COME ON.............................BE HONEST!

[HOMER]

Just wondering if it's me or if everybody has a tendancy to ride by their freshly cut property and think they must be the best guy in town! There has to be some room for bragging on yourself when you see a flawless lawn with nothing out of place...............man I'm good! I rag my helper all the time and tell him we must be the only professionals in town, everywhere we go there is something we've done that stands out. I get this proud look on my face like "I'm bad", can't nobody compete wi dat!!!!!!!!!I know other folks are doing good work but you have to be proud of what you do. The one thing I like about what I do is there is instant gratification, when your done with it you can ride off knowing you just "hooked" that place up!

If our grass striped like some areas of the country I'd really get the big head!!!! I know I'm not the only one that feels this way or ya'll wouldn't put your pictures up for everybody to see. I think we're all a bunch of big headed people and we should be. If you half a** something then run like crazy when you leave it, that way maybe nobody will know you did it! I tend to take my time, get a drink out of the cooler, wave at the passerby staring at one of the best in the business. I know others are doing this too...............got your truck all cleaned up.................equipment looking good........and don't even let another cutting crew come by!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then all you want to do is slam them and take a bow and say ya BOY, compete with this! Must be too early, got to get ready to go "hook" somethin' else up. Man.............I think my head is bigger than my monitor right now! I must be delerious or something, I guess I need to quit, but you know what I'm talking about. Must be cause we're just a bunch of bad (fill in the blank) son of a GUNS!

I got to quit now, heads leaking something, about to explode.

Ya'll have a good day.
And do good work, you don't want to be laughed at by the competition!

BIG HEADED HOMER

[John DiMartino]

I dont take it as far as you,but I do admit to riding by and taking that way home with friends after work and saying wow,that looks good-without telling them that I do that lot,just to get there opinion.If they agree-then it goes to my head,just a little,then i go on Eric's site and it puts me in my place.I do however,in my opinion do the best work in my area.I guess we all do.

[HOMER]

See, I told ya!

BHH

[John DiMartino]

When im all done and about to drive away-that is part of the payment to me-with the money of course.When it looks perfect,It makes you feel good about what we do.

[Runner]

I definitely agree with the instant gratification concept. It's called; taking two steps back off the curb, and saying "Yeah!":)

[Eric ELM]

When we get done on Friday, we see about all of our lawns as we drive home and I call that ADMIRATION TIME :D

[RYAN]

Sometime I will take a trip around the block and look at it again as I drive by in admiration, especialy If I have laid down some nice stripes. Hope the customer looks at it the same way I do

[GroundKprs]

I am very proud of my lawns too, Homer. But it can even get better. Like the time I was loading up in front of one of my best, and the lady riding by on a bike hollers out "A work of art!"
Wife said I'd have to sleep on floor that nite, head wouldn't fit in bed.

[Scag48]

I like my stripes and the job that I do and I know the customers do. My jobs don't get seen much by the public. A couple of them in nowhere-ville and the other is at the outskirts of town. I mow my piano teachers lawn. I mow it, 2 days later I come back for my lessons and there it is, looking great. I also look at competitors lawns to see what theirs are lookin' like. There are actually a couple guys in town that are pretty good. I know one of them and talk to him when I see him. There are also a couple out there that give us a bad name. There has to be a few like that or we'd all be the same.:)

[Lawn Cruiser]

As I drive away I always like to check out how good the lawn I just did looks. And look for areas that I need to do better next time, but if I see a piece of grass out of place as I drive off I stop and fix it before I drive totally away.

[jrblawncare]

Yes, I have done it...sometimes just to check up on or to pick my own work apart...most of the time flawless...I have even stopped going by to pick up a paper I missed!!

[HOMER]

I knew there were more of ya'll out there, go ahead, brag on yourselves for a change!

BHH (BIG HEADED HOMER)

[little green guy]

Maybe when i learn how to use a computer i'll figure out how to put some pics of my work up so yall could see how it's done. I AM THE BEST IN THE GREAT GARDEN STATE!

[Evan528]

AS i drive away i am ussually driving with my head turn around admiring the work i just did.

[luckylawnboy]

I also feel the same way about my work. I feel that I am an artist at what I do. I also have great admiration for Golf courses. I have been mowing for since I was about 12 and now I am 21 and in collage. I had a thought about what I wanted do for the rest of my life, and after being in Buisness Accounting Major I realised how much I love to mow, and how much I hated Accounting. Still I wanted to go to college, so now I am a Turf Science major. I have plans of working a PGA Tour Golf course, as a superintendent, or a Major Athletic facility groundskeeper. My lawns are as perfect as thay can be and as the people are willing to spend. I wish I could be out there two to three days mowing, but that is not realitic with any of my customers. I think I will stay with commerical lawn care till I get out of college and then try to step it up a notch on a golf course. I will definatly take a loss in income in the begining, but I am looking for the future. I have the talent to create magic, so I want the whole world to be able to see what I do, not just a neiborhood.

[Lawnworks]

I try my hardest to do quality work, but at the same time I want to be DEPENDABLE. Quality and dependablity are two characteristics that have high profit potential. A few of my competitors arouse my competitive spirit and make me want to put them out of business. I will admit some of my competition are nice, and I enjoy talking to them. I love it when customers brag about my work, but what really ticks me off is when I do an almost perfect job... or really I do everything in my ability not to scalp and it still scalps. The customer will not put sand down to even it out (that is the problem) and still blames it on me. I think I am going to charge them for the aggravation factor.:)

[Richard Martin]

Yeah, I <i><b>know</i></b> I do a nice job. I guess that's why it takes me so long compared to others. But then I also get more per lawn than others too.