cutting in reverse

[DerbyDad03]

I wasn't the one that asked. Mr. Birdbrain was.

[Stormin Mormon]

Stop the presses! A Usenet poster replied one line away from the intended quote. Call the question, have the misguided poster issue a retraction. Have Google Groups delete the thread. Start over. Defamation law suit. This is seriously .....oh, nevermind, it doesn't matter.

[bob haller]

you known as fred j mc call on the space boards? freds style is like yours.........

[Mr Macaw]

Nope.

[Mr Macaw]

You're the one that gets upset when we don't snip quite enough for your liking. So PKB!

[Mr Macaw]

My VW Golf did that. My neighbour's Vauxhall didn't, and it once vibrated itself from park to reverse, and mowed down her gates while she wasn't in the car.

[TimR]

.

I know of two.

When I was very small, the neighbor's kid was hit by a thrown stone and killed.

So that's one.

Because of that, my Dad refused to ever have a power mower, so I mowed the lawn with a manual push mower until I left the house.

that's two.

[Mr Macaw]

Which wouldn't have been helped by any kind of cutout switch.

A push mower can throw a stone just as easily. Neither of them would usually kill anyone. Probably just as likely to be killed by a fly entering your eye while cycling, causing you to be temporarily blinded and crash headlong into a tree.

How is it two? You weren't injured.

[DerbyDad03]

Whoosh!

[clare]

I run my mower discharging AWAY from cars, windows, and sidewalks where pwdestrians may be walking as a matter of courtesy.

[clare]

A "push mower" is not a "power mower" It works on muscle power.

[DerbyDad03]

Clare, just curious...

This is the second time today that you have responded to *my* response to Mr. Birdbrain with a comment that seems to be directed at him.

I don't mind hearing from you, but I'm wondering why you aren't responding directly to his (ridiculous) posts instead of mine.

[Mr Macaw]

And he said he used it, not inured himself with it.

[DerbyDad03]

That's because you totally missed the joke.

[DerbyDad03]

the lawn with a manual push mower until I left the house.

tenance worker was cutting the grass outside one of the classrooms when he hit a rock and the rock shot through a classroom window striking a teenage girl in the head. Of course there was a lot of blood because head wounds bl eed A LOT. The poor guy felt so bad that he'd hurt the girl that he almost quit his job. There was a policy change after the accident ordering that ma intenance workers or football players walk the grassy areas picking up debr is before a mower could be run through the grass. I didn't think lawn mowin g should have been going on when there were kids there during the school da y. o_O

I also point the leaf blower away (or up) when cars or people go by.

I was driving towards a guy who was using a blower this morning, wondering if he would stop as I approached. He did...I waved a "Thank you".

Some people are courteous by nature, others...not so much.

[Stormin Mormon]

Sorry to hear that.

On some further thought, I know an adult who lost part of a couple toes as a teen ager, mowing on a hill.

[Stormin Mormon]

Yes, that does sound much safer. Most of the time the discharge is light weight, short range lawn grass. But, it just takes one exception.

[Mr Macaw]

"It just takes one" usually never happens. Why are you so pessimistic?

[Cindy Hamilton]

Did the U.K. rename the body's pedal appendage when they switched to SI? It's still "put your best foot forward".

Cindy Hamilton

[Mr Macaw]

It was a joke.

Anyway, we haven't change to SI. We still use both F and C for temperatures, although younger folk seem to prefer C. All our road signs are in miles and miles per hour. We measure a car's petrol consumption in miles per gallon, yet it's dispensed at the pump in litres!