Do you Mow?

[Lawn277]

Here is a classic: I pulled up to a customers residience the other day. Im standong by the trailer, loaded, 2 mowers, trimmer egder, ect. A guy pulls up and says" do you mow". I couldnt answer, I was about ready to fall down laughing. I wanted to tell him no I just pull all this equiptment around for show. But I composed myself and got 2 accounts. Is it me or was that a really dumb question?

thanks
Rick

[lawnagent]

I was mowing for a body shop the other day. A customer drove up and asked them if they painted cars and trucks!:D

[Gravely_Man]

Hopefully that was just his seemingly silly opening line to start some dialogue with you. Yes some people are clueless but you did get 2 accounts from it so I would laugh all the way to the bank.


Gravely_Man

[Hamons]

Here is a better one -- I'm backing a Toro Dingo off the back of my trailer the other day and a lady stops and asks me how much I would charge her to do her yard with that?

It took us a few confusing sentences before I figured out she thought that the Dingo was a mower. She was disappointed when she found out that I don't mow.

So maybe it was this lady that was so confused by her question to me that she thought she better ask first.

:p

[The Lawn Boy Pro]

Man I LOVE them Dingos!!! they're the bomb when it comes to smaller landscaping!!!!!!:blob4:

[redbull]

Originally posted by lawnagent
I was mowing for a body shop the other day. A customer drove up and asked them if they painted cars and trucks!:D

Here's your sign

[Green Pastures]

Happens to me all the time. You just have to bite your tongue and answer politely.

Makes me want to scream sometimes though.

[LANDGUARD]

The way some of these mowers look these days, they probably did not know if you were a lawn co.

[tiedeman]

I run into the same problem regarding the mowing...I think that it's just a way for the customer to break the ice and find out without embarrassing themselves.

[The Lawn Boy Pro]

Originally posted by LANDGUARD
The way some of these mowers look these days, they probably did not know if you were a lawn co.
Which type of guys mowing? the ones with no shirt on and a pair of jeans with so many holes in them you can see the guys jokey, or the ones in polos and Kakis? :eek:

[Bluesteel]

"Do you mow?"

‘Nope. I just drive around, shift some gears, and make personal appearances here and there.’

Most of the time I just stare straight-faced at those people. Until they say something else brilliant. LOL

[Auroris]

Reminds me of that scene from the movie Dumb and Dumber;

Harry, "Are those your skis?"

Beth, "Yup."

Harry, after considering her answer, "Both of them?"

[Bluesteel]

Does the water go all the way around this island?

[Roger]

Yes, I've had the same question asked of me many times.

The most favorite place is the local gas station. Since last September, I've picked up three good new customers, while filling my gas cans and w/b on the trailer. "Do you mow grass?" only starts the conversation, but it has resulted in some good accounts. Filling my gas cans at the service station has proved to be good advertising! But, I don't have any more room in my schedule.

No, I don't have a sign on my truck or trailer, no, I don't have uniforms, and no, I don't have holes in my pants. I just am a plain old guy (62) who wears Dickie pants and shirts.

[DLCS]

Originally posted by Bluesteel
"Do you mow?"

‘Nope. I just drive around, shift some gears, and make personal appearances here and there.’

Most of the time I just stare straight-faced at those people. Until they say something else brilliant. LOL


LMAO, thats a good one:p

[GraZZmaZter]

Redbull

Isnt that jeff foxworthy?

...speaking of redbull. I was going to get on at the local speedway the other day for the first time. The guy said 1.99 please!!! I said holy cow, for that price this stuff should give you wings and point you toward the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. He laughed the whole time i was returning it to the cooler and getting a soda.

[sheppard]

My first summer in this business this lady pulls her van up next to me as I am cleaning out a large flower bed wiht my equipment on my trailer not 25 ft away.

She rolls down her window and says "Do you do yards?!"

I'm sweating bullets in the N. Florida sun, waving off mosquitoes, got dirt and debri all over me, have a couple of blood lines from some wicked smilack vines and I say (with a big smile) "Why Yes! What would you like?"

It went down hill from there. She was asking for her elderly neighbor. Something then and there said "RUN!". Had to find out the hard way.

Cordially,
S.

[mike9497]

i had a commercial property call after seeing me mowing the place next door to them.they asked do i mow lol lol dumba$$e$

[Sooners]

Originally posted by Lawn277
Is it me or was that a really dumb question?



I wish a few more would stop me and ask that dumb question. I could use the extra business.

[Expert Lawns]

I have had a few people that stop in the road while i'm mowing, to ask me about prices etc.....and they just start yelling out of their car window while the mower is on and my headphones are on. what the F? I have a customer that will walk out of the house and start talking while he's walking towards me. again, mower on and headphones on. by the time i stop, slide the idle down, turn it off and hop off the mower, he is done with his 3 minute gab session. because of his moronicness (is that a word?) he has to repeat himself. i just dont' get some people. COMMON SENSE
:D

[GraZZmaZter]

Expert

My part time guy does the exact same thing. I tell him he needs to lay off the dope.

[onemancrew]

Some people have a fuuny way of breaking the ice. LOL

[Auroris]

Originally posted by Expert Lawns
......I have a customer that will walk out of the house and start talking while he's walking towards me. again, mower on and headphones on. by the time i stop, slide the idle down, turn it off and hop off the mower, he is done with his 3 minute gab session......
:D
It seems that this happens to me about 2-3 in a week. Someone (usually a client) has to approach me as I'm operating the equipment WITH my earplugs in and start talking.

As soon as I see the figure coming my way I stop, shutdown or idle, and now have to take an earplug out and ask for them to please "say again".

On the last new job I actually told the guy that I do wear ear protection and cannot hear him when he "hollers".

What REALLY gets me all fired up is when I am mowing with a WB or trimming and someone taps me on the shoulder from behind! GEEEZ! :blob2:

[brucec32]

Originally posted by Lawn277
Here is a classic: I pulled up to a customers residience the other day. Im standong by the trailer, loaded, 2 mowers, trimmer egder, ect. A guy pulls up and says" do you mow". I couldnt answer, I was about ready to fall down laughing. I wanted to tell him no I just pull all this equiptment around for show. But I composed myself and got 2 accounts. Is it me or was that a really dumb question?

thanks
Rick

That's nothing. I was sitting on my mower, on a lawn, MOWING, with my rig full of other mowers parked there, when a lady walked up from down the street and asked "do you mow lawns?"

I told her I was booked up already. I have a very sensitive idiot detector and figured she wouldn't work out anyway.

Reminds me of the scene from "Animal House" where Flounder walks up to the guys at the frat party playing cards and asks "you guys playing cards?"

I give them the same look they gave him.