Blow Drying the Lawn

[darryl gesner]

I had the funniest thing happen to me Friday. I was mowing a new account for an elderly woman. I could see here peering out the window at me almost the whole time I was there. Well, after trimming I fired up the blower and blew off the driveway and walks as usual. I had trimmed some long stuff along the edges and there were some clumps in the lawn from heavy growth, so I started selectively blowing the lawn. Suddenly she bursts out of the house with her arms flapping. I shut down the mower and went over to her to see what the problem was (I thought it was too loud for her). Then she asks me if I was going to charge extra for blow drying the lawn like her hair dresser does for her hair, because if so she doesn't want it. It was all I could do to not burst out laughing in her face and I politely told her it was included in my price. She said, "Oh, good", and went back inside.

I couldn't help bursting out laughing every time I though of it for the rest of the day.

[MOW ED]

You should have told her that you only charge extra if you shampoo the lawn first!!:p

[MikeLT1Z28]

LOL! that's a new one. guess it's a good thing you weren't putting talc, err, i mean lime down on it afterwards!

[Runner]

Great~!!! Thanks for opening up yet aNOTHER task for us to now take on. I can hear it already throughout the senior community. "But my NEIGHbor's lawn service blow dries their lawn when they're done!" :rolleyes: :D

[Evan528]

:laugh:

Thats halarious!!!! Thanks for the good laugh tonight!!!! I needed it!

[ProMo]

hahahahahahahahaah

[SCAPEASAURUSREX]

That was too funny............LOL

[mdb landscaping]

next thing they will want is green highlights:D

[GarPA]

man that was too funny!!...had an older lady ask me last week if I could "brush out" the tire tracks when I'm done!!.....these gals seem to be spending way too much time getting their 'blue hairs' worked on...

[SLS]

It just goes to show that, contrary to popular believe, hair rinse and acid perms DO seep in through the follicles and effect the brain. :D

[darryl gesner]

Maybe I can sell her a dye job for the lawn; looking a little brown near the roots.

Runner has a point. Maybe I should have told her what I was really doing, but like I said, it was all I could do to not laugh in her face. She really thought I was blow drying it. Actually, that was the second time she came running out. The first time was to make sure I didn't run over her catnip, which was in a stone-edged bed along one of the borders. I'd be looking for a new mower if I tried to mow there.

[lawnworker]

If we could charge per sqruare foot what those hair stylist charge we would be doing good.:rolleyes: