliens"? no, they'd shoot at everyone who went past.
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Date: 2013-01-23 09:35 am (UTC)I don't mind small people!
OTOH signs might be more practical ... Perhaps "beware killer raptors under mulch"? ;)
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Date: 2013-01-23 11:07 am (UTC)a little over the top? i don't think so.
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Date: 2013-01-23 11:31 am (UTC)If you change the bottom line to "Ricky will cry" I promise to put it in the actual garden and provide photographic proof :)
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Date: 2013-01-24 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-25 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-01-23 10:58 am (UTC)Oh FFS! *headdesk*
Did you have the spoons to enlighten/stop him?
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Date: 2013-01-23 11:30 am (UTC)I WANT MY OWN GARDEN!